Assignments

Using Canvas Studio for video/audio assignments allows you not only to comment globally on the entire video as you normally would in SpeedGrader, but also to supplement that with in-timeline feedback on specific elements of the video. While viewing a video in Canvas Studio, instructors may pause the video and comment at that particular timestamp, thus creating a series of time-based comments within the video.

In your Canvas course site, click the Assignments link in the course navigation menu.
Click the + Assignment button located in the top right hand corner.
Fill in your Assignment's:
- Name
- Description/Instructions (be sure to include the expectation that they upload a video to Canvas Studio)
- Points Possible
Within the Submission Type area, select Online from the drop-down menu.
Check the box for Text Entry.

Note: Do not select the ‘Media Recordings’ option here.
Enter your assignment's due date.
Click the Save and Publish button.

This assignment will work with Canvas Groups, and can be differentially assigned to individual students or Sections using the 'Assign to' toolbox with various due and availability date settings.

Text Entry

Text Entry will provide the student the standard Canvas rich text box editor with the standard formatting options. There is a Studio icon available in the row of formatting icons where students can insert a Canvas Studio or other media file into their text entry.

The reason to use text entry is to allow the student to create a page with some words to contextualize or describe their video or perhaps to insert other media files such as images. You'll also be able to use the markup features in SpeedGrader on any submitted text, leaving in-line comments, etc.

How students will submit Canvas Studio media from the text box editor

Discussions

In both graded and ungraded Canvas Discussions, students will have the Rich Content Editor text box with the standard formatting options available to create their posts. Canvas Studio media files can be inserted as in the above screenshot in the ‘text entry’ option for a Canvas Assignment.

If you want your entire class to review other student's videos, you would need to use a Discussion Board to make that happen. Students would upload their video(s) in a reply post, thereby allowing all other students to view their video and provide feedback/comments.

Quizzes

The same editing window applies to Canvas Quizzes if you give a student an 'Essay Question'.

Grading

Video, and audio, assignments can be viewed/played and graded, with or without rubrics, within the SpeedGrader. Instructors can grade submissions in SpeedGrader just like any other Canvas assignment.