Use Microsoft Stream to Host Video Content in Blackboard

In order to reduce load on the Blackboard servers, it is a good practice not to upload videos directly to Blackboard.  Instead, all EKU users have an account on stream.microsoft.com where they can upload and share videos to other EKU users.  This tutorial illustrates how to use this feature to embed video content into your Blackboard course without hosting the videos on the Blackboard server.

First, go to stream.microsoft.com and click on the sign in button in the top right:

Then, sign in with your full EKU email address as the username and your EKU email password:

Once logged in to Microsoft Stream, click the Create menu on the upper left menu:

From here you can either record your video from the “Camera Recording” or the “Screen Recording” option:

Or upload a video by dragging it from your files into the window (it will then ask you to upload it to OneDrive, click upload):

When this is done, you will get an “Upload Complete” notification on the bottom right-hand side of the screen:

Click “Open” to access the upload. From here you can edit the setting, and the name.

To edit the name, simply double-click on the video’s title and type your preference.

To change the sharing settings, click the red “Share” box on the top right hand corner. From here you can choose to copy a link to the video, email out the video, or get code you can use to embed the video:

For this tutorial, choose the Embed option to get access to the code you can use to embed your video in Blackboard.  Click the Copy button to copy the embed code to the clipboard:

Next you will log in to Blackboard, go to your course content area where you want students to see your video, and create an item.  In the content editor, click the html button on the right side to open the html editor.  This is where you will paste in your video's embed code:

Your video is now embedded in the course!