For storage reasons, videos should be embedded from a host site such as YouTube or Vimeo rather than directly uploaded to your course’s homepage.

Embedding a video from YouTube requires a slightly different process.

Embedding a video from anywhere other than YouTube

Place the cursor at the point in the course content where you want to add a video and click on the Embed media icon.

This will open a new pop-up window with the heading Content properties.

Copy and paste the URL of a video into the Enter URL: field.

Assuming the URL is valid, the form should automatically populate the title of the video and the video's dimensions in the Describe this content (optional): and Size fields.

• Amend the description as preferred.
• By default the video's dimensions will appear as 200 pixels wide, which is quite small. If you keep the Auto size tickbox ticked and change '200' to '600', the height will adjust automatically.

Click on Save content.

If you want to replace a video you can do so by double-clicking on it while you are editing your book.

Embedding a video from YouTube

Find the video that you want to embed on YouTube and click on the Share button underneath it. 

This opens a pop-up window showing a variety of sharing options. Click on Embed. 

Make sure that the Enable privacy-enhanced mode tickbox is ticked. In the embed code 'www.youtube.com' should now read 'www.youtube-nocookie.com'. Click on Copy to copy the embed code. 

Go to the page in your Moodle book where you want to add the video and click on the Source code Pro button.

Place the cursor at the point in the course content where you want to add a video and paste the embed code.

Click on Save to return to the editing view and click on Save changes.