This document provides information about sharing courses and videos from the Collaborative Learning Annotation System (CLAS) publicly outside of an institution. It describes how instructors can choose to share a whole course or single video publicly, with options to allow or restrict commenting/annotating. The document also outlines how to generate share links for whole courses or individual videos and how public users can view but not download or edit comments. It notes that public access can be revoked or limited to read-only. Contact information is provided for CLAS administrators or IT support.

1. Project Owner
fred.cutler@ubc.ca
Lead Developer
thomas .dang@ubc.ca
Art s I n s t ructional
Suppor t and
Information
Technology
Univer s i ty of Br i t i s h
Columbia
Collaborative Learning Annotation System
SHARE CLAS VIDEOS
AND ANNOTATIONS
OUTSIDE OF YOUR
INSTITUTION

2. INTRODUCTION
Introduction: A course can accessed “with authentication” by
default or “publicly (anonymously)”, or via both methods at the
same time.
Once a course has been shared to the public, an instructor can
choose to let anonymous users view and comment / annotate on
the whole course, or just one video within a course
There are a number of possible options in the public share mode
that can be turned on and off to accommodate different course
design needs, please contact arts.helpdesk@ubc.ca

3. HOW CAN YOU USE THIS FEATURE?
SHARE A COURSE TO THE PUBLIC
CLAS administrators please see share / unshare instructions in the
“enroll/drop” tab in the admin tool.
After that, please email the instructors with the appropriate share
link, depending on the setting that they specified.
§ Share the whole course: applications.arts.ubc.ca/clas_ext/index.php?
anon=true&cid=3 (replace with other course numbers)
§ Share one video within a course: applications.arts.ubc.ca/clas_ext/
index.php?anon=true&vid=0_bvw3z180 (do not include the course id)

4. HOW CAN YOU USE THIS FEATURE?
SHARE ONLY A VIDEO TO THE PUBLIC
If public access is revoked from a course, then all the videos in that
course will not be viewable by the public anymore even through
previously-working video share links.
Anonymous users can also comment and annotate on the timeline, but
they cannot edit posts once it had been submitted. After all, multiple
anonymous users are indistinguishable from each other, and can all
be posting at the same time
Anonymous users can put in a name tag in a “Post as:” box, which will
be shown on their posts, but the post is still identified as an
anonymous post.

5. HOW CAN YOU USE THIS FEATURE?
TURN OFF TIMELINE ANNOTATION, USE ONLY COMMENT
Add “&co=true” (“co” stands for “comment only”) to the end of the
share link to hide the annotation panel and disable annotation.
§ E.g. applications.arts.ubc.ca/clas_ext/index.php?
anon=true&vid=0_bvw3z180&co=true
Sharing this way (to the public and without access control to a course,
group, or department) is equivalent to a basic video sharing app like
Youtube or Kaltura Mediaspace.

6. HOW CAN YOU USE THIS FEATURE?
RESHARE COURSE OR VIDEO
Look for the “share course / video” link where the download video link
should be in normal (none public) mode
Video downloading is disabled for anonymous users
The reshare section of the page will adjust depending on whether the
whole course or just a video was shared.
§ If a whole course was shared, than viewers can either reshare the course or
just that video they were on
§ If only the video was shared, then that viewer can only reshare the video

7. HOW CAN YOU USE THIS FEATURE?
LIMIT PUBLIC SHARING TO “READ ONLY”
Instructors can choose to limit public sharing of a course (and all the
videos within that course) to read only. This means that the public will
not be able to add any comment or annotation
⇒ Contact your department’s CLAS administrator or
arts.helpdesk@ubc.ca