Adding Resources

1.5. Embed a video in a Moodle book page

For storage reasons, videos should be embedded from a host site (e.g. a YouTube or Vimeo channel) rather than directly uploaded to the Moodle site. With this in mind, please link to videos to embed them in a book page rather than upload them to OpenLearn Create.

To embed a video in a book page:

You will need to copy the embed code from the video where it is hosted on a video channel.

In a book page, switch on the html editor in the Atto editor, then paste the embed code for the video into the appropriate place in the html view of the page.

If there is any text to go with the video, please remember to put the text in the html editor with the <p> and </p> tags.

When you switch back from html mode in the Atto editor for the page, you should be able to see the video embedded in the page.

It is good accessibility practice to add a transcript of the video just below the embedded video in your book page.