8.3 Video & Flash

Linking or embedding?
Probably the simplest way to add a video to your course is simply to add a link to the webpage containing the video, as you would do to link to any other webpage.

Here is a link to a video in YouTube:


This works, but it's not the best that we can do. We could take this a step further and copy the 'embed' code from the YouTube page into our page so the video now appears in context:

Providing your system administrator has enabled the multimedia plugin filter (this is outside the scope of this course, so if you are having difficulty embedding videos, speak to your Moodle administrator), we can embed videos in Moodle almost anywhere we like.

But what if you've created your own video and you want to upload this into your course. Or perhaps your organisation blocks or restricts access to video streaming websites. How you can upload your videos into Moodle is the subject of the next page.