Canvas Studio

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Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a media tool that allows students and instructors to upload, create, edit, manage, share and discuss audio and video files. Existing or new media can be created with Studio's capture and editing tools. Canvas Studio can also be used to create video quizzes. 

FAQs

  • Video recordings can be created with screen capture, webcam or both
  • Users can upload existing video files to their studio library
  • Studio has tools for editing video content and adding captions. 
  • Studio supports a wide range of video and audio file formats and can be used with YouTube  and Vimeo files as well.
  • Users can make comments at specific points in a media file's timeline
  • Files can be shared with courses, specific users, or publicly 
  • File owners can view analytics that shows who is watching and listening to files and if they are watching the entire file or skipping around
  • Studio submissions of Studio media files can be viewed and graded in the SpeedGrader
  • Studio is compatible with mobile devices for both recording and viewing Studio media
  • Studio has a Quiz toll that allows you to insert questions into your video. 

Studio can be accessed in Canvas from the Global Navigation menu, the course navigation menu, or as an external tool in the Rich Content Editor. 

Canvas Studio media files can be embedded in any course content. This includes modules, assignments, pages, quiz questions, and other course items.

Students can submit audio and video files to assignments and discussions. 

SMC will be transitioning from Echo360 to Canvas Studio as the new supported video platform.

If you use or have used Echo360, to save the media files you have created, you will need to download your Echo360 media. Once you have downloaded your media files, they can be uploaded to Canvas Studio. Echo360 will be available until June 30, 2023. After this date, faculty will no longer have access to Echo360. All Echo360 media will need to be downloaded by June 30th.

To download your media from Echo360 follow these instructions.