Creating a Presentation and Uploading it to Canvas

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Overview
  • Creating A Presentation:
  • Uploading your Presentation to Canvas:
  • Additional Support & Guidance

Overview

Below we provide suggestions (as well as some links to direct step-by-step instructions) on how to create a basic presentation in whichever software you like to use and then offer further suggestions on how to upload it to Canvas to share with your class.

Some tools (in bold) are centrally supported by Penn and we can assist with some additional guidance on their use. Others are commonly used/freeware, these are not centrally supported.

Important: Please note if you are using a mobile device to record yourself these default to very high-resolution videos which can take a long time to upload. We recommend lowering your video recording resolution BEFORE filming to aid in an easy upload to Canvas. Please see our article on lowering resolution for videos for general information.

Creating A Presentation:

• Google Slides, 
• Canva,
• Microsoft Powerpoint (Available to full-time students)
• Recording yourself in Zoom, 
• Screensharing a Presentation in Zoom,
• Recording yourself in Zoom with your Presentation as the Background, 
• Recording Directly in Canvas Rich Content Editor, (Supported in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox Browsers Only)
• Recording Directly in Canvas Rich Content Editor using the Panopto Button, ( ^ yes there are two different ways!) 
• Record in Panopto and supply a link*

Uploading your Presentation to Canvas:

• Attach to Discussion (sometimes works, sometimes fails to attach if the file is too large)
• Upload to Canvas Files area  (always works - see video below for step-by-step)
• Upload to Panopto and then supply a link to your presentation* (see video below for step-by-step)
• Saved to Zoom Cloud and can supply a link to your presentation
• Recorded with Zoom, saved to the computer, Upload to Canvas

*Before attempting to access the University's media creation, editing, and storage platform, Panopto, please do the following:

1. Check to make sure you have set up your PennEmail and that it is set as your default email in Canvas and in the Penn directory. Your default email in Canvas will have a star next to it. You can have more than one email listed in Canvas.
2. When you navigate to upenn.hosted.panopto.com/ you may need to select "Panopto Canvas Integration" if a dropdown option appears after entering your default contact email (which should be your Pennemail "pennkey@sas.upenn.edu" per the first step)
3. Panopto is a very robust tool, we recommend following along with this How to Record a Video in Panopto (Panopto Capture) first.