Making Recordings In Canvas

Creation date: 2/12/2018 8:36 AM    Updated: 6/4/2020 2:41 PM    canvas flash video
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:
  1. Go to your Canvas course
  2. Click on the Padlock icon n the URL address bar of Chrome
  3. Click on Site Settings
  4. Change Camera setting to Allow
  5. Change Microphone setting to Allow
  6. Change Flash setting to Allow
  7. Refresh (reload) the web page in Google Chrome
  8. 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:

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