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How Do I Create A Canvas ePortfolio 

You can create a new ePortfolio in your user settings. You must be enrolled in a course to create an ePortfolio. 

  1. Open Microsoft Edge and click on the Copilot button in the top right of your screen. 
  1. The Copilot chat panel will open on your web browser. You may need to sign in using your MIT login information. 
  1. Open YouTube (or any other video site) and search for the video you want to summarise. 
  1. Click on the box labelled Generate Video Highlights. 

Copilot will generate a summary of the video content – you can use this in your canvas content to introduce the video OR to summarise the video. 
You can also click the box labelled suggest questions about this video. 
This will give you questions to stimulate thinking in you classroom and learners.