Hints, tips and info from Instructional Technologists
Studio is a great tool for short lectures, assignment reviews and giving students a face to a lecture. If you have been using it for the past semesters you might want to gather specific recordings into a Collection.
You can create collections in your Canvas Studio library. Creating a collection allows you to organize your media library and share specific collections and media with other users. A Collection also makes it easy to share multiple videos with another course, faculty or students.
A few questions you’ll find answers to:
Desktop recordings in Canvas are done in Studio, which is accessed from your main menu. You now can organize your recordings by using using Collections. Collections, like folders, make organizing and finding media easier. Collections can also be shared, inside Canvas, with other ECU users. Neat tool to use!
Where is it?
When using Studio for recording lectures the screen can get full quickly with recordings. One tip is to name your recordings with the Course name or abbreviation ie. OET8000, the date and perhaps the topic. You can also review which recordings are in which class by clicking the hamburger menu next to Studio and then selecting your course.
Since Studio is a bit of a standalone portion of Canvas, it is not clear sometimes how to share with students. You can share the recording by clicking on the snowman dots. Alternatively you can share to a Module by clicking External Tool and scrolling to Studio. You can embed into a page by clicking the second V on the toolbar and again select Studio.