If you'd like to add an element of interactivity to your content, you can allow your learners to record and upload video comments to better engage course-wide with both content and other learners.
Use Case Information
Once enabled, learners will be able to record and upload video comments within discussions and assignments. This option is available in the following course areas:
| Discussion Pages in Courses | Always Enabled |
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Discussion Utilities in Courses |
Always Enabled |
| Assignments | Option to Enable |
| Discussion Assignments | Option to Enable |
Users can preview their videos, add text, and submit video comments.
Video Recording is a premium feature and behind a feature flag.
Reach out to Thought Industries Tech Success & Support for assistance to enable this feature in your instance.
Video Recording in Discussions
Allow learners to engage with each other on another level by allowing videos to be added to threads. If you have video recording enabled in your site, this video option will appear to learners on any discussion within a course. All you need to do is make sure you are utilizing discussion pages or utilities in your course!
To enable discussions utilities across course pages:
Enabling this will display discussions at the bottom of each course page. The option to record/upload a video will appear by default to the learner.
- From your homepage, select Courses, then All Courses.
- Click the Content Title for the course you want to alter and you'll land on the Content step.
- From the left sidebar, select Utilities.
- Go to the Discussions tab and toggle Discussions Enabled? to Yes.
- Click Save.
Tip
Curious to learn more about discussions? See our Creating a Discussion Board Page article.
Video Recordings in Assignments
Along with the ability to record and upload video on discussion threads, you can allow your learners to record a video within assignments. For more information on assignments, see our Creating an Assignment Page article.
- From your homepage, select Courses, then All Courses.
- Click the Content Title for the course you want to alter and you'll land on the Content step.
- Within the course outline, go to the lesson where you'd like to add an assignment page. Click Add Page.
- Choose the assignment page type, give it a title, and then click Save.
- Next, add your Assignment Info.
- Within the Assignment Options section, be sure to toggle Allow learners to record a video for this assignment? to Yes. Refer to Creating an Assignment page for further details about page setup.
- Click Save.
Learner Experience
Learners will see an option to record or upload a video where configured. Once a video is submitted, a learner will see an option to Redo the take, cancel the submission, or continue to submit the video to the discussion or assignment.
Learner View of Discussion page:Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the video recording provider?
The video provider is Ziggeo.
Why am I seeing a Ziggeo token in the source code?
Ziggeo uses both a private and a public token. The token that is visible is the public token, which is designed to be accessible to everyone.
For more details, you can refer to Ziggeo's Support Article. Here’s a key excerpt for quick reference:
“When you create your application, you get 3 different keys and tokens to use. One is the Application token – a public token that you [TI] specify so our code knows where to upload your media or play it from. This one is most often used, and it is fine to be shared with anyone.”