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Embed a YouTube video and publish the project.
Overview
Name of explainer: Embed a YouTube video and publish the project
Creative theme: Creating elearning
Software used: Articulate Storyline
User level: BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE
This is explainer 4 of 8 in this series
This series includes:
- Create and save a Storyline project
- Create a title slide using text and images
- Add an interactive button and preview the project
- Embed a YouTube video and publish the project
- Add text-to-speech narration and timed animation
- Embed an interactive 3d object and import music
- Add quiz question slides and a results slide
- Final checks and export options
The Software
This series of explainers uses Articulate Storyline, one of the most popular elearning content creation tools. It’s part of a suite of programs called ‘Articulate 360’ which also includes RISE (a tool for rapid content creation) and the online review and commenting platform Review 360.
You can download a free 30 day demo of Articulate Storyline from Articulate’s website. This gives you access to a fully-functioning copy of Storyline (though with a reduced asset library of characters, photos and icons).
Over the course of these eight explainers we’re using Storyline to create a simple elearning package including buttons, video and 3d object interactions, before going on to add quiz questions and a results slide and exporting the package for use on the web.
The finished product
This is how our final Storyline project looks at the end of this explainer series. Welcome to an introduction to Immersive Technologies!
Note the version created in the explainers also includes a menu students can navigate. This is switched off in the version above. All embedded videos / animations were tested as working when this page was last updated.
The pre-requisities
This is a BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE workflow explainer series. Ideally you’ll already be familiar with simple text and image editing.
If you’re new to IT / computing, you may need help downloading and installing the software. Start with a search for ‘how do i install Storyline’ or speak with someone familiar with downloading and installing.
Why would I do this?
Storyline lets you embed online videos in slides. As long as your clients will be viewing the elearning on web-connected devices, you can incorporate YouTube and Vimeo videos using a simple embed code. Videos from most public sites that support sharing and embedding will also work.
Storyline is not able to play embedded videos when you ‘preview’ a project. Instead, you need to ‘publish’ it (which is just as easy).
Let’s do it!
Click the play icon to watch this video. Subtitles are available – Click the settings cog at the bottom right for options. You can also watch this video full-screen by clicking the full-screen icon at the bottom right.
Good to know
If your clients are unlikely to have online access, you can import videos directly into your Storyline project file. To do this, go to the INSERT menu and select VIDEO, VIDEO FROM FILE…
Using this method can result in large file sizes so use the embed method where possible.
Where to next?
In this explainer we use the option to ‘PUBLISH TO WEB’ to test the project in a web browser. Once a project is complete it can also be published to an LMS or even exported as a set of files to give to people on a USB stick or disc. We’ll review all these export options in the final explainer (explainer 8).
Remember, this is part of a series of explainers for this software – Join us again for the other explainers in the series 🙂
Notes and updates
There are no notes or advisories at this time. This video explainer was last updated in June 2023. This page was last updated in June 2023.
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