Record Video for Assignments and Forums – UCSB Support Desk Collaboration

If you are interested in having students submit a short video (less than 2 minutes) for an assignment or forum, you can have students create and submit them through the GauchoSpace text editor . Also, students will need to have the Atto HTML Editor activated in their profiles and will likely need instructions. There are brief instructions here for submitting but you can direct them to Students: Record Video for Assignment or Forum.

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For assignments, the 'Online text' option will need to be activated in the ‘Edit settings’ page for the assignment. In the ‘Submission types’ section, check the box for ‘Online text’ (see screenshot). Save changes at the bottom.

When students have submitted video recordings for assignments, you can access them through the grading interface (see first screenshot below) or on the view all submissions page (see second screenshot below).

For forums, this option will automatically be available for students that have the Atto HTML Editor activated in their profile.

When students have submitted video recordings for forums, they will be displayed in the forum posts as a playable video (see screenshot).

If you would like to create a video reply, click the 'Reply' link (#1 in screenshot) then click 'Advanced' (#2 in screenshot).

Select the camera icon in the menu and record your response (see screenshot).

For students to submit the videos, they will need to have the Atto HTML Editor activated in their profile preferences. See Student: Record Video for Assignment or Forum for instructions. Once that is done, they can navigate to the assignment or forum activity to submit the video. For the assignment, click the ‘Add submission’ button then use the camera icon located in the text box to start a video recording (see screenshot).

Students will then be prompted with a pop-up to start recording. Click the button and begin recording (see screenshot).

Students can record up to a 2-minute video. Once they are finished recording, they have the option to record again or attach the recording (see screenshot).

Once the video has been attached, be sure to save changes at the bottom. Note that students may still submit other video formats through the file submissions box, but those are limited to 100MB (see screenshot).

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