As an alternative to a standard Video Lesson or Audio Lesson, you can add your videos, images, and audio clips alongside text and other lesson content using the WYSIWYG text editor.
In this article:
Adding Videos in the Text Editor
Adding Images in the Text Editor
Adding Audio in the Text Editor
About This Feature
This article provides instructions for how to add videos, images, and audio files to lessons using our WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) text editor. Combining multimedia and text in your course content is a great way to create a dynamic learning experience for your students.
Some of the best places to try this out include:
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A Text lesson - You can use the Text Lesson type to combine multiple types of content, including videos, on the same page.
- A Quiz lesson - Create video-based, image-based, or audio-based quiz questions for your students by embedding multimedia content into the question or answer fields.
For a guide to our text editor and a complete list of lessons that use the text editor, check out: How does the Text Editor work?
Adding Videos in the Text Editor
Embedding Videos From Youtube or Vimeo
First, create a Text Lesson (or any other type of lesson that uses the text editor), and then in this lesson:
- Click the Insert Video button
- Choose the tab for inserting video By URL
- Paste in a video URL from YouTube or Vimeo of the video you wish to embed
- Click to Insert
- Save the lesson
Your video has finished embedding when you see the thumbnail appear in the text editor. You then have the option to enter text around the video:
Make sure to Save your lesson again, once you've added any text.
Looking to embed video using embed code instead? Check out our instructions for how to insert a video with embed code.
Embedding a Video From Your Video Library
If you've already uploaded the video that you'd like to embed in your lesson to your Thinkific Video Library, you can follow these instructions for how to embed an uploaded video in the text editor.
Adding Images in the Text Editor
First, create a Text Lesson (or any other type of lesson that uses the text editor), and then in this lesson:
- Click the Insert Image button
- Select the Upload Image tab and drag-and-drop an image file or click the box to search for an image in your computer files
- Your image will now be embedded in the text editor. You then have the option to enter text around it
- Optional: click on your image and drag the corners to resize the image
- Optional: click on your image to add a link. When students click on the image in the Course Player they will be taken to the linked web page
- Save your lesson
Adding Audio in the Text Editor
- Create an Audio Lesson
- Upload your desired audio file, from your computer files, to the Audio Lesson
- Once the audio file is uploaded, right-click the audio player in the Audio Lesson and select Copy audio address
- Click to Save the Audio Lesson
- Now, create a Text Lesson (or any other type of lesson that uses the text editor)
- In this lesson, click the Insert Audio button
- Paste the audio address copied in Step 3 and click to Insert
- Your audio file will now be embedded in the text editor as an audio player. You then have the option to enter text around it
- Optional: Once you have inserted your audio file link, you can delete the Audio Lesson used to upload the file; the audio file will remain linked in the Text Lesson you created (or in any other type of lesson that uses the text editor)
- Save your lesson
If you have several audio files that you would like to use in your courses, you can create a lesson or a course to upload all of your files to, and leave it as a draft so it is not visible to students.
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