Staff Guide: How to embed Panopto video into Course Content and Ultra Documents.
There are two ways of adding Panopto content to your course. The first is to add a link via Course Content, the second is to make a playable embed of your media in a Ultra document.
Adding Panopto media to Course Content
- Start by selecting the Plus button within a course.
- On the dropdown menu select the Content Market option.
- From Institution Tools select the Embed Panopto Videos in your course from the list.
- The Panopto LTI page will load. From here select the video that you wish to add to your course.
- Once content has been chosen, select the Insert button.
To play the video you just need to select the name, you can also press the three dots for the menu to edit the displayed name of the video.
Embedding video into Ultra documents
Embedding Panopto content into an Ultra document is great as you can use it to create enriched learning objects to compliment the Panopto content.
- To start select the Plus button where you want the video to be located.
- On the dropdown menu select Create.
- From here select Document.
- On the new page in the top left is the name for the document.
- Select the Pencil icon and it will allow you to edit the name of the document/page.
- Once you have chosen a name, from the middle select the top Add Content option.
- From the text editor box select the Plus button.
- On the dropdown menu select Content Market.
- From Institution Tools select the Embed Panopto Videos (Link tool).
- The Panopto LTI page will load, select the video/videos that you wish to add to your course.
- Once you have selected the video(s) you want to use, select the Insert button.
- Your Ultra document will now show the embedded video.
- You can make further changes to your Ultra document as well as by selecting the three dots for the menu and selecting from the list the Edit.
- From here you can put in some addition text and images around the video area. Once you are happy with your changes you can select the Save button.
- In addition to the text editor for the video, you can add additional learning content, such as PowerPoint slides etc.
It is important to check the availability of the Ultra document. This can be done by selecting the dropdown in the top right of the page. Setting it to be ‘Visible to students’ will ensure they can see it.
