Give Access to Camera to Embed Pictures

[nikolina_petrov]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

Hello fellow Canvas users,

I was surprised to find out that students have access to their camera to record a video in the Rich Content Editor but do not have the same ability to take a picture and Embed it directly. As a math teacher to young students, I would like for students to be able to do some of their work, common core modeling on paper and then with One Click of a Button to upload that work for me to review.

It is very useful for any science and math class or for a teacher to see the students work prior to answering the question.  Teachers can use it the open response quizzes and the homework assignments and students will not have a saved picture on their Chromebook or another device. It should be a direct snap a picture in the Rich Content Editor for teacher speed grading and analyzing,

Currently,  students have to take the picture save it either in their Drive or worse, on a different website, and then find it, upload it and on and on. It's too many steps to do while a young mind needs to concentrate on the work not on how to turn it in.

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the following release notes:

Canvas Student Release Notes (iOS 6.3) 

 Canvas Teacher Release Notes (Android 1.6)

Canvas Student Release Notes (Android 6.3) 

[tdelillo]

Wow, I must have been so focused on granular permissions that I totally blanked on this. I don't remember this discussion at all!

[stevencopeland]

that would be nice!

[Renee_Carney]

This idea is not complete, but progress has been made!  You can see the first release of the solution in the Canvas Teacher Release Notes (Android 1.6): Rick Content Editor: Insert Device Images. 

[Renee_Carney]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas 

For more information, please read through the following release notes:

Canvas Student Release Notes (iOS 6.3) 

Canvas Student Release Notes (Android 6.3) 

[Renee_Carney]

 @nikolina_petrov  Thank You  for submitting this idea, as well as, margaret.devine Thank You ,  @ruth_karr  Thank You , lgabrielson Thank You ,  @ksauber  Thank You , bogardde Thank You , joshua.gagnier Thank You , elizabeth.henry Thank You , nicole.deshazer Thank You , mfalkner Thank You ,  @afogg  Thank You ,  @amassals  Thank You ,  @sworrell  Thank You , geraldine.maskelony Thank You ,  @RobDitto  Thank You ,  @tdelillo  Thank You , & stevencopeland Thank You  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of Canvas! 

[ksauber]

Thank you so much for taking the time to develop this powerful tool. This will be so helpful, especially for our youngest users. Do you know if the tool will be developed to use on Chromebooks and laptops, or just in the mobile app?

[Renee_Carney]

 @ksauber  

There are no current plans for this to function the same on Chromebook or Laptops, however there is work being done to improve the web experience for adding images.  You can follow this thread for more information.  The thread is focused on discussions, however the work being done is for the rich text editor overall.  

https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1053-upload-an-image-directly-to-a-discussion-as-a-student 

[lgabrielson]

So are they saying it will not be useful for our kids yet?

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 10:03 AM rcarney@instructure.com <

[Renee_Carney]

I don't understand your question, Linda.  What do you mean?

[lcobbey]

I could definitely use this feature for Chromebooks in assignments. If "Media Recordings" allowed students to take a photo instead of just a video or audio recording, that would be ideal.