To share your video through Canvas Studio, first click on the Canvas Studio button on your Canvas site. To create a link that you can post as an External URL content item in a module in Canvas, choose links.Īnd that, in a nutshell, is the Powerpoint to Canvas pipeline via Echo360. When you click on share, you’ll see options to share to an individual, generate links or share with a class. Hover over the video you want to share and then click the blue box on the bottom right of the thumbnail. This will show you thumbnails of all the videos of which you are the owner. Once the video has finished processing in Echo360, click on All Content on the left side menu. To enable the students to see it, you must remember your rules of kindergarten and SHARE it with them. That’s great – but it doesn’t mean that the students can see it. From here, you can upload the video.īut wait – there’s more! This uploads the video to your Echo360 library. This brings you to your Echo360 “home” page. Now, click on Echo360 on the left menu.įrom here, click on the Echo360 logo on the top left. Remember, these are for videos that you’ve produced through Powerpoint or some other production system.įirst, login to Canvas. Here are the steps for sharing your file with students using Echo360. Or, you might choose Canvas Studio if you want a system that integrates easily with Canvas and allows for comments and questions. Why choose one over the other? Well, you might choose to use Echo360 as your video liaison if you use WPI’s lecture capturing service, or if you already are an Echo360 user. I’m going to go through the steps for sharing the video via Echo360 and then also for Canvas Studio. From any one of these video platforms, your video can be connected to Canvas. You can upload the video file to Echo360, to Canvas Studio, or to Ensemble. To create a video file from your recorded narration, go to the file menu and choose Export. Next, we’ll prep it for sharing by exporting it as a video. Now that you’ve recorded your slide show presentation, save it. This will replace the audio that currently is stored there with new audio. If you need to re-record over a certain slide but don’t want to re-record the entire presentation, you can choose to record from the current slide. One you’re done, click on the stop button. You’ll see I underlined the word “video” – which was the best I could do since my circles are rather squiggly. On the top left you’ll see the recording controls, and at the bottom you’ll see tools like the pen and highlighter. Powerpoint will give you a three second countdown and then you may begin narrating your presentation. If you are creating the video for the first time, select the option to record from the beginning. Then, when you’re ready to record, click on “slide show” and then “record slide show”. The first step is to create your slide presentation in Powerpoint.
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Since narrating Powerpoint files is a common way to create videos for courses, this blog post will illustrate two workflows for how to do this and then share with your students.