Videos are great for enhancing your lessons and providing deeper engagement for your learners. That's why we make it easy with a video block and video upload options within many interactive blocks.

Here's how to get started.

• Insert a Video Block
  • Modify the Video Block
  • Disable Forward Seeking
  • Require Learners to Watch Videos Before Moving On
  • Watch Picture-in-Picture Videos
• Insert a Video Into an Interactive or Custom Block
• Disable Playback Speed

Insert a Video Block

1. Open a Rise 360 microlearning or edit/create a lesson in a course. 
2. Select Video from the blocks shortcut bar.
   
   Alternatively, click the insert block icon (+) that appears when you mouse-over a boundary between blocks, choose the Multimedia category in the sidebar, then select Video. 
3. To upload your own video, hover over the block and open the sidebar by clicking the Content icon in the formatting toolbar.
4. Click Edit and select Replace video.
5. Drag and drop or select Choose file and select your video file. Your video is processed automatically. 

For best results, we recommend using high-quality videos with a 16:9 screen ratio. The maximum file size is 5 GB. More details on video compression, including how to disable it, can be found here. Add closed captioning to your video to improve accessibility. Content Library 360 videos aren't supported in Rise 360.

Modify the Video Block

Mouse-over a video block, then click the Format icon that appears in the formatting toolbar. Here you can adjust the block padding, video width, and corner radius. You can also disable forward seeking.

Disable Forward Seeking

By default, forward seeking is enabled for video blocks. To disable this option:

1. Mouse-over a video block, then click the Format icon that appears in the formatting toolbar.
2. Deselect Allow forward seeking.

Here are answers to some common questions about disabling forward seeking:

Can learners rewind a video when forward seeking is disabled?

Yes. Learners can rewind the portion of the video they already watched, but they can’t move the seekbar forward to skip ahead. (On mobile devices, it may appear that learners can drag the seekbar forward, but the video won't actually skip ahead.)

Can learners fast-forward a video the next time they view it?

In most cases, yes. It depends on where your course is hosted.

• If your course is hosted in an LMS, learners can fast-forward after watching the entire video, even if they close the course and launch it again later.
• If your course is hosted on a web server or you're using the shareable web link, learners can fast-forward after watching the entire video until they close the course. If learners close the course and launch it again later, forward seeking will be disabled again until they watch the entire video once more.

Can forward seeking for videos in interactive blocks be modified?

Forward seeking can’t be disabled for videos in interactive block types, such as accordions, tabs, or knowledge checks.

Require Learners to Watch Videos Before Moving On

When you disable forward seeking, learners can’t fast-forward through videos, but they can skip over videos without watching them. Here’s how to require learners to watch video blocks before moving on with the lesson.

1. Disable forward seeking as described above.
2. Restrict course navigation or turn off the course sidebar so learners can’t skip lessons.
3. Add a continue block after video blocks. Set the Completion Type to require learners to complete the block(s) above the continue block.

Watch Picture-in-Picture Videos

Learners can play videos using picture-in-picture mode in browsers that support it, such as Google Chrome and Firefox. Picture-in-picture mode moves the video to a floating window so learners can watch it and scroll through lesson content at the same time.

Insert a Video Into a Supported Block

On blocks that support video such as tab, process, timeline, hover over the block and click the Content button. Select the element where you’d like to add media, click the Upload media icon, then select and upload your video. After adding the video, you can replace or remove it by clicking the Replace with new upload icon. You can also add videos to custom blocks.

Disable Playback Speed

Playback speed lets learners select a playback speed that’s comfortable to them, from 0.25x up to 2x, they just need to click the icon to the right of the time remaining. It's enabled by default for all videos and video blocks. Here’s how to turn it off.

1. From the course outline, click the Theme icon.
2. Select Navigation.
3. At the bottom, toggle the Video Playback Speed slider to Off.
4. Click Save.