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Adding AER to Canvas

Markette Pierce Updated by Markette Pierce

Familiarize Yourself With AER

Before you begin, read over the Pedagogical Guidelines for Implementing AI-Based Interactives: AER.

Identify Video Content for AER

Use the course transcript to identify Watch pages with a pedagogical need for deploying AER. If the course transcript is not yet available, you can use the Video Transcripts Utility (Via Kaltura) to create a video transcript. (For the video transcript maker to run successfully, all pages that contain videos must have Kaltura IDs.)

As of January 2025, AER is now a required course element. IDs should add an AER to all spots where it can be reasonably applied to enhance learning. If you’re unsure in a particular instance whether to include it or not, err on the side of including it.

Adding AER

There are two flavors of AER:

  • Type 1: Default question for key concepts (“Please share one takeaway from the video.”) You cannot customize the question in Type 1 AERs.
  • Type 2: The AER can be customized to obtain more nuanced answers, which is useful for deeper engagement with the concepts, applied learning, etc.
Note: AER is added to Canvas pages, in the Kaltura player code, not the videos themselves. If the video exists in multiple places, like -M or OD, the AER code will need to be added to each page.
Adding Type 1 AER to Single-Video Watch Pages
  1. Open the Watch page for the video in which you want to add AER and go into HTML view.
  2. Add ec-aer after kaltura_video to the existing Kaltura player code (see highlighted text below for placement
    1. Note: Not all videos contain resp2 in the div class. If the Kaltura player code does not contain resp2, do not add it; doing so will cause a mismatch in how the videos are presented to learners across the course.

<div id="kaltura1" class="kaltura_video resp2 ec-aer" style="margin: auto; width: 640px; height: 390px; margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ccc;"><span class="entryId" style="display: none;">KALTURA_ID</span></div>

  1. Test the AER. Note that only one attempt is allowed per person on a page. To test multiple times, you must create new pages by copying and pasting your code into a new page. A sandbox environment is recommended for testing.
Adding Type 2 AER to Single-Video Watch Pages
  1. Open the Watch page for the video to which you want to add AER and go into HTML view.
  2. Add ec-aer after kaltura_video to the existing Kaltura player code. Then, add data-question=“YOUR QUESTION HERE” right before style (see highlighted text below for placement)
    1. Note: Not all videos contain resp2 in the div class. If the Kaltura player code does not contain resp2, do not add it; doing so will cause a mismatch in how the videos are presented to learners across the course.

<div id="kaltura1" class="kaltura_video resp2 ec-aer" data-question="CUSTOM AER QUESTION HERE" style="margin: auto; width: 640px; height: 390px; margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ccc;"><span class="entryId" style="display: none;">KALTURA_ID</span></div>

  1. Test the AER. Note that only one attempt is allowed per person on a page. To test multiple times, you must create new pages by copying and pasting your code into a new page. A sandbox environment is recommended for testing.
Adding Type 1 or 2 AER to Multi-Video Watch Pages

To place AER into a multi-vid page, you will be working in WYSIWYG mode (a.k.a., the RCE editor) in Canvas. You will need to click on an icon in the menu. Use the kabob menu (a.k.a., the three dots) to expand the menu fully.

  1. Set your cursor to be after the video introduction and before the existing three-column mutli-video table.
  2. From the menu, select the “Playlist Configuration” icon and use the dropdown menu menu to select “General Playlist.” The icon is a black “play” triangle with a white plus sign. (Make sure you have set your cursor to where you want the video content to be inserted (e.g., after the video intro).)
  3. Select the number of videos you want to add. The default is 4.
  4. Copy and paste the contents of the existing three-column mutli-vid table into the new multi-vid table with four columns (if needed).
  5. In the rightmost column, you can choose which type of AER you would like to use. Click on the TOOL icon to select the different options. They are:
    1. [TOOL icon] No AER (this is the default)
    2. [DIAL icon] AER with default question (e.g., Type 1)
    3. [READ icon] AER with custom question (e.g., Type 2)
  6. If you chose “AER with custom question,” replace “AER with custom question” with the question you want to ask in the AER.
  7. Delete the duplicate three-column multi-vid table (if needed).

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