Active Learning in Canvas

Student creation, interactive lessons, and assessment belong in the same teaching workflow. Institutions can bring WeVideo into Canvas so educators create, assign, assess, and review work in one place, without sending students into a disconnected stack of tools.

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The problem

Student work needs better evidence than text alone

Somewhere in your institution, an educator wants students to make something instead of writing about it. Once a language model can produce a polished response on demand, written work stops being reliable evidence of learning by itself. Many institutions are also carrying overlapping subscriptions for recording, editing, interactive lessons, and stock content, while grading still happens outside Canvas.

How it works

One workflow, start to finish

Step 1

Educator

Adds a WeVideo assignment or interactive video lesson inside Canvas.

Step 2

Student

Launches from the course, with no extra login and no separate destination to manage.

Step 3

Assessment

Interactive questions, branching paths, and structured responses support graded work.

Step 4

Outcomes

Scores and learning evidence stay connected to the course workflow.

No new login. No new procurement request.

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Better together

What each piece does

Canvas on its own

Manages the course, while Canvas Studio provides a native video library, automatic captions, and view-completion insights.

WeVideo on its own

Adds creation and assessable video, with multiple question types, branching scenarios, real-time collaboration, and interactive lesson design.

Together

Educators can add assessment to the videos and recordings they already manage in Canvas, while keeping learning activity connected to the course experience.

Canvas Studio remains the native video library. WeVideo adds creation, interactivity, and assessment without replacing the surrounding course environment.

What’s included

Three things you get inside Canvas

Creation suite in the browser

Multi-track editing, screen and webcam recording, green screen, podcasting, captions, and AI Assist tools in a Cloud-Based workflow that works across devices.

Interactive video with grading options

Add questions, annotations, web content, or supporting resources to existing recordings, then review learner responses and participation in one teaching flow.

Build once, deploy everywhere

Create a master experience once, then reuse consistent interactive video across schools, campuses, sections, or programs with less manual rebuilding.

What institutions use it for

Consolidate the video stack

Add creation and interactive assessment to the video environment the institution already manages, instead of splitting work across separate recording, editing, and lesson tools.

Capture learning evidence a worksheet misses

Use speaking practice, performance-based tasks, student explanations, and presentation work to see what learners can actually do, not only what they can type.

Assess work AI cannot complete for students

Ask students to explain reasoning on camera, annotate their process, or respond inside an interactive sequence that calls for original performance and reflection.

Keep experiences consistent across sections

Standardize interactive video for district, campus, department, or adjunct use so updates can be managed with less variation from one section to the next.

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Questions we get most

No. Educators and students access WeVideo directly through Canvas. Your account team can walk through how it launches and how access is managed for your institution.

Canvas Studio remains the native video library, while WeVideo adds creation, interactive video, and assessment workflows around the content your institution already uses.

Interactive lessons, where educators add questions, polls, and discussions to video, and creation projects, where students build videos, podcasts, and other multimedia. Both are assigned and completed in Canvas.

Every question type can be auto-graded, so scoring happens as students complete a lesson. For free-response answers and discussions, educators can also grade manually when a response calls for a closer look.

When educators grade a WeVideo assignment, the score passes back to the Canvas gradebook automatically, so there's no manual entry or export.

See it in your own Canvas instance

Bring one course. We’ll map the workflow with you.

Thirty minutes with your Instructure account team and WeVideo is enough to pressure-test a real use case. Bring one course where the current assignment flow is falling short, or bring the video tools your institution pays for today, and we’ll map what one platform inside Canvas could replace, simplify, or connect more cleanly.

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