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You can’t upload a video directly into an Echo360 collection.
If you want to link from Canvas to a video in an Echo360 collection, you must first upload the video to your personal Echo360 library, add this video to the collection, then link to the video from the collection.
For this reason, you can’t upload a video and link to it at the same time from anywhere else in Echo360 apart from your Echo360 personal library.
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WORKFLOW
1. Navigate to a NIDA Canvas course that you want to add the video to
2. Go to a screen in the course that offers the text editor. In this example, we'll use a Page.
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3. Click to edit the Page
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4. In the text editor, place the cursor where you want to add the video
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5. In the toolbar across the top of the editor, click on the blue Echo360 icon
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6. If you don't see the Echo360 icon, click on the plug icon, click on the plug icon and select View All. The click on the 'Echo360' link
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7. In the box that pops up, make sure you are in the 'Library' tab
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8. In the Library tab, you may see the video you want to link to appear straight away. If not, you can search for it
Searching only works if you start typing from the beginning of the title. Echo won't find your video if you start with the middle or end of the title.
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9. You can scroll down in the list of videos to find the one you want
If you only have one video, or if your search only matches one video, you will only see one listed
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10. Click to select the video you want to link to
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11. Make sure the 'Link' switch is turned off, then click on 'Insert'
If the Link switch is turned off (ie to the left), then Canvas will embed the video in the page rather than linking to it
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12. Click on the 'Save' button at the bottom right
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13. You'll then be taken back to the main editor screen
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14. Test out the newly linked video to make sure it works
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15. ADDING A VIDEO BY CREATING A SIMPLE LINK
This is the same process as shown above for embedding a video, but we select a different option towards the end
16. Go in your course page to where you want to add the video then click on Edit to display the text editor
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17. As before, click in the editor where you want to add the video, then click on the Echo360 icon in the editor's toolbar
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18. In the 'Library' tab on the pop-up that then appears, search for the existing video in Echo that you want to add to Canvas
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19. Click on the 'Link' switch to turn it on
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20. Click on the video you want to add
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21. Click on the 'Insert' button
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22. Your link will then be added. You can now change the title of the link if desired
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23. To change the link title, click on the link and wait for the box to pop up
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24. Then select 'Link Options' in the box
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25. In the pop-out that then appears at the right, click in to the 'Text' box and type the new title
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26. Click on 'Done' at the bottom of the pop-out
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27. Click on the 'Save' button to finish adding the new link
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28. Click on the new link to test it. It should then open in a new tab in your browser, allowing you to play the video. Click to close the new tab to return to the main tab.
(If you see the ‘Not Yet Ready’ message, you will need to wait for Echo to process the video before it becomes playable. You can check if the processing has finished by refreshing the browser tab (hit the F5 key).)
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SUMMARY
29. You've now finished linking to videos that already existed in Echo. You did this two ways:
- by embedding the video
- by creating a simple link to the video.
You checked that both videos played in Canvas once you’d linked to them from Echo.
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