Identify Course Video Content
Last updated by christopher.phillips 4 years agoIdentify Video Content
While not all Canvas courses have videos, most do - and the ones on our list should generally have at least some videos and it is your job to find those videos! We want to identify as many videos as possible. Specifically, we are looking to identify videos in a course that are ready to caption or that need to be made ready to caption.
Tools to Help Find Video Content
You can find videos in a course in many different locations including:
Course Report Tool (available as bookmarklets )
Using those tools you can click through the content to identify where videos are in the course.
Videos Formats to Include (or Not)
Video will generally fall into one of the following categories that we will handle in different ways:
Kaltura videos
This is our preferred format - Kaltura videos are generally (but not always) embedded on a page and can be identified by the player controls with the Aggie A in the bottom right:
This is our preferred format - Kaltura videos are generally (but not always) embedded on a page and can be identified by the player controls with the Aggie A in the bottom right:
YouTube Videos
Many instructions use YouTube Videos - these don’t have a clear indicator, but the player controls usually look something like this:
Many instructions use YouTube Videos - these don’t have a clear indicator, but the player controls usually look something like this:
Video Files
Canvas also allows a teacher to add a video file directly into Canvas - as an MP4, WMV, etc… These videos can be identified using Tidy UP and filtering by “Video Files” to see all videos in a course and where they are used:
Canvas also allows a teacher to add a video file directly into Canvas - as an MP4, WMV, etc… These videos can be identified using Tidy UP and filtering by “Video Files” to see all videos in a course and where they are used:
There may be videos from other sources - such as an embedded video from Vimeo, a newspaper or other content site that is not Kaltura or YouTube.
For this project we will be working to get all Kaltura Files, YouTube Files and Video files into the Canvas Course Media Gallery, we will not be addressing videos from other sources (category 4) semester specific lecture videos, or music videos (see below).
Semester Specific Lecture Videos
Some courses include lectures that are only used for that semester and are unlikely to be viewed by many students. Determining which videos fall into this category is a little fuzzy and requires considering a few factors to consider:
Videos (generally in Zoom or Kaltura) that are recordings of the classroom lecture delivered in a face-to-face classroom - either from a prior semester or current semester.
Videos that are in the course as supplementary or “for people who missed a class”. These are often Zoom videos or zoom recordings.
There are some lecture videos that instructors use over multiple semesters that should be captioned. Considerations include:
Videos have higher production value - for example, nice slides or an instructor sitting down in a video studio.
Videos with No Speech
For this project, if you come across a video with no speech (generally music videos) then they should not be done.
Other Video Considerations
Dual Videos
Sometimes there is a Kaltura video that is actually comprised of 2 videos - one video inside of the other, with the inside video moveable around. In those cases - you should add the captions to the primary video - the one that is largest when you open the video.
