General help

Hi Peter,

The simplest (but not the fastest) way to add your Microsoft Stream video in Moodle would be to use the embed code provided somewhere on the video page and paste it in a piece of HTML somewhere in Moodle (in a label or a web page for instance). If the text editor in Moodle doesn't strip your HTML code, that should work flawlessly.

Another option would be to get a URL pointing to an mp4 version of your Stream video (I don't know if Stream allows that). In this case, just pasting this link in Moodle (using the URL resource or in a piece of text) will embed the video thanks to the multimedia filters of Moodle.

A third possibility would be to create a custom filter which would automatically convert a Stream video URL into an embed code. This would require some development.

I haven't used the Generico plugin but it could help in this endeavor: https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_generico

Otherwise here the doc from MS about embedding a Stream video thanks to oEmbed: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/embed-video-oembed

Cheers!

Hi Peter,

It is very easy to add videos using the built-in Atto text editor in Moodle. In fact you used virtually the same editor to write this post!

1. Add either a Label or Page resource to your course
2. In the Content section, click on the Insert or edit an audio/video file icon in the toolbar
3. Click on the video tab
4. Copy and paste the URL to your video into the URL field
5. Click save to close dialog box
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and and Display
   

Hi Peter,

You can definitely do this. But can you clarify where you ideally want to display videos? Is it inside pages, or forums, or in labels on the course page, or all of those places? And can you clarify what sort of links you are trying to use?

Generally Moodle uses filters to display videos in videojs. So it sees a link to something that looks like a video, and it tries to turn it into a video player. You can also embed from the html editor a video directly if you know the video file url.  When I looked at MS Stream, for embedding it had a screenshot like this:

Thats not a link to a video, thats  iframe code. In the html editor you can't easily paste iframe code, but you might use the plugin Generico (or its cousin VideoEasy) to might make that easier.