Is there a way for course owners (and administrators) to see directly from the course’s Studio gallery whether each video is embedded in Canvas, and if so, to quickly identify which page it appears on?
If I am understanding your questions correctly:
-Doug
Thank you @dbrace for your response - much appreciated.
It is correct that if users embed Studio videos on a page, then the videos will be listed in the studio gallery. However, if a user uploads videos but does not embed them into a page, the videos will still be listed in the Studio library. What I'd really like to be able to differentiate on is whether any video listed in a studio gallery has been embedded into a course page and ideally a link to follow that link. There are multiple use cases attached to this functionality eg. removing unused videos, avoiding deletion of a video that is linked to a page, etc.
Anyway, it might be something that becomes available in the future.
@CarolaUSC - if your institution enabled the IgniteAI agent, a course instructor could write a prompt such as this here:
What pages/ assignments/ discussion topics have a Studio video using the instructure media link in the url within the HTML? Here is the start of the url: https:// abcdf.instructuremedia.com . I've found that the Ignite agent doesn't currently handle multiple requests well. So ask about pages then assignments, etc.
I did this for a course I am teaching in January, and it listed all locations perfectly.
A more complex approach would be for your Canvas administrator and/or IT team to use Canvas Data and the Studio API to list the locations that have a text string that indicates where the Studio media objects are located (abcdf.instructuremedia.com ) and to link up the media asset id to list the page/assignment/etc. titles, etc. As this is a bit of a project, ahead of doing this I'd ask what the purpose is for this information. For example, is the administration wanting to know how Studio is being used in courses?
Or are you just wanting to give instructors an idea of video usage?
If the question is the latter, recall that for each course a Course Collection is created with Studio. A course instructor can go to Studio > My Library > select the course name and then see the Studio videos within the course. This does not include public links or embeds.
Edit 12/21 - one additional method that should be mentioned is to use the IgniteAI Search tool using a text string such as: instructuremedia.com. I noticed a few false positives, but that is still so much faster than clicking page by page.
Thank you for your response @Jeff_F - much appreciated!
We have run scripts in the past and they worked well. We'll also look into the Ignite AI option once we have it enabled.
I'm still hoping that this might become a feature in Studio so that we don't have to go through all of the above to identify the pages Studio videos are embedded into …
