ARU staff development

1. Embedding Media in the VLE
bitesize session
Dr Helen Webster
Academic Developer
Anglia Learning and Teaching

2. What does it mean to ‘embed media’?
• How does ‘embedding it’ differ from
– ‘linking to it’ or
– ‘uploading it’?
• What other implications are there when
embedding media?
– Server space
– Copyright

3. Media Options

4. 1: What media can I embed?
Media you have created yourself:
• Through Lecture Capture or Personal Capture
(Echo360) and uploaded to My Capture
• Created and edited using your own or university
equipment and software, and uploaded to
MyPlayer (or external platforms such as Youtube)
• (make sure you haven’t included any copyrighted
material, and that you’ve got any necessary
consent)

5. 1/ What media can I embed?
Media others have created:
• You must not infringe copyright!
• See the Library’s guide to copyright within its staff
Libguide
http://anglia.libguides.com/content.php?pid=354
693&sid=2901165
• Further guidance at JISCLegal
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/
• Search for Creative Commons licensed materials
(see options under ‘Advanced Search’)
• Use Box of Broadcasts for TV clips

6. Copyright and Creative Commons
• Searching for Creative Commons Licensed
materials on Google (Advanced Search Filters)
• Open Education Resource banks (JISC)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/content/resources
• Creative Commons licensed materials
http://search.creativecommons.org/

7. Step 1
• Log into your VLE site, and navigate to the
Content wiki page in which you want to insert
the media
• Click on the 'page' tab to edit the page

8. Step 2
• When the 'Editing tools' tab appears, click on
'Insert'
• Put the cursor where you want the media to
go on the page, and click on the 'Embed
Media' button. A box will appear, asking you
to paste your chosen embed code into it.

9. Step 3
• In another window or tab, find the media you
want to insert (on MyPlayer, MyCapture, Box
of Broadcasts, Youtube, Slideshare etc)
• Find the embed code for the media (click on
'share', 'embed' or other likely looking options
if it isn't presented next to the video)
• (You may have options about what size the
window should be on your webpage)

10. About Step 3…
• What is embedding code? And how do I
recognise it?
– iframes, object or embed markup
• How do I find it?
– Myplayer
– Youtube
– Slideshare
– etc

11. Step 4
• Copy and paste it into the box on the VLE page
you are editing, and click 'Ok'
• Remember to save and close the VLE page you
are editing!

12. Resources
• Short video on embedding media in the VLE
produced by Anglia Learning and Teaching:
https://myplayer.anglia.ac.uk/Play/1631
• Available (linked to, not embedded!) on their
website at:
http://www.lta.anglia.ac.uk/resources.php/LTA-
Resources-Links-How-to-guides-3/
• Using the VLE support guides:
http://vle.anglia.ac.uk/sites/support/vle

13. Sources for Media:
platforms to upload/search

14. Questions and Practice