Adding Videos
Here’s guidance on how to add videos to your webpage.
Video Criteria
Web publishers should include only professionally-produced video content on the TU website with a minimum resolution quality of 720p, or standard HD. Embedded TU YouTube videos must be captioned to comply with accessibility guidelines.
While YouTube’s speech recognition technology provides the opportunity for automatic captioning, this does not mean that the captioning process is complete. In order to guarantee accuracy you must review the captions to be certain they reflect what is actually being communicated.
Videos from the official Towson University YouTube channel have already been captioned. If you have questions about captioning and the TU YouTube channel please contact Digital Media Services, digitalmediaservices AT_TOWSON
Video Options
Embedded Video
All embedded media must be approved by the Division of University Marketing and Communications and follow TU accessibility guidelines. To have a YouTube video embedded on your webpage, complete an OTS TechHelp request and provide the YouTube video link as well as the page URL (and location on the page) where you need the video embedded.
In-Content Carousel Gallery
You can add a video to the first image in an In-Content Carousel Gallery. To do this you will need to fill out an OTS TechHelp request. Please indicate the YouTube video link, indicate that you want the video added to an In-Content Carousel Gallery, and also indicate that you want it placed over the first image of the gallery. This image should be a representative “thumbnail” photo of, or from, the video.
In-Content Carousel Block Callout
You can add a video to an image in the In-Content Carousel Block Callout. To do this you will need to fill out an OTS TechHelp form. You will need to indicate the YouTube video link and indicate that you want the video added to a specific image or thumbnail the In-Content Carousel Block Callout.
Stephens Hall
Stephens Hall is one of the original buildings on the Towson University campus and serves as a venue for music and theatre performances
University Union
The University Union is the hub of co-curricular activities and programs for the campus, as well as home to a multitude of student services.
Video Hyperlink
You can link to an external video within the text of your Web page by introducing the video content with a header and/or introductory text and linking the video title.
Obtaining a Thumbnail Image for Your Video
If you DO NOT have a thumbnail image for your video, you will need to have an image extracted from the video and then have that photo cropped and have it added to Modern Campus CMS.
If you need help extracting a thumbnail from your video please contact Digital Media Services, digitalmediaservices AT_TOWSON
Digital Media Services will extract and crop a thumbnail that you can attach to the OTS TechHelp request for adding your video to a given page.