Canvas Studio
Break the fourth wall with interactive video learning.
Video alone isn’t enough. With Canvas Studio, you can turn watching into learning—adding questions, feedback, and conversations right inside Canvas.
Put learners in the director's chair
Canvas Studio gets learners thinking, questioning, and engaging, building deeper understanding through active participation.
Learner-created content
Learners can produce their own videos as assignment submissions, presentations, peer feedback, or ways to practice.
Peer-to-peer collaboration
Learners can discuss content with peers through inline threaded comments and share feedback on each other’s video submissions.
Educator input
Learners benefit from timely, specific feedback on their video submissions and reflective annotations on assigned content.
Good content deserves better systems
Everyone has their own way of using video. Canvas Studio keeps things flexible for learners and educators, while helping you stay in control of your content.
Add from anywhere
Learners and educators can upload videos or link from YouTube directly into their courses. They can even record their screen in-browser.
Centralise and organise
Create, manage, and share videos in all major formats using your own Canvas-hosted media library.
Track and act on relevant data
See who’s watching, where interest peaks or dips, and adjust your content to keep learners engaged.
Add inline quizzes to check comprehension, reinforce key concepts, and provide instant feedback.
Canvas Studio works seamlessly with Canvas LMS, so you can apply rubrics, use SpeedGrader, and sync marks to the Gradebook.
And now: our feature presentation
In-video discussions
Learning happens when participants are prompted to react, critique, interact, and ask questions in the moment. No matter where learners are watching from, Studio allows them to share ideas, ask each other questions, and offer feedback by commenting directly on the videos they're all watching.
Embedded quizzes
By adding quiz questions directly into the video timeline, educators can prompt learners to demonstrate their understanding of a subject or skill as they go, while increasing their likelihood of engagement with the content.
Distraction-free + continued student privacy
This integration streams YouTube videos in Canvas Studio without distractions, recommendations, or link-backs. It also keeps viewers anonymous to YouTube through a “signed-out” viewing state and provides captioning from YouTube to maintain accessibility.
Auto-captions and caption files
Canvas Studio provides editable automatic captions, caption uploads and downloads, and integrations with professional captioning services to make your video content ultra-accessible. Educators can edit caption files in real time, in their choice of 19 languages, and captions are preserved when trimming or sharing media.
Adaptive streaming
Adaptive streaming makes it possible for more learners to access video content, regardless of their internet bandwidth.
Media library
Create, deliver, host, and organise video content in all major formats in your own intuitive media library that simplifies video content management. You can also share libraries among colleagues.
Media editor
After uploading a file to your media library, use the Studio media editor to easily make changes.
Videos from virtually anywhere, all inside Canvas
Canvas Studio integrates seamlessly with the video platforms users know and love, so that they don't have to waste time converting file formats or searching for content elsewhere. They can tap into the ever-expanding library of videos in YouTube, Vimeo, Zoom, and more, and interact with the assets right inside Canvas. They can also natively screen capture and record with Studio Capture (for Chrome and Edge).
Video insights
See details about how viewers interact with your media from the Insights media tab. Canvas Studio Insights show usage metrics, interactive graphs, and a searchable viewer list that displays individual viewer completion rates. You can also export the viewer list as a CSV file.
Admin analytics
As an admin, you can view usage data for your institution's Studio account. Media analytics include data about media count, duration, storage, and the number of courses with embedded media. User analytics include the number of users in your account, as well as the top ten users by upload and storage.
Admin media management
Studio Admins can view and manage your institution's entire account. You can search to locate media or sort media by course use, user name, or alphabetical order. You can also see upload and viewing history, tag and delete media, and manage users' details, roles, and media libraries.
Explore the Instructure ecosystem
Canvas
Open, adaptable, user friendly, and future ready—Canvas is North America's most-loved learning management system.
Canvas is built for:
- efficient, effective teaching
- equitable, accessible learning
- flexible, scalable integration
- community-powered innovation
Canvas Catalog
Canvas Catalog allows you to promote, centralise, and brand your continuing education and professional learning programs in an online marketplace.
Canvas Catalog is built for:
- discoverable course listings and programs
- seamless enrollment and payment workflows
- professional, continuing, and vocational learning
- custom branding and configuration
Canvas Studio
Canvas Studio is the two-way video platform that turns passive watching into active learning.
Canvas Studio is built for:
- seamless video creation and sharing
- interactive discussions inside the video timeline
- actionable analytics to track engagement
- integration across courses, devices, and the Canvas LMS
Award Digital Badges
Parchment Award Digital Badges makes it easy to guide learners, show progress, and connect skills to real opportunities utilising digital credentials.
With Award Digital Badges you can:
- design and deliver skills-based credential to learners
- align every badge to real job roles, skills, and salary benchmarks
- automate badge issuance and tie credentials to academic and career progress
Impact by Instructure
Actionable, embedded, and built for education, Impact helps you drive adoption and prove edtech ROI.
Impact was built for:
- measuring LMS and tool usage in real time
- guiding users with in-app messaging and support
- improving outcomes with data-informed decisions
Mastery Item Bank
Rigorous, ready, and classroom-tested—Mastery Item Bank delivers the high-quality content educators need to build effective formative assessments.
With Mastery Item Bank you can:
- align to state and national standards
- support diverse learners with varied item types
- provide meaningful data through expertly tagged content
Mastery Assessments
Mastery Assessments help educators predict outcomes for state assessments and improve student outcomes.
Mastery Assessment is built to help you:
- accurately predict student performance on year-end state assessment
- support formative and summative assessment
- individualize student learning strategies
There's so much you can do with interactive video
There's so much you can do with interactive video
Canvas customers use Studio in creative ways, from K–12 through to professional learning. Let’s explore what it could do for you.