When a student is asked to contribute to a discussion by submitting a video, there is no way to default that submission to Media Upload like you can in normal assignments. I try to force all video submissions to Media Upload so that the videos that are submitted are automatically converted and will play in browser. This speeds up the grading process tremendously and makes it so that I don't have a boatload of student video files on my hard drive. It also solves the problem of a student submitting a video file format that I can't play.
When on a normal web browser, a student can choose a media upload option however that's not always intuitive. I also just discovered that the Canvas mobile app (which a lot of students use to submit video) does not even give the option of media submission. No wonder I keep getting files I have to download instead of being able to play in browser. Anyway, I would like to see this changed.
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