PowerPoint: Sharing Lecture Video for Online Learning using Canvas
PowerPoint: Sharing Lecture Video for Online Learning using Canvas
Created by the Rowan University Libraries Digital Scholarship Center, this video tutorial introduces users to sharing a PowerPoint video lecture for online learning using Google Drive and Canvas. The tutorial shows the step-by-step process of linking a video file on Google Drive with the Canvas learning management system. The same technique can be used to link audio files.
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Transcript:
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Hello and welcome to our tutorial on how to share
a PowerPoint lecture video for online learning
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using the Canvas LMS. In our previous videos
we explored recording a voiceover lecture
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using PowerPoint. We also explored exporting
a PowerPoint video lecture as a video file.
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We also learned how to compress our video
files making them easier and quicker to access
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in an online learning environment.
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In this tutorial we will learn how to share
lecture videos using the Google Drive platform
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and the Canvas learning management system.
If you're new to online learning and using a
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learning management system such as Canvas you're
probably wondering why we would use Google Drive.
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Why not just upload the video files directly to
the LMS? Well you can do this but most learning
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management systems have very limited storage space
because these systems are very expensive to run
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and maintain. Using a system like Google
Drive allows you to host all of your course
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videos without using the very expensive storage
allocated through the learning management system.
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If you have not used Google Drive check out
our Google Drive tutorials. We have step-by-step
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tutorials on accessing and uploading files to
your drive and also tutorials on other Google apps.
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We've added a link to these tutorials in the
description below. I should also mention that
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Google's Chrome browser is made for use
with Google's apps such as Google Drive.
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If you use Chrome you can drag files from any
location from your computer into your Google Drive.
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The Chrome browser also includes a convenient
icon right here to access your Google Drive
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account and apps. Once in the Google
Drive I can go to the course folder.
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Here we have the what is art presentation
file and the video file which is an m4v file.
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The m4v format is a video container that is
very similar to mp4. It should work great on
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all modern computers and mobile devices. To link
the video lecture with our Canvas course we will
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need to set the permissions of the video file. To
do that, right-click or control-click on the video
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file. Select get shareable link then select the
restricted menu and select anyone with the link.
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From here we want to copy the link
by clicking here then press done. Then
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we will log in to our Canvas course and scroll
down to the correct week for this lecture. To
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add an item we click the plus button. In theory
we could add an external link, however, Canvas
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doesn't always like shared links from Google
Drive and other systems that share media files.
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I prefer to create a new page and then insert the
link within this page. To do this we'll select page,
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then the New Page option. We then need to add
a page name here. Once completed select the add
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item button. The next step is to go to the lecture
within your Canvas course and open the page.
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Then click the edit button near the upper right
corner. I prefer to create a brief description
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and then underneath I add the text, Video Lecture
which we will use to create the link to the video.
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Select the text and then press this icon, the Link
to URL button. Earlier we copied the Google link
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for our video lecture. If needed, go back to
your Google Drive folder and copy the link
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and then paste it in Canvas.
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Once added, click the insert link button then
scroll down and select the save button. To test
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your link, go back to the page for this lecture and
select the link. The video will open in a new page.
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One final tip. When you have fully uploaded
a video to Google Drive it will take a few
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minutes for the video to process. If the video
has not finished processing in Google Drive
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then when you click the link in Canvas
you will get a window similar to this.
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If you wait a few more minutes and
try again the video should open
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and you can start watching
directly within the browser window.
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We hope this series has helped you with
creating video lectures for your online courses.
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If you need assistance with your creative
project or research please let us know here
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at the Rowan University Libraries. We're happy
to help in any way we can. Thanks for watching.