How to Attach a Flash Movie into the Conference Area of a WebTycho Classroom


Deborah Schroeder
Senior Instructional Support Specialist
Center for Support of Instruction
Published: July-August 2011

Category: » Tech-skills-software » Embedding

NOTE: This tutorial assumes you have already created your Flash (.swf) file.

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1. Navigate to your WebTycho classroom.

2. Select the Conferences link from the left menu. 

3. Select a conference topic from the main topics list. (NOTE: The topics in your classroom will differ from what you see in the image). 

4. Click the New Topic button.   

5. Enter a topic title in the Subject field and enter a topic description in the content text area. 

6. Using the scroll bar, scroll down the page until you see the Browse button. 

7.  Click the Browse button. 

8. Navigate to the location where you have saved your Flash (.swf) file. (NOTE: For this demonstration we have navigated to the ValueChain folder.  Your file location will differ from what you see in the image). 

9. Select the appropriate Flash (.swf) file and click the Open button. 

10. The Flash file will appear in the attachment box. 

11. Click the Submit button. 

12. The attached Flash (.swf) file will appear in the topic header area.  To test the Flash movie, click on the Flash (.swf) file link. 

13.  If you are prompted to select a program to play the Flash movie, be sure to select the Adobe Flash player, then click the OK button.

14.  From the Adobe Flash player, click the Play button to test the Flash movie.

 

Acknowledgements

Much thanks to Towanda Jones for her content contribution to this tutorial.

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