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Embedding Videos on Moodle

If you want to include (embed) a video in your Moodle activities, for example a page, book or quiz question, we recommend you embed it.

This guidance refers to embedding video learning resources. For information on adding lecture recordings to Moodle, please see https://lse.atlassian.net/wiki/x/egC-Ag.

Before embedding media onto your course, please visit LSE’s copyright guidance to ensure you can proceed. If you do not own the video you wish to embed or you did not make the video yourself, you will need written permission before embedding it.

If you want to embed videos that you have made or own, do so through Echo360.

You will need to:

Captions are not auto-generated. You can add your own captions or contact eden.lecturerecording@lse.ac.uk for help getting automated captions that you can edit.

Getting started

There are two ways to embed a video on Moodle activities with Echo360:

  • Using the Echo360 plugin

  • Using Echo360’s embedding code

To start, please make sure you have uploaded your video unto your Echo360 library.

Next, add your Moodle activity by clicking Add an activity or resource. In the “Activity chooser”, select Text and media area.

Under Resources, select the Text and media area activity.

Option 1: Moodle editor and Echo360 plugin

Adding the video

  1. On the text editor’s navigation bar, click on the Echo360 plugin button.

This will give you three options:

  • Choose existing content: select a video from your Echo360 library.

  • Create content: record a video.

  • Upload content: upload a video from your device.

Creating content and Uploading content will allow you to add new videos to your Echo360 library. Once you have added them, you will be brought back to the Embed Media screen and you can find your video in the Choose existing content box.

  1. In the Choose existing content box, click on Launch Media Picker.

  1. Search and click on the relevant video and click Next at the bottom right of the pop-up window.

Here you can select:

Size: the size of the video,

Start at: at what point it starts playing,

Autoplay: if you want it to start playing automatically. For accessibility best practice, don’t enable autoplay.

Important: for accessibility best practice, don’t enable autoplay.

Automute: if you want the video to be muted by default.

Discussions: if you want to allow students to comment on the video and engage in a discussion.

Link: if you want to include a link to the video instead of displaying the video itself on Moodle.

  1. Once you are happy with the settings, click Embed at the bottom-right corner of the pop-up window.

  1. You will be taken back to the Insert Media pop-up window. Click on Insert media. A link will appear on your text editor.

Adding a link to the transcript

Transcripts are not auto-generated. You can add your own transcript or contact eden.lecturerecording@lse.ac.uk for help getting automated transcripts that you can edit.

If you don’t have a transcript and can’t create one, consider summarising the main ideas for students who cannot access the video.

  1. Press Enter to create a new line of text.

  2. Write your link text.

    1. For example: “View the Week 3 Lecture Recordings transcript.”

  3. Select the words you want to link and click on the Link button.

  1. Paste the link to the transcript in the Enter a URL box and click on Create link.

  1. When done, scroll down and click Save and return to course as normal. Your video will display along with any written text.

Option 2: Echo360’s embedding code

Alternatively, you can get an iframe code from your Echo360 library to embed your video on Moodle.

Please make sure you have uploaded your video into your Echo360 library.

Getting the embed code

  1. When you are ready to embed the video in your Moodle activity, open a new tab and log into Echo360.

  2. Go to your Library using the navigation bar at the top-left of your screen.

  1. Select the relevant video and scroll down to the settings area and select Publishing.

  1. Once there, scroll down until you reach the Embeds area. Click on Create embed code.

  1. You will now have a link you can set up for embedding. Click on the Copy icon to copy the embed code as-is, or click the More icon > Edit to update the settings.

In the settings pop up window you can add the following:

Description: you can add a short description if you wish,

Start at: at what point it starts playing,

Public access: this will allow anyone with the link to view the video. Please leave it on so anyone accessing your course can view the video.

Size: the size of the video.

Auto play: if you want it to start playing automatically. For accessibility best practice, don’t enable auto play.

Important: for accessibility best practice, don’t enable autoplay.

Auto mute: if you want the video to be muted by default.

  1. Once you are happy with the settings, click on Copy and Done.

Adding the embed code to Moodle

  1. Go back to Moodle and the activity you were preparing. On the text editor’s navigation bar, click on Tools and select Source code. This will display the HTML code of your text.

  1. If you have any text going before the video, locate the paragraph that will precede the video and press Enter to start a new line. You will recognise the end of the paragraph by the closing tag </p>.

  2. In this new line (or the first line, if there’s no text preceding the video), paste the copied embedded code.

  1. Click Save at the bottom of the Source code box to return to the editing box.

Adding a link to the transcript

Transcripts are not auto-generated. You can add your own transcript or contact eden.lecturerecording@lse.ac.uk for help getting automated transcripts that you can edit.

If you don’t have a transcript and can’t create one, consider summarising the main ideas for students who cannot access the video.

  1. Press Enter to create a new line of text.

  2. Write your text.

    1. For example: “View the Week 3 Lecture Recordings transcript.”

  3. Select the words you want to link and click on the Link button.

  1. Paste the link to the transcript in the Enter a URL box and click on Create link.

  1. When done, scroll down and click Save and return to course as normal. Your video will display within your written text.