Films on Demand User Guide

Films on Demand provides access to over forty thousand educational films on a wide range of subjects designed to support and enhance the college curriculum. Short educational videos, full-length documentaries, interviews, debates, and archival footage are all represented from over 40 producers including BBC Worldwide, PBS, Films for the Humanities and Science, National Geographic, HBO, Intellecom Learning, and others. Off-campus access to Films on Demand is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of STLCC. Log in from Blackboard or use your STLCC ID number (with ST at the end) and your last name. 

New! - Mobile App

Download the Films on Demand mobile app from Google Play or Apple Store. Create a user account from within the Films on Demand database, then use it to login to the mobile app for easy access to videos on the go. 

Use Blackboard Mashup to Embed Video

New for 2021! 

Within your Blackboard course, from Course Content (or any content area), select Build Content then look under Mashups for Films on Demand Video.  Select this and you'll get a search box. You can search here for Films on Demand videos by title or keywords to embed directly into Blackboard. See the brief video below for details.

Posting a Films on Demand link in Blackboard Learn

Best Practice: make sure you include the title of video in the text in your course, so that students can find it in the Films on Demand database if they need to use an alternative method of access. 

1. Click on the Share icon next to the video in your list of results, or under the video on the viewing screen.
2. A form will pop up for sharing via email. Click on the Embed/Link tab at the top of the form.
3. Copy the Record URL or the LTI Link to use in Blackboard, not the URL at the top of the page. (Record URL links to the video in the database, with all database features and search options; the LTI Link will bring up just the video, with no database options).
4. Copy and paste this string BETWEEN the STLCC EZproxy prefix and the Title URL (that’s after the first ? and before the “u” in url):

auth=ezpr0xy&

Example:  http://ezproxy.stlcc.edu/login?auth=ezpr0xy&url=http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=1990&xtid=8321&loid=17077

Tips: always choose "open in a new window" when placing links in Blackboard Learn. You can also create a user account in Films on Demand to create and store your favorites and playlists.

Which link or code should I use?

What's the difference between the types of links?

• URL Link: The URL Link, with the extra snippet of code, will open the video in the Films on Demand database. Use this option if you want students to be able to use the Transcript feature or to move between different segments and use all of the Films on Demand tools. 

• Embed Code: The Embed Code will place the video within your Blackboard course, rather than linking to it. Use the embed code for short videos, segments, or clips if you want students to stay within your course.

• LTI Link: Films on Demand supplies the LTI link for institutions using course management software that does not support embedded videos. It is useful as an alternative to embedding large videos into a course. It will display the video in a viewer by itself. The segment menu, transcript, and other Films on Demand features will not show. Closed captions are still available.