To Our Amazing Educators Everywhere,
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
If you are following the blog, you know that our current focus is rolling out the updated media player experience, replacing it everywhere across Canvas and Studio. As we are reaching this milestone with its release, I wanted to take a moment and share the updates coming your way with Studio.
First, we couldn’t reach such a milestone if it wasn’t for the participants in the Early Adopter Program. A huge THANK YOU to everyone there—your early testing and feedback are truly invaluable. This Program will remain active beyond the production release, where we will continue to gather feedback on hot topics like video accessibility, AI solutions in video learning, captions translations and so on. While some will be added to Canvas videos too, we are going to shift our focus to Studio additions.
Release plan: as we are synchronizing all the updates to Canvas and Studio media, the release will occur on the April 24th. This is mainly due to the combined release of 3 major changes: updates to the Studio media player, standardizing the experience for Canvas media and starting to roll out Adaptive Streaming (which will last through April 30th).
What’s ahead?
Over the past three years, our focus was on accessible content creation, personal video management and helping admins support Studio at scale. With the redesigned Video Library and the new Admin Media Management UI, we can now shift some of our attention towards the learners' experience and improve video learning from a viewing perspective. New features we have in the works will be closely connected to the following challenge: How can students get more value from videos? How can we make video learning more intuitive and personal?
While some of this can be tackled with introducing interaction to videos such as embedding quizzes or adding annotations, we want to maximize the learning potential of plain videos too. Automatically generating captions is a foundational capability, but it also unlocks powerful tools to make videos more engaging. For instance, allowing students to follow a transcript alongside a video provides valuable learning support, which can be further enhanced by enabling them to link private notes to specific content with additional context.
Assisted caption editing - Minimize the time you spend correcting captions
Automated captions, of course, need corrections. While editing them can be time-consuming or costly—and often feels like a tedious task—it’s essential for making video content accessible. Since accurate captions serve as the foundation for many future tools, we want to help you accelerate the review process.For institutions using Studio, we’re testing an assisted solution that proactively highlights caption blocks that need attention. As a result, we expect the caption review process to substantially decrease.
It will be an experimental feature that we will roll out in May to participants in the Early Adopter Program to collect feedback on the experience. Join the Program until May 12th!
Let’s put AI to work - Some future topics in the Program
AI will do a fantastic job with accessible captions. Just a few things that we heard from you recently:
- Caption translations will further aid retention, not to mention the increased comprehension when learners see text in their native language alongside the spoken content.
- Video segmentation (“chaptering”) not only helps learners navigate videos more easily, but it also enables educators to automatically break longer videos into shorter, more digestible pieces, addressing the challenge of decreasing attention spans.
- Video summarization will provide learners with a quick overview of the content, helping them grasp key points efficiently.
We want to hear your voice while we explore these AI topics, so we will keep our Early Adopter Program going through the end of September.
Video Quizzing - Laying the groundwork first
Last year, we had great conversations with ~25 institutions about video quizzing—diving into everything from its role in assessments to the key features missing and, even testing out prototypes for creating quizzes directly from courses. We’re excited to make progress on these learnings but want to note that, with our focus on building and delivering some of the exciting video learning solutions mentioned above, you can expect to see updates related to video quizzing landing in 2026. These changes will be soon reflected on the Studio roadmap.
Join the Studio Early Adopter Program until May 12th!
Best,
Akos
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