Allow Students to Respond to Discussions with Video

This guide explains how to create a discussion in Canvas and manage its settings.

There are no special settings necessary to allow video submission in discussions. You and your students can both use the green Panopto embedder button (which looks like a tiny green recycling symbol) in the formatting bar above the Canvas text editor to embed Panopto videos in your replies.

This guide goes into more detail: how to submit video to a Canvas discussion. I recommend sharing it with your students!

Allow Students to Submit Video to Assignments

If you don't wish for students to share their videos with the rest of the class, you can create a Canvas assignment that allows students to submit video only to the instructor.

This guide goes over each step of creating the assignment:

Create a Canvas Assignment for Video Submissions

This guide, which you can share with your students, shows each step of submitting video to the assignment:

Submit Video to a Canvas Assignment

After your assignment has submissions, you can view, grade, and/or comment on the videos using Speedgrader, the grading tool built-in to Canvas.