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Adding Videos to Assignments

Learn how to get exciting videos added to your assignments!

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Written by Jamie Greene
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Along with games and assessments, teachers can also add videos to assignments! Teachers can insert a video lesson from Legends of Learning, or insert a link to YouTube or Vimeo. After creating a draft assignment, you will have the option to add a video.

With either option, first click the Add New button from within the assignment builder.


Legends of Learning Video Lessons

From the content selction screen, click on Video Lessons followed by Select This.

The videos relevant to your initially searched topic will automatically populate. You can use the search bar to find videos for other topics.

Click on any of the available video tiles to learn more.

The new window will allow you to watch the video lesson. You can also view the length, features, vocabulary words, and curriculum alignment.

To choose a different video, click the X button. Click Assign This to add the selected video to your assignment.

Then selected video will then be visible within the assignment builder.


Vimeo or YouTube Videos

From the content selction screen, click on Embed Video followed by Select This.

Next, paste in a video link from YouTube or Vimeo.

NOTE: If adding in a YouTube Video, a slider will appear which will give you more control over your selected video start and end time for students.

Next, use the search bar to identify the standard the video is aligned to.

Click the appropriate standard.

Finally, click the Add This button to get your selected video added to your assignment.

You will then see the video within the assignment builder.


When students start an assignment containing a video, the video will show up as an activity within the assignment, as shown below.

Students will not be able to go to the next activity until a span of time equal to the video’s length, as set by you, has passed. If you inserted a Legends of Learning video lesson, the entire video must play before student can move forward.

Students can then progress to the next activity by using the Next button that will appear above the video.

NOTE: If YouTube or Vimeo is blocked by the network the student is using, if the video has been deleted, or if for any reason the video cannot load, the student will be notified and will be able to skip the activity. Teachers are also notified in the Live Assignment view that the video would not load for the student and that the video activity was skipped.

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