If you are having trouble recording in Canvas or receive the error message:
Flash required to record video, these steps will help you troubleshoot the problem:
First, you can check here to verify that you are following the appropriate steps to record video in Canvas:
https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-13057
GOOGLE CHROME WEB BROWSER
By default, your Camera, Microphone and Adobe Flash is disabled.
To enable your Camera, Microphone and Adobe Flash, follow these steps:
- Go to your Canvas course
- Click on the Padlock icon n the URL address bar of Chrome
- Click on Site Settings
- Change Camera setting to Allow
- Change Microphone setting to Allow
- Change Flash setting to Allow
- Refresh (reload) the web page in Google Chrome
- Try starting the recording again
Here are additional information for fixing Flash issues in the Google Chrome web browser:
MOZILLA FIREFOX WEB BROWSER
Make sure you have Adobe Flash installed by going here to test your installation: