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The Center of Innovative Design and Instruction (CIDI) needed a way to teach professors and faculty how to best utilize their two newly-released templates on Canvas LMS: Visual and "Bare Bones" templates. My supervisor heard about my expertise with video production and instructional design and asked me to create tutorial videos for those two templates.
Objective: Create effective and engaging videos to instruct professors and faculty at Utah State University showing how to best access and utilize the Visual and "Bare Bones" templates on the Canvas LMS.
Gagne's Events of Instruction
Equipment: My HD Canon Vixia R500 video camera and tripod (for the introduction video), Blue Snowball microphone, Audacity, After Effects (for the Visual Template Basics video), Premiere Pro, Canvas LMS and Kaltura Capture
Development Process: For the introduction video of the series, I placed my camera on a tripod near my desk and posed myself as a teacher trying to construct an online course using Canvas. Then, I recorded myself informing the teacher about Canvas's two templates. After recording myself with my camera and my voice using my Blue Snowball microphone, I compiled and edited all of the elements together using Adobe Premiere Pro.
For each of the tutorial videos, I wrote a script explaining each of the Canvas template features, along with how to create Discussions, Assignments and Quizzes using the Visual and "Bare Bones" templates. When the script was approved, I recorded my lines using my microphone and Audacity recording software. Afterwards, I used Kaltura Capture to record my screen as I demonstrated how to use the two templates and how to create Discussions, Assignments and Quizzes. Lastly, I used Adobe Premiere Pro to combine and edit the audio and visual elements together.
While editing the Visual Template Basics video, I noticed that the recording bar was still visible. For that, I used the Content-Aware Fill tool in After Effects to cover the bar with the background, though it became too complex for the program to apply the filter in some of the clips in the video.
Objective: Create effective and engaging videos to instruct professors and faculty at Utah State University showing how to best access and utilize the Visual and "Bare Bones" templates on the Canvas LMS.
Gagne's Events of Instruction
- Gaining Attention:
Equipment: My HD Canon Vixia R500 video camera and tripod (for the introduction video), Blue Snowball microphone, Audacity, After Effects (for the Visual Template Basics video), Premiere Pro, Canvas LMS and Kaltura Capture
Development Process: For the introduction video of the series, I placed my camera on a tripod near my desk and posed myself as a teacher trying to construct an online course using Canvas. Then, I recorded myself informing the teacher about Canvas's two templates. After recording myself with my camera and my voice using my Blue Snowball microphone, I compiled and edited all of the elements together using Adobe Premiere Pro.
For each of the tutorial videos, I wrote a script explaining each of the Canvas template features, along with how to create Discussions, Assignments and Quizzes using the Visual and "Bare Bones" templates. When the script was approved, I recorded my lines using my microphone and Audacity recording software. Afterwards, I used Kaltura Capture to record my screen as I demonstrated how to use the two templates and how to create Discussions, Assignments and Quizzes. Lastly, I used Adobe Premiere Pro to combine and edit the audio and visual elements together.
While editing the Visual Template Basics video, I noticed that the recording bar was still visible. For that, I used the Content-Aware Fill tool in After Effects to cover the bar with the background, though it became too complex for the program to apply the filter in some of the clips in the video.
Credits
Background music from YouTube's Sound Library.