Are Student New Media Player Submissions Downloadable in SpeedGrader?

[cpowell2]

Unlike submitted “paper” files for assignments, media recordings with the new media player in Canvas doesn’t have a very noticeable link to download student submissions, whether they be audio or video recordings.

I happened to spot a way that teachers could get access to the actual file of the student submission…but it might involve using “please?” 

This quick video shows where those files are located.

Thanks,

-Chris

[dbrace]

Hi @cpowell2,

Thank you for putting this together.

I believe the a few main reasons for this are:

1. generally speaking, multimedia files take up more storage space and typically users (regardless of role and an educational context or not) do not look to download the content and instead only watch or listen to it in a streamable format
   1. this makes an (mostly unfair assumption) that everyone always has (reliable) Internet access
2. since these types of submissions are recorded in a WEBM file format, they can be a challenge (some quick research gives quick options) to playback
3. it is my understanding that Canvas switched to this way because there were situations that users were downloading content that they were not supposed to be able to because of permission settings

I have included @AkosFarago because they might be able to provide more information and/or a workaround that does not require students to access their "Files", download the video, and share it (which could potentially either cause duplicates in user "Files" or other storage challenges in Canvas or other ways of sharing content).

-Doug