There are a variety of tools on the market that you can integrate and use together with Promote by embedding. We like to see them as optional "add ons" that can help you create engaging content for specific purposes in Promote. A lot of these tools are free, but requires some kind of membership, registration or account, and that you will need to create by yourself. Promote Services will not be able to help you with the setup. However when it comes to Promote we are happy to help!
For the most part, the process to get the content in Promote follows the same basic steps no matter what tool you are using.
- In the third-party tool – create your content
- Find the share or embed link and copy it
- Navigate to the text editor in Promote (in an assignment or announcement) and press the video icon
- Paste the link
- Preview and test
Please note that when it comes to webinars - these steps are not applicable. Then you put in a link to the Webinar in Promote instead.
Troubleshooting and support
- Most external widgets use the http-protocol by default. If you embed them into Promote that's accessed using the encrypted http- protocol (note the s), the widget may not be displayed, or may generate an error message, depending on the browser. The solution is to modify the embedded widget code to use https (where supported)
- Adobe no longer supports Flash, so avoid embedding any functionality that uses Flash
Troubleshooting for third party applications, packages, or programs is not provided by Promote Support.