Class Recording Policies

Class and event audio and video recordings are the intellectual property of Loyola Law School and the speaker/professors.  

Please be aware that by attending any event, class, or activity on the LMU Loyola Law School campus, you consent to being recorded. Recordings may be used for educational or archival purposes by the Law School.

Class recordings are available for streaming only. Downloading class recordings is not permitted, except as an approved disability accommodation (see Special Situations & Requests).

Recordings may only be viewed by authorized, registered students who have access through a course home page or have been given explicit permission by a professor, such as through approval on the Class Recordings App.

Class recordings may not be downloaded, captured, saved, edited, or duplicated by any means, including download tools, browser extensions, screen capture, AI capture assistants, or mobile device cameras/software.

Downloading recordings without an approved accommodation, or sharing recordings with anyone who is not authorized, inside or outside the school, is strictly prohibited.

Class meetings that take place outside the regular schedule are not automatically recorded. A request must be submitted by the professor or Faculty Support to the Instructional Technology Department to schedule the recording. Please submit these requests at least 14 days prior to the session taking place, especially for sessions on days the department is closed, e.g. weekends and holidays. This is to ensure compliance with staffing policies.   

These special recordings will be made available through the official course home page of the class requested per the professor’s selected release policy. 

Professors decide how they want to make their class recordings available. All recordings are released for streaming only, regardless of the professor’s release policy.

To view the different policies, please view our Classroom Policy page below:

The Instructional Technology Department audio records all courses listed by the Office of the Registrar.

To accommodate, all classrooms and seminar rooms are audio recorded Monday through Friday, 8am-11pm. However, access to course audio recordings is not automatic.

Some professors may choose to have their courses video captured. 

If so, recordings will be released in accordance with the professor’s chosen recording release policy as described in the section titled Availability – Release Policies section above.

If a student experiences a serious illness, family emergency, or has an absence to observe a religious holiday, they may contact the professor to request that the class recordings be made available, regardless of the professor’s original policy. If the professor is unavailable, the student may contact the Office of Student Affairs.

In addition, some professors require that a student receive verification and approval from the Office of Student Affairs before the professor will permit recording of a class be released due to an absence or other unforeseen circumstances.

If a student believes that access to class recordings, including downloadable copies, is an appropriate accommodation for a disability, the student should contact LLS Student Accessibility Services. Information on the request process is available on the Disability Accommodations page.

Downloadable recordings are provided only with approval from Student Accessibility Services. Professors and Instructional Technology staff cannot authorize downloads independently. Accommodation information is kept confidential.

Students approved to download recordings must use them only for their own study, may not share or distribute them, and must delete all copies after the final exam for the course.

Except as an approved accommodation, students may not create personal recordings (video or audio) of classes, including with phones, recording devices, or note-taking and AI applications that record audio. Official class recordings are the only recordings of classes permitted.

Students who believe recording class is an appropriate accommodation for a disability should contact LLS Student Accessibility Services.

For more information, contact:

213-736-1111