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title: "Adding Videos to Your Aurora Site"
canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/10781392942/Adding%20Videos%20to%20Your%20Aurora%20Site"
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Faculty and staff can add videos from **Kaltura**, **YouTube** or **Vimeo** into their Aurora site.

This article covers how to get the code to setup **Videos **within the [Classic Editor](#).  Further on this page are instructions on how to use [Block Editor](#).

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  Classic Editor

### Kaltura 

To embed a Kaltura video, 

1. Navigate to [UConn's MediaSpace](https://kaltura.uconn.edu/).
  1. Click **GUEST**.
  2. Click on **Login **in the top right corner.
  3. Login with your NetID and NetID password.
2. Click **+Add New**.
3. Select **Media Upload** to upload your video to Kaltura.
4. View the video.
5. Click on the **Share** tab.
6. Click on **Embed. **
7. Copy the highlighted **iFrame** code.
8. Paste the code into the **text** editor.

### YouTube or Vimeo

To embed a YouTube or Vimeo video, 

1. Copy the video's URL.
2. Paste it into either the **visual** editor or the **text** editor. It does not matter which.
3. Add an **embed shortcode** before it, and a **/embed shortcode** (which includes the slash) after it. See the example below.   
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4. To fix a width, add **width=** to the **embed shortcode.** This acts as a maximum width, the video will never be wider but may shrink if the browser width is too narrow. The measurement is automatically taken in pixels, so if you type **width="280"** it means 280px. See the example below.  
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> 📝 Do not use the video widget.

### Uploading Videos to Aurora

Alternatively, you can upload **MP4** or **OGG** video files, using the **Add Media **button to add it to a page.  Videos can be quite large and may not fit on Aurora. Consider where to store long videos or HD videos.

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### Video Walk-Through using the Classic Editor

For a guided example of how to upload videos to Aurora, watch the video below.

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> ℹ️ For more information about Aurora WordPress, review Aurora's [training and support page](https://aurora.uconn.edu/training/).

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  Block Editor

Visit the WordPress site for instructions on how to use [Block Editor with the Video Block](https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/video-block/?_gl=1*ol9h2r*_gcl_au*OTUwMTM1Mzk4LjE3Mzc2NDM3NjM.) (ignore adds, you do not need to purchase anything). 

### **To make a video full screen**

1. In Block Editor, add a row, change the setting to Full Width or Full Width Stretched.
2. Add the Custom HTML Block and copy the embed code  
You may need to update the width and height.
  1. Common video resolutions include 1920x1080, 1280x720.