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  • Canvas
    • Access Canvas
    • Import Content into Your Canvas Course
    • Upload Your Syllabus
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Review the Course-Launch Checklist
    • Publish Your Canvas Course
    • Understanding Your Canvas Courses Menu
  • Get Started In Canvas
    • Basic Computer Specifications for Canvas
    • Canvas-Supported Browsers
    • Customize User Display Settings
    • Customize Your Notifications
    • Your Canvas Dashboard
    • Customize "My Courses"
    • Get Started With The Calendar
    • Canvas on a Mobile Device
    • Link Canvas Courses
  • Design Your Course
    • Options To Organize Content
    • Set Up A Homepage
    • Import Content Into Your Canvas Course
      • Remove announcements when copying a Canvas site
    • Course-level Settings
    • Modify Your Course Menu
    • Get Started with the Rich Content Editor
    • Get Started With Modules
    • Get Started With Pages
    • Get Started With Files
    • Student View
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Library Content
    • Add Media In Canvas
    • Canvas Commons
  • Assignments and Grades
    • Get Started With Assignments
    • Get Started with Quizzes
      • Building a Quiz and Grading a Quiz
      • Quiz Options for Managing Accommodations & Supporting Academic Integrity
    • Get Started with Google Assignments
      • Create a Google Assignment
        • Get Started with the Google Originality Checker
        • Compare Google Grader and Canvas SpeedGrader
        • Compare Google Rubrics and Canvas Rubrics
    • Introducing New Quizzes
      • Migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes
      • Building a New Quiz
      • Accessibility & Accommodations in New Quizzes
      • New Quizzes Support for Academic Integrity
      • Grading New Quizzes
    • Get Started with Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor
      • Enabling LockDown Browser
      • Enabling Respondus Monitor
      • Student Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor Guide 
    • Get Started with the Gradebook
      • Posting Grades and Feedback
      • Student-Facing Grade Notifications
      • Troubleshooting in the Canvas Gradebook
    • Take Attendance In Canvas
    • Student View Of Grades
    • Get Started with SpeedGrader
      • Addressing Bias in SpeedGrader
    • Grading Schemes
    • Rubrics
    • Peer Review
    • Canvas Discussions
      • Discussions: Navigating the Interface
      • Discussions: Locating Groups
      • Discussions: Anonymity & Privacy
  • People and Groups
    • Add People To Canvas
    • User Roles + Permissions
    • Get Started With Groups
    • Get Started With Analytics
  • Model Canvas Courses
  • Canvas Guide for Students
    • Changing Your Display Name and Setting Pronouns
    • Syllabus Search Student Guide
    • Using the Immersive Reader
    • Google Assignments Student Guide

Add Media In Canvas

Updated on January 9, 2025

Canvas provides a password-protected environment to allow posting of curricular materials for enrolled students, as long as Fair Use practices are followed.  CTE staff can assist instructors in determining how best to work with content to meet their teaching goals and address Fair Use concerns.  Please read the Copyright Guidelines, and contact  centerforteaching@bc.edu for help getting started.  Follow the links below to get started with adding media to your Canvas course site. 

Adding your own Media

This feature allows you to record a brief video or audio from within any page, Discussion or Assignment, to speak directly to your students.

Uploading Files Directly into Canvas

This feature allows you to bring in brief video or audio that you have saved on your computer, and add it to any page, Discussion or Assignment.

Uploading Video through Panopto

Panopto can be used to make screen recordings such as narrated PowerPoints or online tutorials.  It can also allow instructors to upload longer recordings they have created outside of Canvas.

Adding YouTube Media 

The rich content editor in Canvas allows you to easily embed YouTube videos to a page, discussion board, or assignment.

Adding Media from BC Libraries

Canvas allows you to link to media from Films on Demand and other databases, as well as audio and video in Library collections.  For more information, see the LibGuide Library and Canvas Integration: Video Resources, and contact centerforteaching@bc.edu for any questions about adding media in Canvas.

For information on discovering content, see the LibGuide on Finding Films: Streaming Video and DVDs or seek help from your Subject Specialist.

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