Are instructor created media recordings saved anywhere in Canvas?

[skreitzer]

If an instructor records a video message to students in the inbox, provides video feedback to an assignment, or creates a media recording using the rich content editor, are the media files saved anywhere in Canvas? I have instructors who would like to reuse the same media recording in multiple areas (message, feedback, etc) but there is no way to pull them up again as you would a regular file. Any suggestions?

[ericwerth · Accepted solution]

Hi  @skreitzer   I'm actually kind of excited because forever I have thought this was impossible.  However, I ran into a post by  @jared  here Download media recordings? and tested in both an announcement and Speedgrader and it works!  As the post indicates, these need to be downloaded one at a time but I love learning something new and now need to go email one of our professors that had some content recorded a while back and didn't think downloading it was possible either!

The files, as far as I can tell, are not accessible anywhere in Canvas to link in multiple places as you indicated, but being able to get the MP4 file provides an option of placing this separately in Canvas if desired, or what I am going to suggest to our faculty is placing these videos in either YouTube or our lecture-capture/streaming service Panopto.  At that point, they can be linked anywhere in Canvas without having to worry about storage issues.

I hope this helps and best wishes!

[skreitzer]

It looks like it works to save when doing a media comment in the Speedgrader but not in a message.

[Chris_Hofer]

@skreitzer ...

The link that Eric provided appears to have been archived.  However, if you click on that link again, you'll see a heading for "What if I lose access to something I need?".  Follow the directions in that paragraph to submit a request to have Canvas Community members restore that page for you.  I hope this helps a bit!

[sbridges]

Can you share the directions from the original post to which you linked? That post has been archived.

[melissa_bartlet]

I just ran across this post looking for where these videos live. A teacher wanted a back up of one she created. However, I thought about copying the HTML code and it worked. I even went from one canvas user to anther canvas user pasted the code into another teacher's page and the video still worked.