Add Video to Course (Graded)

How-to Use a Video as an Assignment

No quiz? No problem! You can assign a video as an assignment and students will be graded based off the percentage of the video they watch.

Click Assignments and +Assignment Button

Screenshot of a webpage showing an "Assignments" section. A red "+ Assignment" button is highlighted on the right. The sidebar includes options like Announcements, Discussions, and Grades.

Type Assignment Name, Points, and Choose Assignment Group

Screenshot of an online course platform showing an assignment titled "Watch This Video." It includes sections for content, points set to 10, and assignment group selected as "Video Assignments.

For Submission Type: Select External Tool and click Find

External Tool and Find selected

Find & Click Panopto Videos

Panopto Videos under Configure External Tool selected

Select Grade on % viewed and click Continue

Note: Grades can take up to 3 hours to sync with Canvas once a student begins watching.

Grade on % viewed option selected and then you click Continue button

Select a video without a quiz and click insert

⚠️ Video must NOT have a quiz as this will cause erroneous grades issues.

Video selected from library and Insert button highlighted

Click Select

Select button under Configure External Tool selected

Click Save & Publish when finished

Save & Publish button selected

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