CLAS
Collaborative Learning Annotation System (CLAS) is a web-based application that allows students to add time-based annotations and comments on videos, images, and documents. It also integrates video playback, recording, and media management. This creates opportunities for peer review, self-reflection, and collaborative learning with students.
Key Features
- Upload and share media: upload media from a device or import media from the web (e.g., YouTube). Option to keep it private, share with individuals, groups, or everyone in the course
- Annotations: students can collaboratively add text annotations to images, PDFs, and time-based annotations to audio and videos
- Playlists: create playlists to organize media for simple navigation
- Assignments: students can submit assignments on CLAS through a private hand-in-box
- Groups: facilitate discussions, activities, collaboration, and control visibility by making groups
- Easy access: integrate CLAS in Canvas or UBC Blogs for easy access
Getting Started
To request for a CLAS site to be set up, please email Science LT at LT.support@science.ubc.ca with the following information:
- Course number and section
- Instructor CWL username (no passwords)
- TA CWL username (no passwords)
You can also request a sandbox site to explore the features in CLAS before deciding whether to use it for your course.
After the course is set up, you can log in at https://clas.ubc.ca/science to create and share videos and allow your students to do the same.
Instructions
- Upload media from your computer or import media from the web (e.g. YouTube)
- Share media with individuals, groups, or the whole class or keep it private
- Add text annotations collaboratively to images, PDFs, and time-based annotations to audio and videos
- Add general comments to text, video, or audio
- General comments are comments to media or video in general (unlike time-specific annotations).
- Create playlists to organize media for easy access and navigation
- Create assignments to allow students submissions on CLAS through a private hand-in-box
- Media assigned to assignment hand-in-boxes can only be accessed by the student who submitted the assignment, the instructor, and the TAs.
- Create groups to facilitate discussions, activities, and collaboration
- Media assigned to a group are only visible to the group members, instructors and TAs.
Additional Resources
Last updated on: July 15, 2024