Student Videos and Voting

[brendaa]

I'm looking for ideas for an assignment in which students post videos describing a potential group project & then students vote on the projects to create a top 5 list. The idea is to replicate a formerly in class activity in the online environment. Each student records a short < 2 minute pitch for their idea using powerpoint & audio/video and then uploads into Canvas.  Students would then view the videos & vote via survey or via discussions and "likes".  Are there any apps to make this less clunky?  There might be up to 20 students in the class, so if the students upload their videos and the instructor has to turn around and repost links to each in a survey, this could be labor intensive for the instructor.  Using the discussion feature would allow students to upload and display their own videos but I don't know how much control there is over the "liking" in a discussion.  Can students only like once?

[kona]

 @brendaa ​, I actually did something like this over the summer using discussions and liking and it worked really well. Students can like more than one discussion post, but my students seemed to follow the directions of only liking one post. It was also nice that I could order the discussions by likes so the top liked posts were the ones at the top of the discussion.

If you don't like this idea, another way you could do it is with an embedded Google Doc - allow anyone to edit, and then students could post the link to their video and put their name by the video they want to vote on.

Hope this helps!

[jskruba]

GREAT QUESTION!! What did you both end up doing or recommend now?