It turns out many of the techniques used to structure a lecture in a theatre are also effective in the video format. The technique we want to focus on in this resource is how to break an hour-long lecture into connected topics or themes. You probably already ‘chunk’ your...
Navigate to your Canvas site, find and select ‘My Media’. Locate and select the pencil icon on the top right section of the screen. This will take you into video’s settings page where you will be able to manage and edit the video’s setting starting with ‘Details’: In the ‘Details’ tab, you...
Talk to text A simple way to adapt a lecture for online delivery is to write it down. In this example, a guest lecturer has annotated their slides, providing a detailed yet engaging commentary that guides students through the learning materials. While being precise and thoroughly referenced, the text is relatively informal in style to help students feel directly addressed....
Navigate to your Canvas site and find ‘My Media‘ in the menu on the left side: Locate the ‘Add New‘ button in the top right section of the screen and select your preferred media upload from the drop down menu: To upload your own media, simply click on ‘Media Upload‘...
Go to the Canvas Page where you’d like to embed your media and select ‘Edit’ to access the Rich Content Editor. Select Tools from the toolbar above the text entry box, then Apps. Select Embed Kaltura Media. If you don’t see Embed Kaltura Media, select View All, then select...
Navigate to ‘My Media’, select the video you wish to create a quiz for and click on the pencil edit button on the far right: Click on ‘Launch Editor’ to the right of your video – once in ‘Launch Editor’ select ‘Quiz‘ on the top left screen. Within the...
To review and edit captions, find the relevant video or audio file in either My Media or the Media Gallery for your site. Simply click on the name of the media to open the media information screen, open the Actions menu and select + Caption & Enrich. The list...
The Direct Share feature in Canvas means you can share and copy assignments, announcements, quizzes, discussions, pages and modules quickly and easily. You can send content directly to another user in Canvas, or copy content into your Canvas courses. You will find the option to share or copy in...
Pages is the Canvas content item you can use to add rich content to your Canvas course. With the help of the Rich Content Editor, you are able to embed images, files, videos, audio files and content from Youtube, Vimeo, Khan Academy and many other third party tools, in...
Modules are used in Canvas to organize your course content and create a learning path for students. To access Modules, click the Modules link in the Course Navigation Menu. The video tutorial below (4:09 min) shows you how to find and create Modules. You can organise your content in...
