Embedding your own videos into Myplace from the Learning and Teaching Video Repository (using Microsoft Stream On Sharepoint)

Embedding your own videos into Myplace from the Learning and Teaching Video Repository (using Microsoft Stream On Sharepoint)

You can only use these steps to embed videos that you have uploaded to the LTVR.

Navigate to the Learning & Teaching Video Repository on SharePoint (https://strath.sharepoint.com/sites/ltvideo ) and select “My Videos”.

From the homepage, select the My Videos section

 

From there select the open the relevant video in Microsoft Stream by clicking on the hyperlink. The video will automatically open in Stream.

 

 

Once the video is open drop down the menu at the top of the page and select “embed”.

Open the dropdown menu in the menu bar, located after the Download button. Select Embed from the dropdown menu.

 

A menu will open on the right-hand side of the page with the embed code. Select “copy embed code” at the bottom of the page.

Section showing player options (size, autoplay, responsive, show title). The embed code is available past the options. The copy embed code button is available after the code.

 

In MyPlace navigate to the location where you want the video to appear - usually this would be a MyPlace Label or Page resource. (From your class page, turn editing on and then click on Add an activity or resource to access these options).

These options will have a MyPlace text editor displayed when you edit the content:

In the Label text (Label option) or Page content (Page option) text editor, click in the Expand icon to display the full tool bar then the html icon.

The text editor in Myplace. Select the first button to expand more controls. Select the html editor, last menu item in this image.

Place your cursor where you want the video to appear and paste the HTML code that has already been copied

The editor shows the embed code that was pasted in. An html iframe tag with the video data.

 

Click on Save and display. You should see the video you have just embedded with the option to view the transcript.

Once saved the video will show on the course page as an embedded video player that has the video title at the top and a big play icon at the center.

Watch the video for a quick demonstration.

Demonstration of embedding a video in Myplace from Stream on Sharepoint