Media block

The Media block allows you to add either a ThingLink scene or embedded external content to your scenario. It’s a quick way to include interactive visuals, supporting materials, or contextual information for your learners. To insert a Media block, click 'New block' and select 'Media'. 

Scenes

You can add a ThingLink scene from your account or shared folders. The viewer will be shown the scene you select when they arrive at this block.

To add a scene to a Media block, click the 'Upload or select a scene' button. This will bring up a new window where you can select content from your ThingLink profile and shared folders or upload a new file:

This option is useful for presenting learning materials in context, e.g. as part of a 360° image or an interactive graphic.

We recommend connecting two Media blocks directly rather than using Transit tags to link scenes within a scenario.

Embedded content

The 'Media' option also allows you to embed external content instead of using ThingLink scenes. This can include any tool that can be embedded using iframe embed code as well as some websites. You can use this for:

• Embedding videos from YouTube, Vimeo or others via a link;
• Embedding surveys and quizzes (e.g Google Form);
• Embedding other interactive learning tools (H5P, Wordwall and the like);
• Embedding maps (e.g. Google Maps, OpenStreetMap);
• Embedding whole presentations from SlideShare or Google Slides;
• Embedding webpages (e.g. Wikipedia). Please note that some sites prohibit embedding their webpages, so you won't be able to display them in a scenario.

Any content you can embed into the 'Add content from website' in the main ThingLink image editor can be embedded in scenarios, too.