Setting Up Canvas Studio and Building Your Library
In this video you'll learn how to set up Canvas Studio in your course (from the zero second mark to the twenty-seven second mark, ) and begin building your Studio library (from the twenty-eight second mark to the fifty-nine second mark, ).
Editing Auto-Generated Captions
Studio generates automatic captions for all video files you upload to Studio. However, these captions are not automatically published. Please review and edit the auto-captions before you publish. The following video (one minute, forty-four seconds long, ) explains how to do it.
Note: Canvas has updated Studio so that now the closed captions can be turned on by clicking on the CC symbol, which is easier to recognize than a toggle button. Please update this information on your Canvas pages as needed.
Requesting Closed Captions
For your videos stored in Canvas Studio, you can also request captioning. This is a good option if your video lectures are long, you have a large number of videos, and editing the auto-generated captions would require too much time. You will need to download those video files from Studio and share them via a Google folder as described on Submitting Videos You Own or Have.
The video below (thirty-nine seconds long, ) shows you how to download your Studio videos.
Download Videos from Canvas Studio:
- Go to Studio in the navigation menu.
- Find the video you want to download and click View.
- Click the three vertical dots on the right side of the video while in view mode and select Download. The video will be downloaded to your downloads folder.
- Once all videos have been downloaded share them via a Google Drive folder.
Adding a YouTube or Vimeo Video to Studio
Because you do not have the ability to upload caption files to other people's YouTube accounts, you will need to place those YouTube videos within Studio (or 3CMedia) so that the caption overlay can be put in place. The video below (twenty-five seconds long, ) shows you how to add a YouTube video to your Studio library.
Embedding Studio Videos in Canvas
To make your Studio content available for you students, you'll need to embed it in a Page, Announcement, or other content delivery method using the Canvas Rich Content Editor (RCE). The video below (one minute, fifty-five seconds long, ) shows you how to embed your videos using this tool.
If you have your own YouTube account, the choice is yours on how to submit your videos. You can either:
- Provide copies of the original video files as shown in the Google Drive demonstration, or
- You can submit the URLs for the video as demonstrated in the Using YouTube and Other Public Sites tutorial.
Got Questions?
Contact your college's Universal Design and Accessibility (UDA) Coordinator or check out our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information.