As a community facilitator or designer, you may find that you'd like to guide your community members to engage in content that lives outside of the Participate platform. Our platform pages and courses support this ability for many tools using Iframes.

An Iframe, or Inline Frame, is a way to display content from one website on another website. Community admins and designers have the ability to use Iframes to enhance their pages and courses on Participate.

1. In either a page or course you're creating, click the + button to select content to embed. Select "Iframe".

2. There are ways to embed content. You may either:

If you choose to use a url, consider setting it at 600px. This setting will display nicer for most viewers' screen displays and make the full Iframe window visible from their typical view.

3. Click the blue "Insert" button. The embedded content will display with a blue outline.

4. To view what the final embedded content looks like for your community members, save your changes and click "view page."

Here's a brief video showing an example of this process– first using html embed code, second using a url and image height.

There are a lot of options! Here are just a few that we've seen our partners use:

You may find a site or two that does not embed correctly, often because the third party site does not allow for this kind of embed.

Let us know! Please don't hesitate to reach out using our blue support chat icon. We're here to help!