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Embed a video from an external site like You Tube to help illustrate or explain. |
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- Navigate to the video you want to embed on You Tube or Vimeo. Copy the URL of the video. (ex/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c06xOF4uQ8)
- Using the Classic Editor (or a rich text module in Zuse Create), position your cursor where you would like to add the video on the page.
- In the editor, make sure you have the paste as text option selected.
- Paste the URL of the video into the editor. Make sure it doesn't become a link (it will display in blue text and be underlined). If it becomes a link, click on the link and choose the Unlink button.
- Make sure your URL is on it's own line with no other spaces.
- If the URL is non-secure (http://), add an "s" to make it secure. (https://). Since our site is secure it will only load other secure content.
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By default, videos will embed at a set size. Often, this size is too small. To make the video stretch across to fill the width of the page (no matter the size of the page), add the following code around the code you are using to embed the video. If the aspect ratio of your video is 4:3, replace embed-responsive-16by9 with embed-responsive-4by3.
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