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Embedded videos and other content within Canvas
Linked content that can also be made available in Canvas
"Reading List" tool in Canvas to simplify adding content
Embed within Canvas using External Tool. Educational films and documentaries from BBC, PBS, HBO, NatGeo, and many more.
Embed within Canvas using External Tool. Over 35,000 full-length videos in over 20 disciplines.
Documentary films by some of the world's top international film-makers curated by film experts and leading academics.
100+ documentary and educational film series. Includes BBC productions of all 37 Shakespeare plays.
Provides access to over 350 commercial motion pictures from mostly U.S-based studios.
Films and educational documentaries, featuring PBS, The Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, and others.
Embed within Canvas using External Tool. Multi-disciplinary video-clips averaging 3-5 min. duration; closed-captioned.
Use the External Tools feature in Canvas Pages to embed videos and other library resources. For example, selecting Films On Demand opens a search for films by keyword, then select with the Embed button. Watch: Video on using External Tools in Canvas. Note: Use Firefox browser to use External Tools for Academic One File (articles) and Gale Virtual Reference Library (topic overviews and reference book articles).
Embed (Recommended): To embed the video player in Canvas and play the video directly in Canvas, copy the embed code in the Share tool of Kanopy, then paste it as shown below in the Canvas "Insert/edit Media" tool.
Link: the link can be placed on Canvas pages, links will send the student to the Kanopy site after SURF id authentication.
Over 200,000 eBook titles from some of the world's top universities and commercial presses.
eBooks and eVideos on technology, math & science, digital media, IT, engineering and business. Formerly Safari Books Online.
Contains eBooks, encyclopedias, and specialized sources for research in almost all subjects.
A full-text scholarly reference collection on all topics, containing ready-reference as well as the resources of the Oxford Companions.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias are a comprehensive collection of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on a range of topics written by scholars across all fields of study.
Academic OneFile from Gale (Cengage Learning) is a comprehensive periodical database with peer-reviewed journal articles for any research topic.
A collection of downloadable ebooks and audiobooks available for 21 day checkout for viewing and listening on computers and mobile devices.
Using Library Databases, locate the link to the article/eBook/etc you wish to link to (in your LMS, web page, an email, etc.)
The link is usually labeled Stable URL, Permalink, or Bookmark (the Browser URL is not always the permalink)
To ensure off-campus access, the URL must redirect through the MCC Proxy Server where users log-in with SURF id and password.
If the URL already contains ".prox.miracosta.edu" you do not need to modify the URL, just copy and paste the link.
To add the proxy server redirect to the URL, follow one of the examples below.
Example:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3192433
becomes,
http://prox.miracosta.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3192433
or,
http://www.jstor.org.prox.miracosta.edu/stable/3192433
New Permalink instructions for O'Reilly Media Higher Education (Safari eBooks) below.