Record an audio or video file in D2L Brightspace

Overview

Within a D2L Brightspace class, students may have the option to record an audio file or a video file from various places, such as Assignments and Discussions. Audio or video recordings can be a useful supplement to written text. 

• The length of audio recording is typically up to five (5) minutes per recording.
• The length of video recording is typically up to thirty (30) minutes per recording.

If you use the ‘record audio’ or 'record video' feature within D2L Brightspace, it is highly recommend that you provide a text equivalent of the recording, so the information is accessible to the recipient(s). Machine-captions can be ordered for each recording.

Record video options in D2L Brightspace

Students have access to the 'record audio' and ‘record video’ feature within D2L Brightspace to create short recordings. Students can access the 'record audio' and ‘record video’ feature when:

• Adding an attachment to a discussion thread or reply,
• Submitting to an assignment folder that requires a file submission, and
• Responding to a written response question in a quiz (in which your instructor allows attachments as a response).

Attach recording to discussion thread or reply

In the Discussions tool, access Record Audio or Record Video when starting a new thread or replying to a post. Expand the Add Attachments link (in the Reading View), or scroll down to the Attachments section (in the Grid View).  

To save the audio or video recording to the item, remember to click Post for the discussion thread or reply.  (Learn more about posting to a discussion).

Submit a recording to an assignment folder

In the Assignments tool, access Record Audio or Record Video when uploading and submitting a file to an assignment folder. To submit the audio or video recording for your instructor to review, remember to click Submit for the assignment folder. (Learn more about submitting to an assignment).

Attach recording as a response to question when taking quiz

In the Quizzes tool, access the Record Audio or Record Video when responding to a written response question when taking a quiz. With this option, the audio or video recording is attached underneath the response field. To submit the audio or video recording for your instructor to review, remember to click Submit Quiz for the quiz attempt. (Learn more about the taking a quiz).

Record Media File using ‘Record Audio' or 'Record Video’

Record using ‘record audio' or 'record video’

1. Navigate to one of the following areas in your course:
   • Start a new thread (or reply to one) a discussion topic,
   • Navigate to an assignment folder to submit to it, or
   • Start a quiz attempt and respond to the question that allows attachments.
2. On the page, click Record Audio or Record Video.
3. In the web browser, prompt may display asking to allow sharing your microphone and/or camera.  Select the camera and/or microphone you’d like to use and click Allow.
4. When ready to record, click the New Recording button in the Media Capture window.
5. A timer will count up the minutes and seconds for the length of the video recording.
   Note: There is no pause or editing functions with this feature. A recording can only be started and stopped.
6. When finished with the recording, click Stop Recording.
7. Upon stopping the recording, you can preview it by hovering over the player and pressing play.
   Note: To restart the recording, use the New Recording button (repeat steps 4-7).
    
8. When ready to add the recording to the page, click Add.
9. Enter a title, description, and request captions for the audio or video file. 
   • The title field is valuable to provide a short description of the file for accessibility.  By adding a short description, it will make it for others to understand what the audio or video recording contains. Otherwise, a randomly generated title with alphanumeric characters is provided for the file – which is not helpful to you or to others!
   • Note that the description field is not accessible/visible after the recording has been added (saved) to the item.
   • Machine-generated captions can be ordered for audio from the audio or video file.  Select the spoken language from the audio language field and select the “automatically generate captions from audio” checkbox.
   • When ready, click Add.
10. The recording is added to the page as a clickable link.
11. To submit the audio or video recording for your instructor to review, do one of the following:
    • Click Post for the discussion thread or reply,
    • Click Submit for the assignment folder, or
    • Click Submit Quiz for the quiz attempt.