Friday, 7 November 2008

Embedding media in Teams LX

Has anyone else had problems trying to embed YouTube clips into Teams LX wiki pages? I've noticed a couple of problems:

1: The box that appears when I click 'Insert/edit embedded media' is sized so that the 'insert' button isn't actually visible! It took me a while to realise I had to resize the dialogue box in order to find it. That may be down to my screen settings, but I suspect it will flummox quite a few students.

2: More seriously, the editor doesn't seem able to open YouTube embed addresses. It produces a blank box and then prompts me to download a plugin, which it then says doesn't exist. I have it set to use Flash a the media player, so I can't work out a solution.

Also, the Teams LX help page seems to refer to a previous release (i.e. without an 'embed media' function). The 'knowledge base' on the Learning Objects website isn't any more useful, I fear!

3 comments:

Stampman said...

Ah yes - I've had the same problem and sought advice from Peter at Learning Objects. His advice, however, hasn't solved the problem. Following up on this is one of my tasks today. I'll post some news (to here and the 'new' Owl) as soon as that's done.

The other issue about the default size of the edit box (certainly on my Mac - does it do the same on Windows?) might be rectifiable by tweaking the default settings in the admin controls.

James Nicholls said...

Feck! Have I got my owls crossed? Sorry about that...

James Nicholls said...

Actually, scrap that last comment. It looks like deleted from the Expo version again anyway!

By the way, Search LX appears to be disabled.