This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 6/04/25.
Description
When Assignment Enhancements - Student is enabled and the assignment is setup with Submission Type Media Recordings, when students attempt to upload their own media files the UI shows an error message “Please enter a file name". The file upload is also not progressive and appears stuck at 33% even though it is still uploading especially with larger files.
Expected Behavior
Uploaded media recordings should not display this error when Assignment Enhacements - Student is enabled.
Workaround
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Ignore the error and stay on the page until the file successfully uploads.
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Disable
Assignment Enhacements - Student.
Steps to Reproduce
Prerequisite: A published course with at least one student enrollment and with Assignment Enhancements enabled..
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Create an assignment with Submission Type
Media Recordings.-
Save and publish
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As a student Begin the assignment.
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Select
Upload Media.-
After selecting an own file preferably larger than 40+ MBs, observer the UI error.
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Additional Info
RCX-3243
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