Download Media Recording from Canvas Speedgrader

How can an instructor download student media recordings from the Canvas Speedgrader?

We've tried enabling the "Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader" feature option. This provides a download option in SpeedGrader but when the teacher clicks on it, they get an access denied message. When I click download as an admin, I am able to download the video. It downloads as a webm file that I can't open or convert or do anything with.

Do you have any advice on how to download student videos to use elsewhere?

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Hildi_Pardo

Hi! Someone asked this question perviously, but way back in 2020. There was a solution provided in 2020 and another in 2025.

Please let us know if one of these work 😉 https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Downloading-Student-Recoded-Media-Videos/m-p/643887

jw2546@cornell.edu

@skreitzer I am told there is a fix for this being tested in Canvas beta instances. My preliminary testing still shows this as an issue.

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