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Video as an activity

We are facing this predicament at our business at the moment where we have a lot of videos we want the learners to watch.

We want the videos to be:

Trackable - record if they viewed it
Be an activity in Totara
Have a player than is responsive to different screen sizes desktop/mobile/tablet
Not use an iFrame
Have the option to go full screen
Videos to be stored on a different server - a plus

We would normally place the videos in SCORM/Storyline file and an them to Totara using the SCORM activity, but its not feasible anymore due to the amount of videos.

We would love to be able to go to the add activity in Totara and one of the activities are 'Video' and it acts just like a SCORM file would.

Has anyone faced this same problem? What did you do?

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Hi Simone,

An idea could be to investigate H5P and their Interactive Video. Should tick most of the boxes including trackable + that you can of course add all kinds of interactions.

Available as a Moodle plugin or (via LTI/External Tool) from their commercial platform H5P.com.

//Rickard

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Hi Rickard,

Thank you for you suggestion. We are currently in Totara Learn 2.9 and will be soon going to Totara Learn 11 and we'll have the H5P plugin installed, so hopefully that works for us.

Thanks, Simone.

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Hi Simone

You can upload the videos directly (drag and drop) into a course. (They should automatically play in the browser).

You can use the Media plugins that support gallery type tools for images and video https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=60

You could upload them to a non-public youtube channel and embed them back into the courses

You could create a Database activity that makes it easy to find the videos on your youtube channel

You could use the Book activity to add videos and a small description

Or the Page resource that will enable you to organise them into topics without using lots of course real estate

You have quite a few options. It is important to understand who you want to see them, how they are organised and how does the user find the one they want.

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Thank you Stephen, we are currently in Totara Learn 2.9 so it is very limiting. Once we go to Totara 11 and possibly have a video repository of some sort, hopefully I'll be able to use these functions.

Thanks, Simone

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