There are a few areas within the learner view of a course where you can allow your learners to record and upload video comments. This option appears in discussion board threads and comments, as well as individual assignment submissions.
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.
Where do I find this?
Within discussions:
Content > Manage Content > Click on Content Title > Content step > Utilities > Discussions tab
Within assignments:
Content > Manage Content > Click on Content Title > Content step
How do I do this?
To enable discussions:
Once enabled, learners will be able to record and upload video comments directly to the learning site. This is a helpful feature when you want to encourage course-wide communications between learners.
- From your homepage, select Content, then Manage Content.
- 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 enable Discussions Enabled?.
- Click Save.
Assignments:
Along with the ability to record/upload video on discussion threads, there is an option to allow your learners to record a video within assignments.
- From your homepage, select Content, then Manage Content.
- 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, you'll be asked to add your Assignment Info. Within the Assignment Options section, be sure to enable Allow learners to record a video for this assignment?.
- Click Save.
What else do I need to know?
- For more information on discussions, see our Creating a Discussion Board Page article.
- For more information on assignments, see our Creating an Assignment Page article.
- Users will be able to preview their videos, add text and submit video comments.
What does this look like?
Learner View (Discussion Board):

Learner View (Assignment):

Admin View (Within Discussions):

Admin View (Within an Assignment):
