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Tips & Tricks
Post/Embed Videos
Best Practices
Video for Activities
Video with Accessibility
Video for Copyright/Fair Use

Topic: Tip & Tricks for using video in a remote course:

Use video to communicate with your students, or provide class/personal feedback.
Record and post a lecture
Record a welcome video and regular announcements.
Take them on a virtual field trip.
Do a virtual lab, or recreate an experiment.
Perform short tutorials.
Webinar or live lecture.
Video conferencing and virtual office hours.

Topic: Post/Embed videos:

You can post videos anywhere you find the Canvas Rich Content Editor. This includes pages, assignments, discussions, etc.
1. Post a Video Link
  - Login into your YuJa account and go to where your video is located.
  - Hover over the video and select "More."
  - Select "Links" and copy the link under "Direct Link."
  - You could paste that into your Canvas course or link the URL to a word.
2. Embed a Video
  - Click on "More External Tools."
  - Select "YuJa Media 2.0."
  - Select which video you would link to embed.
You can even have students upload videos in discussion posts or as a file submission for assignments.
The preferred method for posting videos is through your YuJa account. This is the same whether you upload your own lecture or link from third party hosts like YouTube or Vimeo. See Step 3: Upload a Captioned Video to learn more about uploading or embedding videos into your course with YuJa.

Topic: Best Practices for Using Video in your Remote Classroom:

Use relevant salutations and remain consistent. Consider the video intro/outro you want to mark all of your personal videos.
Consider breaking up large content/long lectures. Watching a lecture video remotely is not the same as sitting through a live lecture. 20 minutes maximum is a good rule of thumb for posting instructional videos.

Other Suggestions from Faculty:

Speaker enthusiasm helps maintain interest. Vary voice volume so it's not monotone. Be confident!
A quick pace is good but not so quick that the student can't follow (especially important when the presenter has a strong accent).
Showing is better than telling when possible, use visual aids and make sure your lighting is good so they can be clearly seen.
Minimize distractions such as other people, unrelated or confusing visuals, and noises such as mouse clicks, fans, etc.
Avoid zooming, switching between cameras, and other camera movements as they can make some people "seasick."
Talk to the camera, not the lectern or the computer.
Avoid video that doesn't go beyond the textbook.
Note:Reading slides (especially with lists of bullet points) is not helpful or engaging.

The bottom line is, does the video keep your attention? If you were dozing or multitasking while the video was playing the odds are good your students will be also.

More Resources:

Creating effective instructional videos for remote courses.

Assignments:

Post videos into the assignment instructions as a prompt or supplemental instruction.
Provide a tutorial for successful completion of the assignment.
Record video feedback for assignments

Discussion

Post a thought-provoking video in the Discussion Board instructions to spark meaningful discussion.
Require or encourage students to post their own recordings about the topic.

Quizzes

Post a video directly into the quiz instructions or in individual questions for students to watch and respond to.
Create video quizzes with questions embedded directly into them.

More Resources

Topic: Accessibility Best Practices

Provide a transcript for video/audio recordings.
Provide captions for video recordings.
Provide a screen-reader friendly version of any informative visual aids that appear in a video.(Alternate text of each image).
Avoid referring to portions of visual aids with demonstrative pronouns. Instead of this line/that line, label the lines and refer to them by the labels, for example.
Whenever possible, use media distribution services provided by campus.

More Resources

Instructional Resources | Accessibility | UCI
The Colour Contrast Analyzer can provide assurance that the color choices you’re using in a visual aid will not confuse your students who may be color blind.
Born Accessible, a short video by CITL Instructional Media Resources.

Topic: Copyright/Fair Use

Video Learning!

"Video learning holds an important place in the new learning environment of (higher) education and has helped to reinvent the way people learn. Video is a powerful way to build and maintain student engagement in classrooms and to ensure that learning can take place at a deeper level. When students are able to see something in action and interact with it in more than one way they process the information in a manner that builds lasting connections..." - Scott N. Romaniuk

Using Video In Higher Education