You can use Studio, a tool in Canvas, to record webcam and/or screen capture video.
- Log into your Canvas course.
- Click the Studio icon in the far lefthand global navigation menu bar.
- In the upper righthand corner, click Create and select Studio Capture.
- The webcam window will open. If you are recording with webcam, skip to step 6.
At the bottom of the webcam window, you can enable or disable Screen Capture. - If you enable Screen Capture the window will show the items you can share. Select
Select the item and click Share. - Click Start Recording. A three second countdown will begin.
- When you are finished recording, click Finished Recording, you can also pause and continue or cancel and start over.
- Your video is saved on your Canvas Studio page.
- Click on the video to open it, and click on Captions.
At the No Captions Added prompt, click Request. - At the Captions Request prompt, select English for the language and click Request.
- In the ellipse menu located to the right of the Not Published button, select Review and Publish and edit your captions.
- After you have edited your captions, scroll to the top of your captions and click the Publish button.
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