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Adding Media and H5P

Review the information below to help you embed images, online videos, and H5P content into your Pressbook.

Images

Adding images to your Pressbook:

  1. Choose the image you wish to add.
  2. Navigate to the chapter you wish to add your image to.
  3. Click the Add Media button located above the visual editor.
  4. Upload the image and fill in the information like attribution, source URL, alt text.
  5. Click Insert Into Chapter.
  6. Change the alignment or edit the image if needed.

slide with screenshot of pressbooks visual editor and an arrow pointing to the add media button located above.

It is considered a best practice to use the Media Library (clicking Add Media) rather than copying and pasting an image into the visual editor. The Media Library allows you to store images for re-use, add important details like alt text, figure labels, and attribution information. Attribution information can be used to generate an attribution statement for all of your images and other media which appears at the end of the chapter. For more information, please refer to the Adding Images chapter from the Pressbooks User Guide.

Videos

You can add videos, and other media, easily by copying and pasting the URL into the visual editor. You can also add video files directly to the Media Library. For more information, refer to the Embedded Media and Interactive Content chapter from the Pressbooks User Guide.

Pressbooks. (2018, April 17). PressbooksEDU: Embed video, audio, & multimedia [Video file]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/gQwWesSEjXc

H5P Interactives

To add H5P interactives, you first need to enable the plugin, then either create the content or import it into Pressbooks from the H5P Studio. Please refer to the Pressbooks User Guide: H5P chapter for detailed steps. 

Pressbooks. (2018, April 17). PressbooksEDU: H5P [Video file]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/sBBBJKnYRPo