Streaming Media: Classroom Best Practices

Films On Demand

Authorized use: classroom teaching, research, presentations, and educational non-commercial multimedia projects for use in educational institutions, provided no admission or other fees are charged for public viewing. Licensee and Authorized Users may stream, display, publicly perform, or exhibit the Video Titles asynchronously on a single computer or network, course management system, or password-protected website. Licensee and Authorized Users may electronically save, organize, and share Video Titles or parts thereof with other Authorized Users using tools provided with Films On Demand. Licensee may create and distribute transcripts to other authorized users.  Authorized users include current ISU faculty, staff, and students.  

Alexander Street Press & Garland

Cunningham Memorial library's use terms stipulate that access to this product is limited to ISU faculty, staff, and students.  The material is subject to Fair Use provisions and international law.  Any commercial use of the materials is strictly forbidden without prior consent from Alexander Street Press or the relevant copyright holder.  

Naxos Music Library

You may only access and use the Materials for personal purposes. You may not modify, scan or copy or use any other method now known or to be discovered in future to reproduce, republish, duplicate, translate or distribute in any way any portion of the Materials or use the Materials for any other purpose, or publicly perform or broadcast any of the musical excerpts or recordings included on this Website without the prior written permission of Naxos Digital Services Limited. You may not download the music and recordings of this Service at any time. Any publication, reproduction, public exhibition or further distribution of Materials provided at this Website, whether in whole or in part, is strictly and expressly prohibited.

To request permission, send an e-mail, including your name, username, e-mail and postal address and a description of the purpose of your intended use and the Materials you would like to use to customer.service@naxos.com.

You may print any part of the Materials for personal purposes only, provided you also retain any copyright notice originally included with the Materials.

Open Web Resources

Please refer to the individual sources privacy/ copyright pages for guidance on use.  

Films on Demand Content 

• Create a Canvas page, typically in a module
• Insert the cursor where you want to embed the video. 
• Choose More External Tools > Films on Demand (see screenshot below)

• Paste the full title into the Titles box. (You can also search for videos directly within the Canvas app but searching and filtering is limited.)
• Preview the video if necessary and then click the Embed button. 

• The video displays in your Canvas page as a gray HTML iframe embed box. 
• It will play both on campus and off.
• Click the Save button to save changes to your page and to play the video.

Alexander Street Press Content 

Quick Tip for embedding content in Canvas: create a content item, toggle the editor to HTML and paste it in.

Alexander Street video and audio content can be integrated into Web pages and learning management systems in two ways:links or embeds. Both are provided for video and audio content, playlists, and clips in all Alexander Street collections. “Look for the following symbol below throughout the Alexander Street new interface for items this feature is available for:

Using a link will provide a permanent digital pathway to a specific video, audio album or work, part of a video, audio track, playlist, or clip. Using an embed will generate Java-based code that can be used to add a full-featured Flash-based player directly into any Web page. As with links, embeds can be used for videos, parts of videos, albums, audio tracks, playlists, or clips.

Tips for Links

When linking to content, please be sure to either copy and paste the URL in the text of the popup screen. Do not use the URL displayed in your Web browser's address bar. If you are copying a link into a learning management system, insert it as plain text and not as a Web link, and be sure not to add any spaces to the inserted text.

Tips for Embeds

When embedding content, please be sure to either copy and paste the complete text of the embed code in the popup screen. You can check by verifying that the code starts with “<script” or “<iframe” and ends with “/script>” or “/iframe>”. This embed code should be used only in Web pages. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email clients, and other desktop software do not support this code. Depending on the Web editor you are using, you may need to use the “source code” option for inputting embed codes, as plain text may not be supported. For more information about using iframes, visit the w3schools iframe page.