How do you add a video to Canvas Studio?

Video guide

This video (3:39min) shows both how you upload an existing video and how you review and publish the captions that go with the video.

If you only want to watch the instructions for uploading a video we recommend that you watch the first 1:30 minutes. There is another guide (text) for uploading captions M3. 1 Add Closed Captions to your video in Canvas Studio

Text guide

If you have an existing video, such as a video that you recorded using Zoom, ScreenPal, or PowerPoint, you can upload it to your library in Canvas Studio. To upload video to Studio, follow these instructions:

Click Studio in the global menu in Canvas.
- My Library will now open, which is your personal media library in Canvas Studio. In the left-hand corner you can navigate between your Library and your Settings.
- In the navigation panel on the left, you can see your own videos, collections that are shared with you, and course collections which are create automatically when you add videos to Canvas course pages.
Click Create on the right. You now have three options for adding video to your library:
- Studio Capture - Record webcam and screen in the browser*
- Screencast-o-Matic - Record screen and webcam in third-party tools.*
- Add media files - Upload video or audio files into your library.
You can search and filter your results in your library by date and name. You can add multiple categories when searching.

*NB! These choices are visible in Edge and Chrome. You'll see other menu options in Safari and Firefox. See the page M2.4 Create video with your webcam in Firefox, Safari

Upload existing video

Select the Add Media File option. In the dialog box that opens, choose to upload video from your computer or to upload video from YouTube. Videos you upload will automatically go into your Studio Library. Here's how to do it:

Select Drag & Drop or Upload video to upload video from your computer. The FAQ page gives you a list of file formats you can upload.
Or paste a YouTube link to also upload a YouTube video to your Studio Library. Note this removes the captions from the Youtube video as well as excluding Youtube advertisements. We suggest that you only upload videos from YouTube if you want to create interactive questions i.e. quizzes or enable comments or annotations.

Add existing media to your library

How do I find the file/video I have uploaded

The video will be saved directly to your Studio library, which you can access via Studio in the global menu. The video will be automatically subtitled* but you must review and publish the subtitles before publishing the recording. *Does not apply to Youtube videos.

To give students access to the video, embed it in a page in your course. See M3.1 Publish video from Studio in your Canvas course.

What functions are available for videos that you upload to the Library?

From the Studio Library, there are two sets of menus.

To watch video, edit the details eg video title, description and tags, and review and publish subtitles, click on the title of the video (1).
For other menu choices select the three dot menu. This menu allows you to create quizzes (even several quiz per video), add annotations to the video, share the video with a colleague or a group, replace thumbnail on video and move the video to a video collection.

Menus for video in Studio Library