How to Embed Media in Moodle Moodle 2.2
Useful Tips from NWC Academic Technologies
Moodle gives the ability to embed fully functioning videos and other media content that is stored elsewhere on the internet, but plays through a Moodle web page. The advantage of embedding over linking is that students stay within Moodle and interact with the media right on the course page. Moodle uses “object/embed” and “iframe” codes to embed media from sources such as YouTube, VoiceThread, Vimeo, TED, blogs, or anywhere “sharing” is allowed.
Embedding a YouTube Video 1.
First, go to the video you want to copy. you need to copy the embed code from the YouTube video. Click on Share from the video you want to copy. Click Embed. Next, make the choices you want for suggested videos and privacy. Choose the size of the playback window. Make these choices first to allow the code to change before copying it. The embed code will be displayed with <iframe tags>. Highlight the code and click Edit, Copy (Ctrl+C).
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Back on your Moodle course page, turn editing on and click Add a resource > Page to begin a page for new content.
3. Copy the embed code (Ctrl+C)
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In the Text Editor, click on the HTML tool. This brings up the HTML Source Editor.
Paste (Ctrl+V) the text into the secondary textbox. Click Update. The video may or may not be viewable in the Text Editor until you Save changes.
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Add other text as needed and then save changes at the bottom of the page.
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The video now plays through an embedded video player directly within Moodle.
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