Publishing videos as a student

IMPORTANT: Information for students about publishing videos on KI Play

Students will no longer be able to upload videos to KI Play. Student access to KI Play will be revised as of 28 June 2021. In the future students will be able to view content according to access rights but will not be able to upload videos to the video portal. Student videos should in the future be published to My Media in Canvas. Your teacher may ask you to upload a video for an assignment. This should also be done via Canvas. Refer to this guide Uploading videos in your course

REMEMBER! When you upload video files to your via your File area these files will count against the storage quota for your personal account. You may soon exceed your limit. When you upload audio and media files using the media tool in the Rich Content Editor, or directly to Files, Canvas converts files up to 500 MB. This means that files exceeding 500MB cannot be uploaded even if you have storage quota left on your account.
When you upload a file to your course, group, or user files, Canvas converts the file into a format supported by your browser. Media playback is determined according to browser, so if students cannot view the file, they may need to try to view the file in another browser.
We recommend that instructors publish long video files in My Media in Canvas. Your teacher will need to activate this via the course menu.

Upload films directly to Canvas via Kaltura plugin (My Media and Media Gallery)

My Media is a plugin to Canvas. The functionality and interface is the same as KI Play since it is a service offered by Kaltura. Both teachers and students can create and upload films via My Media once this has been activated in the course menu. My Media is a collection of all the videos that you have uploaded with the Kaltura tools. This is your complete library of videos. It’s associated with your Canvas account, but not with any particular course, however, in order to see your own Media library in Canvas the teacher must activate it in the course menu. Once activated in a course menu, you will see all your personally uploaded videos not just the ones uploaded for the course where you see the My Meida

In each course there is the option to activate My Media and Media Gallery. Your teacher has to activate these.

Media Gallery allows both students and teachers to share videos with each other in the course, without having to publish a film on a specific page (although this is also possible of course). Playlists can also be created in the context of the course.

University of Melbourne Guides

Recording Media via the Rich Content Editor

You can record video or audio directly into a Canvas page, assignment or quiz using the Record/Upload video icon in the menu in the editor. We recommend that these films should not be more than three minutes. This type of video, recorded directly in the editing tool, is stored on a Canvas-server but you will not be able to locate it as a video file under Files. To delete it you delete the video component from the page.

Here are Canvas' own guides for this type of recording:

How do I record media in Canvas as a student

Which program to choose when you want to record a video?

There are several tools to choose from when you decide that you want to record a presentation as an assignment. Which one you choose depends on your needs and how much editing you are prepared (or need to do) with your recording.

Screencast-o-matic is a simple tool for creating screen recordings and voice overs. You can either upload the resulting video files directly the Canvas via My Media, or host them on an external video service such as KI play or YouTube. If you use KI's version of Screencast-o-matic, you will have access to an extended version with enhanced recording and editing functionality. This is a good choice if you want to edit your recording and add subtitles.
- Screencasting including Screencast-o-matic (link to KI staff portal)
- Screencast-o-matic's own support page on adding Adding captions with screencast-o-matic.

Kaltura Capture: My Media via Canvas gives you access to the plugin called Kaltura Capture. You download and install the plugin on your own computer. There are minimal editing tools with this plugin but it is a way of creating a quick recording and uploading directly to My Media via Canvas.
- Install and record using Kaltura Capture (brief KI guide for both for screen recording and recording PPT)
- Recording with Kaltura Capture - more detailed guide from Linnéuniversitet

PowerPoint in Office 0365:
You can record (narrate) your slides and then export it as a video mp4 file.
- How to Make a Video in PowerPoint - ppt to video (On Youtube from Kevin Stratvert, Microsoft 6:44min)
- Microsoft Support web site: Microsoft Support: Record PowerPoint presentations

Recording your presentation in Zoom:
You can start a meeting with just yourself as a participant and record your presentation. Make sure that you know where you recordings in Zoom are saved! Once you have created your recording you can upload it directly to My Media in Canvas or you can publish it by uploading to KI Play.
- Using Zoom to record your presentation - guide from Linnéuniversitet (remember this guide shows Linnés Zoom instance and you will need to start with KIs Zoom instance ki-se.zoom.us

Embedding films from Youtube

This guide shows how to embed films from Youtube into a Canvas page