Hello,
I have a course in canvas that happens to be an imported SCORM compliant file. I have tested my course on a PC and the embedded videos playback automatically. When I view the course through the IPhone app, the course looks great with the exception of video not playing back. I'm also not presented with video playback controls to manually start the video.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
~Todd
Thanks for the reply Rick!
The video's are .mp4's. I'm going to try some other video formats before I go down a different path.
Hey Rick,
I have the screen-castomatic external app loaded into my canvas and I embedded the code generated by screencastomatic directly from the app within canvas editor and It won't playback the embedded video on the iphone app. How do I tell if it's scorm based? I can't see options on screencast to change the type of embed coding. The embedded video plays back fine on my macbook pro. Thanks for any help.
David,
I'm sorry but I really don't know a lot about screencast o'matic or why videos hosted on their site won't display on a mobile device. My guess is that the video format they are hosting with for embedded video won't work on a mobile platform, but it's also possible the issue is with the Canvas app getting the information.
Instead of embedding using screencast omatic, have you thought about just uploading the video into Canvas? Using 3rd party systems can have some benefits, but for simple hosting of video Canvas actually does a pretty good job and should always work within Canvas. Here is a guide for the best way to upload and embed a video in Canvas using their own video system How do I upload a video using the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
Rick
Thanks! Yeah, I normally have been uploading the video but would prefer to embed due to playback features.
Can you also include a screenshot of where the video isn't playing? Thanks!
Hi, I just wanted to check in again to see if you were able to solve this issue. Thanks.
Hi Ryan, when I embed from the screencastomatic app connected in my canvas editor it does populate the the video image on the student app but won't playback. It does however playback fine on a browser. Thanks.
Are you embedding the video in the RCE using Record/Upload Video Comment?
How do I upload a video using the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
I embed directly from the screencastomtic app that is within the RCE. I have also copied and pasted the embed code from screencast in the RCE "insert/edit media" icon. I don't see a way to place the embed code using "record/upload video." I am only able to upload the entire file which I am trying to avoid doing. Thanks.
I'm not familiar with the Screencastomatic integration into the RCE. It's frustrating that the embed code isn't working either. At this point, your only options are uploading the video using the record/upload video or uploading the video to another server or service (YouTube/Vimeo).
As for using the record/upload video function, it simply converts the video to HTML5 and streams it. It won't make the file size too large for your students it's not used against your storage quota. The only limit is 500mb per file upload.
Let me know what you decide to do. Good luck.
Good to know. Thanks for the help!
Hi Todd,
Do you know if the video created in the SCORM package is possibly flash based? If so that could explain it not working on a mobile device since Flash typically isn't supported on mobile. See if when you view the video on a computer if you can tell the format. For Flash, usually the browser prompts you to allow the first time you view it.
Generally speaking I try to avoid SCORM based content in Canvas. I don't know the details but it has never really played well in Canvas. I know that many believe the SCORM protocol to be not very secure and at one point I had heard that as a reason Canvas was not doing much to pursue making the packages work very well inside of the LMS.
Rick