Student: Record Video for Assignment or Forum – UCSB Support Desk Collaboration

Instructors may ask students to submit videos for assignments or forums. While it may be possible to submit those videos as an attachment, it is also possible to create video submissions that are under 2 minutes through the GauchoSpace text editor. This article will discuss the steps to enable this type of submission and the steps for submitting the videos in assignments and forums.

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In order to record videos you will need to have the Atto HTML Editor activated in your profile. This is the default setting for GauchoSpace, but if you do not see the record button please see the section below "Don't see the button to record?"

For assignments, navigate to the assignment and click ‘Add submission.’ Students will then be presented with an online text box. Click the camera icon in the menu to start 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).

For the forum, when students navigate to post a message in the forum, click the camera icon in the menu to open the recording pop-up window (see screenshot).

To begin, students will need to have the Atto HTML editor (default setting) selected in their profile preferences. To check or change this setting, navigate to the home page and click ‘edit my profile’ in the ‘User Overview’ section (see screenshot).

Under the Preferences section in the profile, select ‘Atto HTML editor’ from the dropdown menu for Text editor (see screenshot).

Be sure to click the ‘Update profile’ button at the bottom to save any changes.

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