Hi all,

I upload my lectures to Canvas Studio. I want to be able to stop students from downloading the video or the transcript of the video. Since the advent of AI, I have noticed a steady increase in average grade in my courses. The average went from the mid 70s to the mid 80s since AI was launched. Students are simply taking our lectures/transcripts putting them in AI and generating the exam questions. I have tried that and it works. If I can do it, then they can do it. It is CHEATING plain and simple.

I place each lecture in a new page. I have found a workaround to restrict the video download by using the share media function in Canvas Studio as shown in the first screenshot. I generate an embed link and then I embed the link in my lecture page. You can see the look of the lecture in the second uploaded image. The three dots on the side only show download transcript and keyboard shortcuts.

The students can still download transcripts and can still cheat using AI. I have asked Canvas support how we can turn the download transcript option off and the only way is to disable captioning. Disabling captioning hurts  students with learning disabilities. When I started teaching online, I was told that it is considered good practice to enable captioning for students. So I am very hesitant to disable captioning.

Is there anything I can do to disable transcript download w/o disabling captioning? Has anyone found a workaround for this?

Thanks

Naji Dahi