How to Link to Secure Long-running Videos from a Presentation
Jul 24, 2013
Hi there,
I have a series of courses hosted in Articulate OnLine that I created in Presenter 09. They are secured and accessed by licensed users only.
Lately I've been using Camtasia to record live workshops I deliver. A course can consist of 4-6 videos each of which is about hour and a half run time. (Yes the mp4 files are quite large) I'm producing the videos with an index so they are navigatable. I'm considering hosting the videos on Vimeo Pro or Screencast.com Pro. Both of which have a player and will allow me to password protect (and hide) a video from the public view.
Since I don't have a web-site, I'd like to add to a specially prepared PPT Articulate Presenter course for each workshop that will 'front the videos'. A learner would enter the course from my AOL portal
My current thinking is to place an Articulate web object on a page for each video. They would get to a video by navigating to its page using the regular Articulate player navigation bar. The videos are currently way too big to be placed as flash movies within a page (plus I'd like them to go full screen)
Learners would download lab setups and pdf print courseware from the attachments tab
What is your opinion on this approach?
Can you suggest an alternate approach?
Also
I did a few test deploys into AOL and noticed that when I specified a new browser window and for that window I specified no browser controls (or no address bar) the window and address bar was displayed. What's up with this? How to turn off the browser bar?
Thanks
3 Replies
Hi Yakov! Sounds like a pretty reasonable approach to me. Maybe some others will weigh in too.
I'm getting the address bar to in Chrome and Firefox. Maybe trying to launch the link via javascript could be a way to get rid of it.
Thanks for the feedback. Found Dave Moxon's blog on embedding javascript with web objects.
http://davemoxon.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/how-to-link-from-one-presentation-to-another-part-1/
Tried it out with Screencast. Worked like a charm.
I went with Vimeo Pro. They offer the option of locking down private video to specific URL paths. They also have lots of customization bells and whistles and offer quality advice and support. Interesting thing is that even with the address bar shown on the player page, only the articulate-online address shows.
Vimeo's player embeds in an iFrame which I put in an index.html page and used as a web object target
So far so good.
Sounds like you're off and running. We'd love to hear how it turns out or even see it if you're able to share it. Thanks for the update!
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