Lesson

Hi Tammy,

Not sure this is a Lesson activity question.   I think what you are asking (in Moodle speak),"Can I put a small image like a thumnail in front of a resource or activity in my course?"  The short answer is no.

I think it depends upon which version of Moodle you are using.   The newer versions will not allow you to put an image as part of the title.  I think that was not a potential when we moved to 1.6

Depending upon what you want, I offer 2 suggestions that involve the HTML editor tool.   In a section you can place images and you can do the same with a "add resource" label.  Look at the front page of moodle.org,.  Perhaps use a table, Insert images in each cell that are hyperlinked to the file.  Or simply put a label with an image and hyperlink followed by some text.

Hope this helps   Chris

Is there a way to have a thumbnail displayed on the left of each video title

Yes. You need to make sure that 'Remove HTML tags from all activity names' in Site Administration | Appearance | HTML settings is not checked. Then you can upload the images to the course files and add to the resource title something like

<img src="http://demo.moodle.net/file.php/5/images/moodle-logo.jpg" alt="" />

so as to display the image in front of the video title.

However, Chris' two suggestions above are IME much better strategies than this one.