Videos in activities

Videos can be used within activities both as content and as a student response for some types of activities. This page details how to add videos as content. For information on using videos for student response, visit the Activities section.

The method for placing video in activities differs from units and there are less options. Only embedded videos from YouTube or Vimeo can be used in activity content.

Inserting YouTube video into an activity

Videos can be inserted into the Question, Automatic feedback, or Hint sections of an activity using the Video menu option.

Tip: Add some lines below where you want to insert the video if you want to add text after the video.

This will bring up this simple dialog box where a YouTube can be entered. Select Insert to finish.

Activity videos can’t be uploaded or recorded, and there are no transcript, poster image, or attribution options.

But it's tiny!

Activity videos initially appear quite small, as shown below.

Make it bigger please

Note that there is a huge gap between the bottom of the video and the cursor (highlighted above).

To get the video to pop out to full size, place your cursor at the first available position under the video as shown and click the backspace key once only.

The video should now fill the full width and if you have added extra lines you can continue to add text.

Inserting Vimeo video into an activity

Inserting a Vimeo video into an activity requires the use of the full embed code. e.g.

<iframe data-number="iQual00001" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/113059191" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

Where do I get the embed code?

For in-house videos The full embed code can be sourced from the Vimeo Embed Codes spreadsheet.

For public Vimeo videos find the 'share' button and use the 'Embed code' provided.

But it's Tiny #2

The default embed codes unfortunately result in a very small video.

Make in bigger please #2

Making the video bigger requires some small changes to width and height of embed code, a width of 100% and a height of 500 seem to work well. Simply change these bits of the embed code to that highlighted below.

<iframe data-number="iQual00001" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/306923277?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="100%" height="500" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

Using this altered embed code will result in a larger video within the activity.

How do I edit or remove the video?

Another difference between unit videos and activity videos is that there is no Edit option at the top left of the video element. Activity videos can’t be edited – they can only be deleted and recreated. To delete an activity video, place the cursor directly under the video and use backspace to delete it. You may be left with a large gap, as shown below.

To fix this, simply backspace again.