What sites can be embedded

IMPORTANT NOTES:

This article only applies to users who are embedding sites in a web embed interaction in the PlayPosit designer.

How to embed a site in a PlayPosit bulb

Follow these steps to embed a site in a PlayPosit bulb.

Click Add New Bulb in the My Bulbs tab.
In the designer, add a video to the bulb, then click the Interactions tab.
Click Add an interaction at 00:00.
Select Web Embed.
Paste in the URL in the field labeled Paste an https:// website URL.
Click Done.

What sites can I embed?

There are two criteria a website must fulfill in order for it to be successfully embedded in a PlayPosit bulb.

It must be a secure site.
It must be embeddable. Some sites specifically block themselves from being embedded. For example, when the website https://www.google.com/ is placed in a web embed interaction, the site may appear broken in the interaction preview. This means that site is not able to be embedded.

Note: Most secure sites have https:// at the beginning of the URL. In some browsers, like Safari, they don't display the https:// in the address field but show a locked padlock instead. So, sometimes, just because a site doesn't have https:// doesn't mean it does not support that secure protocol.

Unsure about whether it's a secure page? Test it out in your browser. To test your link to confirm it's secure, you can either paste the link into a PlayPosit Bulb or type " https://" in front of the URL in your browser and see if it works.

How to embed items from websites that do not allow direct embedding from the URL but provide the option to generate embed code?

For items hosted on Google Drive, OneDrive, Google Maps, or other websites that do not allow direct embedding from the URL but provide the option to generate embed code, please follow the steps below to retrieve the embeddable URL from the embed code.

Note:

If the item is hosted on the drive, please ensure its permissions are set to allow everyone with the link to access it so users can access it when taking the Bulb.
If the item is a PDF file, Please also consider downloading the file to your device and importing it to the Bulb directly with the PDF interaction. Please see this article for more information about the PDF interaction in PlayPosit.

Acquire the embed code from the website. Please see the instructions below for acquiring the embed code for Google Drive, OneDrive, Google Maps, and YouTube. If the platform you are using is not listed below, please refer to the platform’s documentation for how to acquire the embed code.
1. Google Drive:
  1. Click the three-dot button next to the item in the drive, select Open with, and select Open in new tab.
  2. Click the three-dot button and select Embed Item to acquire the embed code.
2. OneDrive:
  1. Select the item from OneDrive and click Embed on the top.
  2. Generate and copy the embed code.
3. Google Maps:
  1. Click the menu button on the top to expand the side menu.
  2. Select Share or Embed Map.
  3. Switch to the Embed a map option and copy the embed code.
4. YouTube videos:
  1. Find the YouTube video to embed and select Share.
  2. Select Embed and copy the embed code.
Copy the embed code and paste it into a notepad for editing.
Retrieve the URL from the code by copying the part after src=” and between the double quotation mark.
Paste the URL into the Web Embed interaction and add it into the Bulb.