If you have created asynchronous video lectures for a particular course, and they are uploaded and saved onto GauchoCast, you have the opportunity to reuse those sessions for subsequent quarters. This will save you the time and effort of recreating videos you've previously recorded for a different class or quarter. As long as your existing sessions are saved in a GauchoCast folder, you'll be able to either COPY or MOVE them into a newly provisioned course folder.
Showing and Provisioning the GauchoCast Block in your New Course Site
Whether you are teaching a new course, or the same course but in a different quarter, you will first need to provision a GauchoCast folder for the new course in UCSB Canvas by Adding the GauchoCast Block. This must be done for all new Canvas courses, as provisioning creates a folder whose contents your currently-enrolled students may view.
Student viewing permissions for GauchoCast folders are associated with the corresponding Canvas course site. As a result, you cannot paste links to videos stored in a previous Canvas course folder (unless you've relaxed the default folder sharing settings).
Copying vs. Moving Sessions
Once the new GauchoCast course folder is provisioned, instructors have two options for transferring videos from a previous course folder into a current one. You may either COPY or MOVE sessions. Both functions effectively accomplish the same task, though there is a critical difference that you should consider prior to performing this task:
- If your students access the videos through the GauchoCast Block: Copying or moving the videos will work without issue. Any video saved to the associated course folder on GauchoCast appears under the "Completed Recordings" section of the GauchoCast block. This is true whether you copy, move, upload, or record a new video into the course folder. As long as sessions are saved inside the provisioned folder, they will automatically appear within the GauchoCast block.
HOWEVER,
- If your students access GauchoCast videos through embedded URL links on your imported Canvas course page: Copying videos causes access issues, because direct URL links to videos from your imported previous Canvas site will link to the original videos stored in your former GauchoCast folder. This prevents current students from viewing them, due to the video copies having unique URLs. To retain existing URLs, instructors should "MOVE" their videos, rather than "COPY" them. Video links are an inherent property of the videos themselves and not necessarily based on the folder location it is saved in. Therefore, once you've moved the videos into the newly-provisioned GauchoCast course folder, the imported URL video links (on Canvas) will direct students to the correct GauchoCast folder and students will have permission to view the videos. Note: the moved videos will no longer be located in the previous course folder, nor will they be available to the students in the previous course.
For step-by-step instructions on how to copy or move your existing sessions, please refer to our Help Guide, GauchoCast: Transferring Videos within GauchoCast.
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