[ARCHIVED] Delete individual Zoom recordings in Canvas

[dsw13]

It is straightforward to delete an entire cloud recording from the list of cloud recordings in Canvas.  There's a box for that.  But sometimes there are multiple individual recording files under a single cloud recording entry.  Is it possible to delete some of these files individually?

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hello @dsw13 ...

As far as I know, there isn't a way to delete the individual files for a recorded Zoom session?  Is there a reason you'd want to delete those files?  When you click on a Zoom recording, you may see up to four different files:

• *.mp4 file (video recording)
• *.m4a file (audio recording)
• *.vtt file (closed captioned transcript)
• *.txt file (chat interface transcript)

Those files may be useful to others, so I would recommend keeping them as part of your overall Zoom recording...in case you or your students would need them for some reason.

I hope this helps.  Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!  Take care, stay safe, and be well.

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hello @dsw13 ...

As far as I know, there isn't a way to delete the individual files for a recorded Zoom session?  Is there a reason you'd want to delete those files?  When you click on a Zoom recording, you may see up to four different files:

• *.mp4 file (video recording)
• *.m4a file (audio recording)
• *.vtt file (closed captioned transcript)
• *.txt file (chat interface transcript)

Those files may be useful to others, so I would recommend keeping them as part of your overall Zoom recording...in case you or your students would need them for some reason.

I hope this helps.  Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!  Take care, stay safe, and be well.

[zcburns]

My TA co-hosts meetings, and nearly always logs on before I do. Yesterday she was on before me, and Zoom automatically recorded about 30 minutes of her prepping whiteboards and singing to herself! When she hands hosting to me, it creates a new file.

There are currently 4 files in Canvas, her singing and the actual class (audio and visual versions of both). I'd like to delete just the audio and visual files of not-class, but only have the option to delete the entire session. So that's why I'd like to delete individual files.

It looks like Canvas pulls directly from Zoom, so I think that you can delete those individual files on your Zoom cloud, and they'll disappear from Canvas

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hello @zcburns and @dsw13 ...

I stand corrected...and I love it when I can be wrong...so thank you for pointing this out.  I just tried setting up a short Zoom session via our Zoom Pro LTI integration in Canvas.  I recorded the session.  Then, I logged into my Zoom account on Zoom's website.  I went to my Recordings, accessed the recorded session, and I was able to hover over each of the files (shown in my screen shot) to either download the file, share the link, or delete the file.

Thanks again for mentioning this.  Hope it will be of help to others, too!  Take care...