Are you looking to give more targeted feedback to your students’ work? Struggling to get students to hone in on specific areas of their work or find the Comments feature in Canvas to be limiting?
[A special thanks to Alex Pratt for this idea!]
Today’s Tip
You may want to consider reviewing your students’ work in a screen recording and sending that file to them. By providing learners with feedback via screen recording, you personalize your feedback. Learners are able to hear your voice and understand the tone of your feedback. Learners are also more likely to comprehend recommendations when provided in multiple formats.
How to Provide Feedback with Screen Recording
Before you begin, review the general steps for Screen Recording on your iPad from yesterday’s tip. Those steps will be exactly the same when starting your recording. A general process that you might consider for providing feedback with screen recording could be:
- Pull up the student work you would like to review on your iPad.
- Pull down your Control Center from the top right corner and select the Screen Recorder option.
- Return to the student work and begin giving feedback at specific places in the work.
- For video content, you may want to consider playing the video for a while, pausing and making comments, and then resuming the video until you get to the end.
- For written content, talking as you go through the work would probably make the most sense.
- When you are finished, pull down the Control Center again and stop and save the recording.
- Find your recordings in your preferred Storage Location and share them with students.
Depending on your workflow with students, you may want to email students their corresponding file individually or share it in the Comments section of the Canvas Teacher app.
Note: It is recommended that video files are ultimately uploaded to a cloud-based service like OneDrive and shared using that platform in order to save local storage space on your device.
Possible Use Cases
While not an all-inclusive list, some instances that screen recorded feedback might be valuable for student learning include:
- Reviewing video content produced by students such as speeches, presentations, or recorded class assignments
- Walking through improvements to written work, especially for the draft stage of a longer writing assignment or course-long project
- Providing targeted feedback on procedural work, indicating where students may have made a wrong turn or diverged from common practice
- Giving specific critique or suggestions for enhancement on more subjective elements of assignments like projects or performances
- Supplying remediation material in response to students who seem to be struggling with course concepts or connections to prior knowledge
Additional Support
Check out some of the resources we’ve curated on this topic for more support:
