Sharing Multiple Video Files with Classes

[emora1]

I'm an instructor in the CTVA program for the Lighting 2 Studio, which collaborates with the Directing 2 class. 

Our next meeting will be our Critique Session where both classes will meet together on the same Zoom conference. The Directing students will be showing the latest cuts of the scenes (that the classes collaborated on) to everybody. 

It seems like the best way to do with remotely is to have the Directors upload their files to some sort of file share that everybody in both classes can have access to. Using the "Studio" platform in Canvas looks like it significantly compresses the files, and it doesn't seem possible to share the files across classes.

Do we have some sort of platform to act as a file share / transfer for larger video files? These will likely be large HD video files that take a lot of a storage, that will be uploaded directly by the students themselves and shared with all of us. 

[nwilson7]

Hello  @emora1 ‌, this is a shared Canvas community made up of Canvas users across the world.  It is not specific to your institution and there is no guarantee that anyone from your institution will ever see this.  I mention this because it looks like at least part of your question is directed to what resources are available at your institution and we would really not have a way of knowing that.

That said, I will attempt to give you are few options.  

There really is not a surefire way to have classes interact with each other purely through Canvas as Canvas is sort of designed to prevent students from interacting with people outside of their course.  If you were wanting to keep it internal to each course, I would use the studio tool and then have students post their videos in a discussion.  This would allow students to see each others videos as well as comment.  Studio also does not use your course storage space which many times is limited to 1 or 2 gigs per course.

If you are a Google school, I could see some options with either using a shared folder or a shared doc.  With the shared doc, I would have students post to youtube but then have the settings as "only people with the link" so it is not public on the internet.  They would post their links on the Google doc.  Also, with the Google option, you could have that shared across both course.

If you did want to fully allow both courses to interact, you can cross-list them which combines them but I would be hesitant about doing that if you have been using Canvas for other submissions thus far in the year as one class will become the "parent" course and the sub-courses will have their content removed.  Here is the documentation though if this is of interest to you.

https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12983-4152718703 

I am sure that there are other options that I am not thinking of but hopefully this helps!

Nick

[emora1]

Thanks so much Nick for the thorough response. Ya I did not realize that this was a Canvas-wide discussion group. I brought my question to a more specific group at Columbia as well.

I'll look into the Discussions section see if that'll help us.

We are tied into Microsoft. Instructor I'm working with on this has recommended Teams so we're trying that to share the files.

Cross-listing may not be the right move, like you said. I think if we can find a place to drop the files that both sides of the class can reach we'll be all good. Thanks for the help.