ARCHIVED: In Oncourse or Canvas, how can I link to a lynda.com video segment?

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Important:

Oncourse is retired. For details, see ARCHIVED: About the Oncourse retirement.

At Indiana University, students, faculty, and staff can access online educational materials, including videos, through an agreement with lynda.com.

Important:

After June 30, 2016, lynda.com training will no longer be available free of charge to IU students, faculty, and staff. You might still be able to access and use lynda.com after that date, and many other free and low-cost training options for IU community members are available. Contact IT Training if you have questions about training options.

You can link to lynda.com video segments within any Oncourse or Canvas tool that supports links (e.g., Resources, Assignments, Discussions, Pages). However, users must authenticate to the service before they can access any specific links. To allow them to authenticate, set up two different links, as follows. Be sure to communicate to your audience that they need to visit the authentication link first.

Make a link to allow authentication:
1. Visit lynda.com Online Training.
2. Right-click the Go to Lynda.com link, and choose Copy shortcut (Internet Explorer), Copy Link Location (Firefox), or Copy link address (Chrome).
3. Paste the link in your desired location:
  - In Oncourse, in a tool using the rich-text editor, click the Insert/Edit Link icon in the rich-text toolbar, and then paste the link. In Resources, see ARCHIVED: Working with web links in Resources.
  - In Canvas, click Link to URL, and then paste the link.
Create a link to a specific segment of a lynda.com course:
1. Navigate to any lynda.com course, and click to start any video. A new browser window will open.
2. Click the address field in the browser window's title bar, or press and drag to highlight the URL.
3. Right-click and choose Copy.
4. Paste the link into the desired location.

When users click the authentication link within Oncourse or Canvas, they will automatically authenticate to lynda.com's IU service based on their IU Network ID credentials. Subsequently, clicking a link to a video segment will take them directly to that video.