How to embed videos in your formr surveys
If you want to embed videos in your study – e.g. because you want to know if watching certain videos has an effect on people’s behaviour or you want to show the participants of your study an example video of a task – you can easily do that with your survey spreadsheet.
All you need to do is to get the embed code of said videos and put it in the „label“ category of your spreadsheet. Via „note“ you can put text above or under the embedded video, but you could also use „mc“ and ask a question directly associated to the video or whatever type you may need. Your spreadsheet could look something like this:
To make your life a little bit easier, here are some ways to get the needed code to embed videos from youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, facebook and ted.
Go to the video on youtube.com, you want to embed and right-click it. Then you select „copy embed code“ (dt.: „Einbettungscode kopieren“) and just paste that into your „label“ column.
Go to the video on vimeo.com and click the „Share“ button (dt.: „Teilen“) beneath the video. You can then simply copy the embed code and paste it into your „label“ column, or previously adjust how the video will be shown by clicking „+ Show options“ (dt.: „+Optionen anzeigen“).
Go to the video on dailymotion.com and click the „Share“ button (dt.: „Teilen“) beneath the video and you get the embed code. You also have the chance to change some settings like player size and starting point – the embed code updates automatically when you make such changes. Paste the embed code into your „label“ column.
Go to the video on facebook.com and click on „Options“ (dt.: „Optionen“) beneath the video and select „embed“ (dt.: „Einbetten“). You then get the embed code and are shown an option of „additional settings“ (dt.: „Erweiterte Optionen“). If you click on this, you’ll get directed to another page (developers.facebook.com) on which you can find further options to change your video settings. Paste the final embed code into your „label“ column.
Go to the video on ted.com and simply click on the „Embed“ button beneath the video. You will then be able to copy the embed code, while you can also chose subtitles and size of the video. Paste the final embed code into your „label“ column.
If you have a direct link (URL) to a video file, perhaps that you have hosted on your own web server or a service such as Amazon S3, you can display it using the HTML5 video tag in the "label" column. Note that only MP4 is currently supported by all major web browsers .
<video width="720" height="540" controls>
<source src="https://sample-videos.com/video123/mp4/720/big_buck_bunny_720p_1mb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Playback error.
</video>