Adding and Sharing a YouTube Video through Canvas Studio

This guide provides a straightforward approach to adding and sharing YouTube videos through Canvas Studio, enhancing your teaching resources without redirecting students to external sites. It offers practical tips for organizing videos into folders, making them easily accessible for different classes or subjects. Additionally, it outlines various sharing methods, ensuring that educators can effectively communicate with students, parents, and colleagues. Viewing this guide will streamline your video integration process in Canvas.

Tess Koning
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Adding Videos to Canvas Studio

Navigate to your Canvas Dashboard.

Click "Studio"

Choose Add in the top right corner.

Tip! You will need to have the [YouTube.com](http://YouTube.com) video open in order to complete the process. You can open YouTube in a separate tab and search for the video you wish to use.

Once you have the video open, choose 'Share' below the video.

Copy the video URL.

Navigate back to Canvas Studio.

Paste your YouTube link into the YouTube/Vimeo external link box.

Click "Add Video"

Tip! You can now share the video you created without sending students to YouTube. There are a couple of different ways to do this.

Making Folders for Video Categories

Staff can also create folders in their Canvas Studio library, so that videos can be organized by class, subject, unit, etc. and be easier to find. In Studio, click the "+" button next to My Library.

Create a name for the new collection of videos.

Any collections created by the staff member will appear below My Library. Staff can add videos to collections as needed to share with students. If there is a category of video they no longer need, they can also "Archive" them to remove them from the list.

Sharing Videos in Studio by Email/Embed Code (i.e. colleagues, parents, absent students)

Click "More Actions" for the video you wish to share.

Click "Share Media"

Click "Links"

Click "Create Public Link"

Double-click the "Link" field.

Copy the link and share it with students via email or any other communication tool.

Tip! You can also add the video directly to your Canvas course inside of an assignment or a page.

How to Share a Video with Students in a Canvas Course

Choose which course you wish to add the video to from your Canvas dashboard.

Once you have found your page or assignment you wish you add the video to. And you are in edit mode. Find the 'plug-in' button above the editing window.

Click "View All"

Click "Canvas Studio"

You will be able to choose from all of the videos you have in Canvas Studio.

Click on the video you wish to add and choose 'Select'.

Click "Embed"

Alert! If you don't want students to be able to leave comments on the video for each other to see, be sure to turn off "Display media tabs".

Click "Save"

Alert! Both of these methods will allow you to share videos with students without sending students to YouTube.