I have a tutor who wants to upload a PowerPoint file that includes video
clips to Blackboard - have any of you managed to get this to work?
I know that PowerPoint includes a 'hard link' to the location of the
video file (e.g. E:/videos/my_video.avi) so I used the Package for CD
option to copy all the files (PPT and AVI) to a temporary folder and
make the link to the video simple (e.g. my_video.avi)
I zipped the PPT and AVI files, uploaded to Blackboard and unpackaged
them - with the PPT being the initial file. The PPT is fine, but the
video doesn't play... my guess is that the PPT is being viewed from the
browser cache and hence it *still* can't find the video.
The only option that does seem to work is to Package for CD, upload to
Blackboard and just link to the ZIP file... then get the students to
download the ZIP file to their PC, unzip it and (with luck and a
following wind) they'll be able to view the PP with videos. That is a
bit clunky though, so does anyone have an easier solution?
PS I've tried Impatica, but the videos are too compressed to be really
useful.
Adam
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Adam Warren
Centre for Learning and Teaching
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
tel: 023 8059 4486
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www: www.clt.soton.ac.uk/adam/
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