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Presentations and video assessments

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Live Presentations

  • Students can deliver individual or group presentations live during  online synchronous sessions in Zoom or Teams as part of your assessment. Consider:  

    • Do your students normally present to other students as well as to you, and are the other students required to ask questions?  
    • How will questions and dialogues be facilitated?  
    • Is this accessible to all students? Consider those with limited technology (mobile phones) or faulty technology (poor internet), students in different time zones, or students with SSPs (Student Support Plans).  The guidance onconsiderations for teaching and studying with poor internetmay be helpful.  
    • How do you normally provide feedback?  
    • How can summative presentations be recorded for second marking or moderation? Could formative presentations benefit from recording?  
    • How are auxiliary materials submitted?  
  • Assessing online presentation 

Watching each other’s presentation provided a mutual learning opportunity and the marking criteria were shared with the students to enable a differentiated understanding of the grade.

Dr Jessica Komes on assessing students via peer-reviewed video presentations

Video assessments and recorded presentations

You can ask students to record and submit a video for assessment, which may be a recorded alternative to a live presentation, or another type of video content. 

There are a number of options available.  The information below is designed to help you decide on the most appropriate method for students to create their recordings, and on the best option to manage the submission and marking. 

Methods for students to create recordings

 

Narrated PowerPoint  

Creating a narrated PowerPoint presentationallows the user to record:  

To submit their work students can save their work as either a standard PowerPoint file, or an MP4 video file.  Note that if you opt to use a Canvas Media Assignment or a ReCap Assignment student must submit a video file.    

The section Submission and Marking below summarises the assignment options available for the different file types.  We recommend that you decide on the assignment type you are going to use before giving instructions to the students about which file type you require them to submit. 

 

Zoom or Teams 

Zoom and Teams meetings both offer recording functionality.  A student can start a meeting using their Zoom or Teams account and can record the meeting. This method allows the user to record any or all of these elements:  

  • Their voice through the microphone  
  • A presentation shared on screen, e.g. PowerPoint  
  • Other applications or material shared on screen  
  • Their webcam to include video of them presenting  

 

Recording a presentation in a Zoom or Teams meeting can be a good option for students to deliver a group presentation.  A group of students can join an online meeting set up by one of the groupand can record themselves delivering the presentation together.  

Note that it is not possible to edit a recording within Zoom or Teams.  If students wish to edit their recordings before they submit them, they can upload the recording to Microsoft Stream and edit in that application.  

 

Record video on their device  

If students need to create videos of something other than a presentation, you could ask them to record using a webcam with their laptop or desktop computer, or the camera on a tablet or mobile phone.  There are Hints and Tips for recording videos available that could be helpful to share with your students.  

Submission and Marking

 

There are several options to allow students to submit a video recording in Canvas. The most appropriate option will depend on your requirements, including the potential size of the video files, how you want to mark the videos, and whether you want students to be able to view each other’s videos.    

The table below summarises the options. For each assignment type there are links to guides on how to create the assignment, and to student guides for submitting their work. 

 

 

Canvas Assignment: 
Media Recording  

Canvas Assignment: 
File Upload  

ReCap Assignment  

Suitable file types  

Video  

Video 
Narrated PowerPoint (.ppt or .pptx files)  

Video  

File size limit  

500MB  

5GB  

No limit  

How to set up 
an assignment?  

Create Canvas Assignment for Online Submission:Media Recording 

Create Canvas Assignment for Online Submission:File Upload   

Create an Assignment Folder in ReCap, and Create a ReCap submission Assignment in Canvas  

Individual or group 
assignment?  

Both  

Both  

Both  

How do students submit? 

Upload file or record video 
directly in Canvas Assignment 

Upload file to Canvas Assignment

Upload file to ReCap within Canvas Assignment 

Who can view videos?  

Staff with access to the course can view videos 

The student or group of students who submitted can view their video 
 

Staff with access to the course can view videos 

The student or group of students who submitted can view their video 

Staff with access to the course can view videos 

 

The student who submitted   can view their video 

 

Choose whether or not to allow students to view each other’s videos 

Marking and 
feedback options  

 

You can view the video in Speed Grader 

 

 
Make overall comments in Speed Grader 

For a Video: download the file to view the video  

For a Narrated PowerPoint: view the slides in Speed Grader 
and create annotations; download to play narration  

 

Make overall comments in Speed Grader 
 

You can view the video in Speed Grader, or pop out into Panopto viewer to access more tools  

Make overall comment in Speed Grader  

Annotations (using timestamped notes) can be made in Panopto 
(if students are allowed to view each other’s videos the notes will also be visible) 

Non-assessed student videos

If your students need to create and share videos that are not part of a formal assessment and do not need to be marked, you can ask them to share the videos in Canvas either in a Discussion, or on a Page that is set up to allow students to edit it. 

The best way for students to share their videos depends on the file size. 

Video files up to 250MB 

Video files larger than 250MB