Students in a course can record and submit their or their group's presentation using Zoom and Panopto (if required by the instructor).
This article will review how students can record and submit their presentations in Canvas and how instructors need to set up the assignment in Canvas.
We recommend you use Zoom to create and record your individual or team presentation. Once the recording is complete, the Zoom meeting host can submit the recording link and password to Canvas or upload the video file to the designated Panopto Recordings folder in the Canvas course.
To start, the Zoom meeting host should:
- Go to myhilltop.stedwards.edu and search for Zoom. Sign in to Zoom with your St. Edward's username and password. If this is a group presentation
- After signing in, click "Profile" and look for your Personal Meeting ID and Personal Link.
- Send your Personal Meeting ID and Personal Link to your team members so they can join your meeting.
- During your group's meeting, go to the Zoom meeting host's Personal Link to start the meeting.
- When you're ready to start your presentation, the Zoom meeting host will click "Record" to start a "Cloud recording."
- Note: You must be logged into your St. Edward's Zoom account to see the Cloud Recording option. You can log in to Zoom by going to myHilltop and selecting Zoom.
- After you've completed your presentation, to stop recording, click "Pause/Stop Recording" or "End Meeting."When Zoom processes your recording, the meeting host will receive an email with a URL and Passcode to the meeting recording.
- Copy/paste the URL and Passcode to your assignment.
Step-by-step instructions for starting a meeting, joining a meeting, and recording a meeting can be found on Zoom's support site.
If your students are submitting their presentation using Zoom, set up the assignment as an Online Submission and select the Text Entry submission type. This will give students the Canvas editor to submit the Zoom recording URL and the passcode needed to view the video.
Downloading your Zoom cloud recording
If you recorded your Zoom presentation to the cloud, you must download the recording before uploading it to Panopto.
- Click the link to the recording you received via email.
- Click the download link next to the recording and save the recording to your computer.
Note: The download may include several versions of the file, an audio-only version, a transcript, and the full recording. The version you need to upload to Panopto is the one with the ".mp4 extension."
Uploading your Zoom recording to Panopto
- Navigate to the "Panopto Recordings" area of the course.
- In the Panopto recordings area, click the assignment box.
- In the Assignment folder, click the blue "Create" button.
- Select "Upload Media" from the list.
- Click "Choose Audio or Video Files" and locate the recording you wish to upload.
- Panopto will upload the file, making it visible to your instructor.
- First, you must enable Panopto Recordings and create a Panopto assignment folder in your Canvas course.
- Note: If you want students to share their presentations with the entire class, ensure you enable the "Allow viewers to see each other's sessions" setting when you set up the assignment folder.
- Provide the following instructions to students with the name of your Panopto assignment folder.
Student instructions for uploading a video to Panopto and sharing a link to the video can be found on the St. Edward's University support site.
Q&A Session About Student Presentations
Instructors: If you would like to have a Q&A session about the presentations, you can do that asynchronously using Canvas discussion boards. Just have each presenter or group paste the link to their presentation into the discussion board, and other students can ask questions to which the presenter will respond.
Students: After creating and uploading your recording on the Panopto Recordings page, copy the link (found in the Share button under the video's title) and post it to the Discussion Board.