Upload via iPhone

As a student, you can download the Canvas application on your phone via the App Store. Once you have received a Media Submission and are about to upload a video to Canvas, you can do so directly via your phone. You do this by:

Go into the task.
Click on 'Submit Assignment'.

Follow the steps

Select file type:

If you press 'Audio', you can only upload audio and not video.
If you press 'Camera', Canvas will request access to the microphone and camera. Then you can record a video directly on Canvas and submit.
If you press 'Library', you can upload a video via the library (which is most common as students often record a video in advance).
If you press 'Files', you can upload videos that you have saved as files (not as images).

NB!
Note! If you selected 'Camera', you can record the video as many times as you like and cut the video. If you then click 'Use video', the film will be uploaded automatically and the information will be submitted. If you have pressed 'Files', you will not be able to cut or preview the video. Canvas will instead upload the video immediately after you print the file.

Step 3 in the order.

If you are uploading a video from your image library, select the video you want to upload and click 'Select'.
If the file is large, Canvas will automatically compress the video before uploading it.

Step 4 and 5.

NOTE!
NOTE! Movies and audio are often large files, especially if they are recorded in high quality (for example 4k) or are long (for example over five minutes). There are mainly two settings that affect how large the file becomes: resolution (ie the size of the film surface) and compression (ie image quality). In most places on Canvas, your media file must be less than 500 MB in order to be uploaded. If it is larger than that, an error message will appear in Canvas. See further down in this guide how to reduce the file size.

When the video is compressed in Canvas, it will be uploaded automatically. To cancel, press 'Cancel'.

Step 6, please wait while uploading the file.

NB!
Note! The information is submitted automatically when you upload the video, which means that you can not delete or edit the video afterwards. Charging is very fast and therefore it can be difficult to press 'Cancel'. Therefore, think carefully before pressing 'Use video' or 'Select'.

The video has been uploaded and submitted!

Step 7: Completed!

Reduce file size on iPhone or iPad

On newer iPhone / iPad, the iMovie app is included for free. In iMovie, you can reduce the file size, without shortening or cropping the video.

Go to the app and click on the plus sign to download your movie from the camera roll. You can select one or more clips from the camera roll. You may also be able to edit the video in the app.
When the video is complete, you can save it to your phone by clicking on the icon at the bottom center.

Please click at the uploading symbol.

Then press 'Alternative'.

Click at options in step 3.

To reduce the file size, press 360p under 'Resolution'.

Select the 360p at the resolution-settings.

Then click on 'Save Video'.

Click save video at step 5.

The video has been exported to download the video to your image library.

Click ok on step 6.

If you do not have access to iMovie, you can try the Video Compressor app (Links to an external site). With the app you can choose medium or low quality and then convert any movie in your "Camera roll". You will then receive a copy that will be much smaller. The app costs SEK 20 (price information July 2019).

If you are filming with your mobile phone

Modern mobile phones can often film with very high quality and then there will be very large files. To reduce the file size of the movies you record:

Go to Settings and press 'Camera'.

Step one is the camera-option.

Click 'Record Video'.

Please check the record video options

Select 720p with 30 frames/s.

NB!
NOTE! Here you can see the number of MB per minute during the different selections.

Mark option one.

Questions?
QUESTIONS? Contact Umeå University support. We need to know your name, what web address the canvas site has and where in the course you have problems.