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Add Media to a Playlist?Create a Folder?
Create a List of Links?
Create Playlists?
Move Files Within Folders?
Sort Content in My Folders?
Use a Folder as a Playlist?
Add Media to a Playlist?
Anyone with a 3C Media Solutions (TechConnect Cloud) account can add media to a playlist. If you have a Faculty and Staff account, please click here for additional information.
To add media to a playlist, please follow these steps:
- Be sure you are logged into your 3C Media Solutions (TechConnect Cloud) account
- Browse the 3C Media Solutions (TechConnect Cloud) website
- Find a video (or audio) file you would like to add to a playlist
- Click "Add to Playlist"
- Select the playlist you want to add the media to
- Click "Save"
Create a Folder?
The Folders feature will allow you to organize the media you will be using. To create a Folder, please follow the steps below:
- From "My Media" within you 3C account, click on "Create Folder"
- Where prompted, name the folder you will be creating
- Click "Create"
The checkboxes on the left of video lists allows you to select files to perform batch operations. Current options allow you to:
- move the selected files to another folder
- generate lists of links to the selected files
- paste into other websites or course management systems.
For more information, please see "Create Folders" (video) (pdf).
Create a List of Links?
To "Create Link List”*
- From within a folder, check the box next to the files you wish to include in the list
- In the "With Selected” drop down, select "Create List Link"
- Click “Go”
You will be shown a list of links to the videos you selected. You can copy and paste these links to external websites.
- Plain List – list of just the links
- HTML Links – links with html
- Embeds – a list of iframe embeds for the videos
*(folders are not supported in the list at this time)
Create Playlists?
Playlist can be created by following the steps below:
- From your account page, click on "My Playlists"
- Click on "Create New Playlist"
- Where prompted, type the name of the Playlist you'd like to create
- From "Share Permissions" drop down list, select "Public", (playlist will be listed on the 3C website), "Protected", (playlist will not be listed on the 3C site and will require a unique link to access), "Private", (playlist will be visible only to you). Note: most often playlists are "Protected".
- Click "Save"
For more information, please see "Create Playlists" (video) (pdf).
Move Files Within Folders?
To "Move" files:
- From within a folder, check the box next to the files you wish to move or list
- In the "With Selected” drop down, select "Move"
- Click “Go”
- You will be prompted for a destination folder - choose your folder and click “Move”
Sort Content in My Folders?
For each folder you have, you can customize how you want the contents sorted.
- Under "Folder "Sorting", choose from the dropdown list:
- Click the "Folder Settings" button.
- Click on the folder you wish to make change to.
- Folder Sorting
- Title (default and original setting)
- Create/Date, Ascending
- Create/Date, Descending
- Custom/Weight
- To create a custom sort, click "Sort Order" on a folder page. You can drag and drop items or click "show row weights" to adjust the sorting weight of items. Click "Save Changes" to save your sort order.
- The sort method you use will be reflected on all the media lists within the folder.
- Folder Sorting
Use a Folder as a Playlist?
Once you have content in a folder you can set it to display as a playlist. To do so:
- Click on “Folder Options / Link” to modify the folders settings
- Click the checkbox “Use folder as playlist”
- Click “Save Settings”