Dropbox places bandwidth restrictions on how much can be streamed from your account. (Note: We recommend only using Dropbox for small video files. In the resulting dialog: click Create link, click Copy link, then paste the link into Perusall. Consider using YouTube or Vimeo for larger files.) Dropboxįind the file in Dropbox, then click the Share button. Google Drive places bandwidth restrictions on how much can be streamed from your account, and if those bandwidth restrictions are exceeded then your Google Drive videos in Perusall will stop working. (Note: We recommend only using Google Drive for small video files. The link must be publicly accessible (Perusall won't be able to import files that are only shared privately). Alternatively: open up the video, click the three dots button in the upper-right corner, click Share, click Copy link at the bottom, then paste the link into Perusall. In the file list in Google Drive, right-click on the video and click Get shareable link then paste that URL into Perusall. VimeoĮnter the URL of the page in Vimeo that has the video you want to add (e.g., ). To access the original YouTube video and any associated transcript or additional captions that aren't accessible within Perusall, click 'View original web page' in the Perusall Library entry for that video. Due to a technical limitation, captions will always be shown within the Perusall player when available. YouTube only provides captions to Perusall when they are uploaded by the video author (i.e., YouTube's automatically-generated captions won't show up in the Perusall player). The video must be publicly accessible (Perusall won't be able to import private videos).Īccessibility notes: Perusall will show captions on YouTube videos when available. Video types YouTubeĮnter the URL of the page in YouTube that has the video you want to add (e.g., ).

To add a video, select Library > Add content > Video and then enter a URL based on where the video is stored. You can add video to your Perusall course alongside your reading assignments.

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