Welcome to Byte-sized Canvas!
I'm Helen Graves and today we're talking about how to make adding videos to your course
super simple.
Using a variety of modalities beyond text to present your content not only aligns you
with item A8, Student-Centered Teaching, of the OEI Course Design Rubric,
it's also a powerful way to engage your students' brains and appeal to multiple learning preferences.
Trouble is, many instructors are not always clear on the best way
to add video and audio into their course.
Hence the topic for this episode of Byte-sized Canvas. ;-)
OK, first let's talk about where to get your content.
The most obvious way is to create it yourself.
This would probably be most useful for things like your
3-minute welcome/ course tour video on your Home page.
(You do have a welcome video on your home page, right?
It's such an important way to humanize your course and create connection with your students
right from the first few minutes they're there with you.)
Anyhow, some instructors also create short weekly overview videos
or tutorials on how to complete a specific course project. . .things like that.
And because Powerpoints were never meant to be stand-alone content,
a lot of savvy instructors are recording audio to go along with the slide decks
so they can share the same great comments and ideas
as they would in their face-to-face classes.
3rd party videos are another source of content for your course.
One caveat is you need to make sure they're appropriately captioned.
The auto-generated captioning on YouTube isn't sufficient for accessibility.
But captioning is a whole 'nother Byte-sized Canvas episode!
Canvas has thoughtfully built in a few different methods for integrating multimedia
into your course easily, depending on where the original source file is located.
Because audio and video files are so large, it's best not to upload them
directly into your Canvas course.
You'll likely run out of room in no time.
You have been provided with a free 3C Media Solutions account,
courtesy of the Chancellor's Office.
So that's where I recommend putting your media files.
It's a protected environment and they have grant money to caption your videos for free.
Hallelujah!
Go to 3CMediaSolutions.org to create an account.
Here's the really cool thing.
There is a 3CMedia LTI that's integrated into the Canvas Rich Content Editor.
Why is that so cool, you ask?
Well, because it makes it oh, so simple to get the video or audio from your 3C account
into your Canvas course.
Some of you may remember not too long ago, you'd have to go into your 3C account, copy
the embed code, come back into Canvas, open the page editor, go into the HTML area,
paste the code and then, often, the video would end up being the wrong size
and the media player wouldn't show the whole screen.
You'd have these weird vertical or horizontal scroll bars to mess with.
But now, you can embed video and audio directly from within the Canvas page
with the touch of a button, and it's always the right size.
No scroll bars to deal with!
Let me show you how simple it is.
Once you're in edit mode on a page, you'll find the 3CMedia icon
in the Canvas Rich Content Editor (RCE).
In my case, the 3CMedia app is here in the More External Tools drop-down.
In your Canvas instance, it may show up right in the main RCE menu.
Look for the little pink something.
The LTI has been enabled for our entire system
but not all of the CCC campuses have it turned on yet.
If you don't see it in the RCE, ask your campus Canvas Administrator
to enable the 3CMedia LTI at your local level.
When I click the 3C icon, it links directly to my 3CMedia account.
So however I have my 3CMedia materials organized, that's what I'm going to see.
I can then find the video I want to embed on the page, click Insert
and boom, it's done!
You can also embed audio this way but just know
there is a slight glitch with the audio player
and it actually embeds it as a video player,
instead of an audio player.
To remedy that, follow the same steps to embed your file.
So, here's my audio file
And then. . .you'll see, it shows up looking more like a video player
which may confuse students because they're going to be clicking it,
wondering where the video is, and emailing you, etc. And we don't want that.
So, what you can do is go into the HTML editor area.
Where it says "height," instead of leaving the default 300 pixels,
you can change it to 100 or 75 or something that's decreased.
So then it looks more like an audio player and students won't be confused.
There are more video libraries that you can access through the RCE:
Khan Academy, TedEd and Internet Archive.
All of those will give you the same capability of clicking a button
and it will insert the media player right there on the page.
If these aren't already be part of your campus' RCE you can easily add them.
Let me show you how.
From Settings in the course navigation,
you will click on the Apps tab.
and do a search.
If I want to do Khan Academy, I'm going to put in Khan
and it finds it for me. . .I click. . .I say "Add App."
I say "Add App" again.
Now when I'm back on the page,
and I click the More External Tools drop-down,
you can see Khan Academy has been added.
One last thing I want to mention is the simplest way to embed YouTube videos.
From the web page with the video, click on the Share button
and select the Embed option.
A little trick is to deselect the box that says "Show suggested videos when the video finishes."
You don't want your students to be distracted by any of the suggestions
that YouTube is likely to make.
Watch the code up here when I select and deselect the box.
You can see it changes depending on whether the box is selected or deselected.
So be sure to deselect it before you copy the code so you're getting the correct embed code.
Go back to your Canvas page,
put your cursor where you want the video on the page,
then select the Insert/Edit Media icon,
go to the Embed tab, paste in the code you grabbed
from the YouTube page.
Click OK. . .and there's your video.
Before I click Save, I'll add whatever directions I want to give students
about the material, just the way I would in a face-to-face class.
Then when I click Save, we can see that all three of those files are there.
That's it for today.
There's a lot to learn about using videos in your course,
so thanks for sticking with me!
Until next time, this is Helen, wishing you a Canvalicious day!
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