I have two related issues concerning my use of a Canvas Conference for my online orientation session. Both involve the recording I made of the Conference under the assumption that ALL students would somehow be able to view it later. Here are the issues:
1. Students who add the course after the orientation occurred. The orientation was Monday evening, 09/25. The deadline for adding the class is still 1.5 weeks away! I don't see any way in which I can give access to the recording to those late-adding students, who badly need to see it.
2. I invited all of the students to the Conference Sunday evening, 09/24. For reasons I do not understand, my college added some more students Monday morning. One of these had registered for the course a month earlier, so it makes no sense to me that so many students were in the course as of Sunday evening even though (at least) one who should have been there was not. Regardless, I now have a situation in which not all of the early-registered students in my course can view the recording either!
To summarize! Two categories of my students cannot view my recorded Conference that served as my course orientation session. Is there some way to invite students to a recorded Conference after it has been held? (If not, there really should be!)
Hi Maryann (and thanks Chris for including me!),
I am the product manager for BigBlueButton. I work at Blindside Networks (the company that started the BigBlueButton project), and, while I can't speak for Instructure, I can answer your question.
The short answer is that once a conference is created, the invite list for that conference is set and not changeable.
Extending the features of invite list to make it changeable is definitely worthy of a making a feature request.
The slightly longer answer is invite list is a great mechanism to control who has access to a conference, but this control had pros and cons. For example, one pro is suppose you want to hold a tutoring session with a student and not have that session visible to other students. Easy -- just create a conference and only invite that student. No other student in the course (now or in the future) will see that conference or its recording.
The con, however, is that as the invite list currently isn't modifiable after the conference is created, you encounter situations such as (1) and (2).
I did a quick search of the current list of feature requests at Ideas and didn't find anything related to extending the features of invite list to make it changeable.
Maryann, I encourage you to repost this as a Feature Request (I thought you did a good job of explaining the use cases, so you could just cut-and-paste it). I'll also raise this request with Canvas product management. We'd like to see this feature implemented too!
Regards,... Fred
BigBlueButton Devleoper