How Can Canvas Studio Turn YouTube Videos into Engaging Learning Experiences
Turn your video content into engaging, interactive learning with Canvas Studio. In this walkthrough, you’ll see how to upload and record videos—from YouTube, Vimeo, or directly within the platform—and enhance them with built-in tools. Add quizzes, layer in annotations, and provide real-time feedback to create meaningful video learning experiences. You can also track how learners interact with your videos and monitor their progress through detailed analytics. With Canvas Studio, every video becomes an opportunity for active learning and deeper understanding.
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Welcome to Canvas. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at Canvas Studio and how it can integrate your video content. Studio is a content management system that allows us to record a series of different video assets, either adding them directly from our device or uploading from YouTube or Vimeo. We can also record directly from our platform if we have a camera, either screen capturing, audio, or video recordings. Coming back into Studio now, we can have a look at all the videos we've uploaded in the past, some of these being uploaded by YouTube directly. YouTube's made a recent change around how advertisements are presented to users using the YouTube embedding engine, and Studio actually ensures that this does not occur through a Studio embedded videos, so students will not see ads when they're integrating in one of these Studio videos.
But once we have a video, we can do a whole few different things. We can either create quizzes based off that video. So opening up an existing quiz now, we can see that we're asking the video to pause a particular elements in time and quizzing based off multiple choice, true or false, or multiple answer. We can also edit and review our previous questions and the question feedback that will be presented to our users. Coming back to the home page now, we can also create a series of different annotations on the videos.
So if we want the video to pause at a particular element in time and create a headline or link to an external resource, we can have this pause for the user and present that annotation note card. The last piece of functionality here is around editing so we can create edits on our video content directly by cutting and trimming different elements in time before submitting this video either to our course or as a student submitting it as part of an assessment. So let's have a look how studio videos are presented to the user. The video embedded directly into a page will play the video content, and we've enabled users to be able to comment on this content. These are actually time stamped and will be presented to the user as they work their way through the different piece of material popping up on the screen.
As a teacher, we can also see some insights into how our users are interacting with our video content. So we can see how many unique viewers we have, the total number of plays, and we can see the completion rates of unique users within our system popping up a completion graph to see if they're jumping through the content as well. We bring a video quiz in, we can individually play the video, have the video pause at elements in time, And then pop up and quiz the user based off that context. Can either answer this question and continue on through the video or rewatch that segment. In addition, we can see the quiz results of our students as they're submitting and the total number of attempts so we can track how our users are essentially progressing through this video content.
Coming back to our studio menu menu, once we have a video recorded, we can share this piece of media directly with users within the system, either giving them edit or view permissions, we can actually create public facing links. So if we want to create a link that we can put out to external resources that link back to our organization, anybody can access these or we can embed them on our website. Other content sharing controls we have is around shared libraries, so we can create shared libraries, essentially building out our different video assets across the board. We can also create course collections according to the courses that we're enrolled in, allowing our teachers to portably move the content across and all access the same resources if there's multiple teachers teaching within a specific course. Coming to the top of the screen, we can adjust our settings.
So if we want to set up auto captioning as well as auto publishing for captions, we can set up a few different permission sets as well around who can record media at devices. Students have access to Studio as well, So we can give, them permissions to either record and add media from different devices including YouTube. Finally we can view some admin analytics around the trends of our data. So how many files are being upload across time? What is our storage utilization? What's the total media length in hours and total amount of courses with media. We can also view a summary of this data below including the monthly data around our storage utilisation we can download all of this as CSV as well.
We can also manage our media directly so if we wanted to see which courses are utilizing the most media storage we can narrow this down as well including at a user level to see which users are storing the most content. Zoom can also be integrated directly with Studio, essentially porting through these recordings directly into your Studio account as they're occurring, and this can be configured via the integration itself. On top of the captioning capabilities within Studio, Studio also drastically extends the size of the videos we can store within the platform. By default, Canvas LMS will allow five hundred megabytes of media storage within a specific course. Studio extends that to ten gigabytes after the video has been transcribed. So the video is going to be shrunk down to a portable format that works both between mobile and desktop, and after that shrinking has occurred, the new limit is ten gigabytes of storage, allowing us to store multiple hours of footage or extremely long pieces of media directly within the platform.
But once we have a video, we can do a whole few different things. We can either create quizzes based off that video. So opening up an existing quiz now, we can see that we're asking the video to pause a particular elements in time and quizzing based off multiple choice, true or false, or multiple answer. We can also edit and review our previous questions and the question feedback that will be presented to our users. Coming back to the home page now, we can also create a series of different annotations on the videos.
So if we want the video to pause at a particular element in time and create a headline or link to an external resource, we can have this pause for the user and present that annotation note card. The last piece of functionality here is around editing so we can create edits on our video content directly by cutting and trimming different elements in time before submitting this video either to our course or as a student submitting it as part of an assessment. So let's have a look how studio videos are presented to the user. The video embedded directly into a page will play the video content, and we've enabled users to be able to comment on this content. These are actually time stamped and will be presented to the user as they work their way through the different piece of material popping up on the screen.
As a teacher, we can also see some insights into how our users are interacting with our video content. So we can see how many unique viewers we have, the total number of plays, and we can see the completion rates of unique users within our system popping up a completion graph to see if they're jumping through the content as well. We bring a video quiz in, we can individually play the video, have the video pause at elements in time, And then pop up and quiz the user based off that context. Can either answer this question and continue on through the video or rewatch that segment. In addition, we can see the quiz results of our students as they're submitting and the total number of attempts so we can track how our users are essentially progressing through this video content.
Coming back to our studio menu menu, once we have a video recorded, we can share this piece of media directly with users within the system, either giving them edit or view permissions, we can actually create public facing links. So if we want to create a link that we can put out to external resources that link back to our organization, anybody can access these or we can embed them on our website. Other content sharing controls we have is around shared libraries, so we can create shared libraries, essentially building out our different video assets across the board. We can also create course collections according to the courses that we're enrolled in, allowing our teachers to portably move the content across and all access the same resources if there's multiple teachers teaching within a specific course. Coming to the top of the screen, we can adjust our settings.
So if we want to set up auto captioning as well as auto publishing for captions, we can set up a few different permission sets as well around who can record media at devices. Students have access to Studio as well, So we can give, them permissions to either record and add media from different devices including YouTube. Finally we can view some admin analytics around the trends of our data. So how many files are being upload across time? What is our storage utilization? What's the total media length in hours and total amount of courses with media. We can also view a summary of this data below including the monthly data around our storage utilisation we can download all of this as CSV as well.
We can also manage our media directly so if we wanted to see which courses are utilizing the most media storage we can narrow this down as well including at a user level to see which users are storing the most content. Zoom can also be integrated directly with Studio, essentially porting through these recordings directly into your Studio account as they're occurring, and this can be configured via the integration itself. On top of the captioning capabilities within Studio, Studio also drastically extends the size of the videos we can store within the platform. By default, Canvas LMS will allow five hundred megabytes of media storage within a specific course. Studio extends that to ten gigabytes after the video has been transcribed. So the video is going to be shrunk down to a portable format that works both between mobile and desktop, and after that shrinking has occurred, the new limit is ten gigabytes of storage, allowing us to store multiple hours of footage or extremely long pieces of media directly within the platform.