Sharing Sounds on Music Programs & Videos?

[rross1]

Hello Canvas community,

I am a music teacher using this system for the first time. The conferences are generally successful with my students except for one important feature: When I share my screen with my students and we look at music software and music programs on my desktop, my students cannot hear the sounds. When I share videos to watch with them and analyze the music scores together, they cannot hear those either. Is there a setting I missed somewhere that would enable them to hear what I'm hearing so we can work through our music together?

Thank you for your help,

Rachel Ross

Choir and Guitar Instructor 

Keithley Middle School

[Bobby2 · Accepted solution]

Hi  @rross1  Welcome to the Canvas Community.

Good on you for branching out and using conferencing with Music. 

If you are using Big Blue Button then, as far as I know, if you put the link to the video in the conference then the students can watch with sound. This helps towards different bandwidth at students houses. But a simultaneous experience is tricky. 

If you use teams meetings built into Canvas there is a small box to tick 'include system audio' if you need sound. Do this when you share your screen. 

Sing out if you need a hand. 

[DeborahWood]

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