I am a photography instructor that ask questions of my students and they must respond with a photograph they have taken. I want the students to be able to post their photograph to answer the question and be able to comment on each other's response images. I am having a hard time trying to set this up. How do I set that up when creating the work?
Hi Sue and welcome to the Canvas Community!
There are a number of ways to tackle this problem, both using Canvas and other 3rd party tools. In Canvas, a discussion board is the best approach, but getting photos into the discussion for students can be a bit of a headache if they don't understand how it works. Thankfully, this is being implemented at the moment and apparently has been implemented on the mobile apps. Read about it and vote it up at: Upload an image directly to a discussion as a student
In the meantime, share this document with your students using the desktop web interface: How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student? The basic steps are to upload a picture into your my files area first and then go to the discussion and use the embed image tool to find the file in the my files are and upload it. Now, if students have their images in an online photo repository of some kind, they can skip the upload to Canvas and use the url to the image to embed it on the page. Once images are uploaded or shared, all students can make comments on the uploaded and shared photos.
The third option is to go to your course settings ->more options and enable students to attach files to discussion posts. This is real simple but often students are asked to download the files to view them and they are not usually embedded on the page. The least functional option as far as I am concerned.
Hopefully this helps :-)
Hi Sue and welcome to the Canvas Community!
There are a number of ways to tackle this problem, both using Canvas and other 3rd party tools. In Canvas, a discussion board is the best approach, but getting photos into the discussion for students can be a bit of a headache if they don't understand how it works. Thankfully, this is being implemented at the moment and apparently has been implemented on the mobile apps. Read about it and vote it up at: Upload an image directly to a discussion as a student
In the meantime, share this document with your students using the desktop web interface: How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student? The basic steps are to upload a picture into your my files area first and then go to the discussion and use the embed image tool to find the file in the my files are and upload it. Now, if students have their images in an online photo repository of some kind, they can skip the upload to Canvas and use the url to the image to embed it on the page. Once images are uploaded or shared, all students can make comments on the uploaded and shared photos.
The third option is to go to your course settings ->more options and enable students to attach files to discussion posts. This is real simple but often students are asked to download the files to view them and they are not usually embedded on the page. The least functional option as far as I am concerned.
Hopefully this helps :-)