Recording and Posting a Welcome Video

Allison McComb Updated by Allison McComb

You are required to post a Facilitator introduction as a ‘Welcome Video’ to the Student Lounge of each course you facilitate. This message should include a brief introduction of yourself and the course.

This article includes instructions for recording your welcome post in Zoom and then embedding it as a thumbnail within your discussion comment from the Cornell Video-on-Demand (VoD) site.

This method will allow for the video to carry over section-to-section (of the same course) automatically.

If you are looking for instructions on how to share a Zoom recording link only, please visit this article.

Recording and Posting a Welcome Video

Recording a video in Zoom:

First, open a new meeting in the Zoom app (instructions on downloading this here) and click "Record":

You'll want to be sure to be "saving to the cloud":

Once you're all done recording, end the meeting as you normally would. You will receive an email to your Outlook (cornell.edu) account within a few moments (up to an hour or so if it's a longer recording), letting you know your meeting is available for view.

After the cloud recording is uploaded, it may take a few moments for the video to appear on the VoD site- so don't worry if you don't see it right away.

PLEASE NOTE: By default, our Zoom recordings are set up to only be visible to those with a Net ID. Therefore, if you'd like to share recordings with students, you will need to follow the below students to create a public link on the Video-on-Demand site.

To access the video in VoD format, please follow these steps:

You will be able to access that recording here:

https://vod.video.cornell.edu/my-media

It should look something like the below image.

Before we embed your video, we want to make sure your video is set to public.

  1. Click the title of the video you want to edit:
  1. Underneath the Share menu below your video, to the right, click the Actions drop down menu, and select Publish.
  2. Select Unlisted and click Save. *Please note this step is imperative, if you do not "Unlist" the recordings, they will display as "Access Denied" for anyone attempting to view them outside of Cornell University.
  1. After you have marked your video as Unlisted, go to the Share menu again, and click "Embed"

Copy the code highlighted in the box.

Embedding the Video in Canvas

Now, with your code copied, go to your "Student Lounge" Discussion within your course.

Once there, click the three dots in the upper right hand area of any comment you want to place your video in, and click "Edit":

Once the announcement is open, make sure your cursor is in the text box where you will want your video to end up, for example:

Next, we'll want to find the embed feature, which looks like a cloud icon. If you do not see this, click the the three dots in the upper right hand corner of the formatting tool bar:

Then, click the "Embed" icon:

Finally, paste your code:

You can now save your Student Lounge comment and the video should remain embedded.

Once you have posted your video, it should be copied forward to you future sections of that same course.  *Please note that if it is your first time facilitating a course, you will need to post your Welcome Video manually for the first time.

How did we do?

​Course Set Up: Getting Ready for Live Sessions

Course Set Up: When can I begin to edit my course?

Contact