Description
Authors can embed videos hosted on the Internet or upload videos from a computer. Video clips can be uploaded in MP4 (H.264/MPEG-4) and must be less than 100MB in size.
|
Video Type |
Description |
Upload Video |
|
Youtube |
embedded Youtube video | Paste the link in the Source URL textbox |
| Vimeo | embedded Vimeo video | |
| Hosted Video | default video type, which will automatically detect if the provided Source URL is Youtube, Vimeo, or a normal video link. |
Underneath Source URL, click on +Add, and a modal will appear to either upload or embed a video. There are three methods to upload a video:
|
- Title - Heading of the video player.
- Summary - Description of the video being played.
More Options
Here you will find additional settings to help you configure the video player:
- Poster Image (only allowed for Hosted Video) - You can add an image to be displayed before the video starts.
- Width - Specify the video width. Default is set to 480px. Note: Responsive design with percentage height and width is not supported with Vimeo videos.
- Height - Specify the video height. Default is set to 270px. Note: Responsive design with percentage height and width is not supported with Vimeo videos.
- Hide Controls (only allowed for Hosted Video) - Allows students to have Play/Pause controls. The default setting is off.
- Caption URL (only allowed for Hosted Video) - Can upload a VTT file to use for captioning the video.
- Transcript - A transcript for the video, you can input text directly into this field, or include a URL or filename to be used instead. This will be configured on the assessment page by your development team and therefore it's not possible to preview this in the Question Editor or Item Edit/Preview pages.
Figure 1: Example of an Item containing a video feature on the left and a question on the right.