Saturday, 6 April 2013

Unable to upload my screencast to Weebly


I had nearly completed Task 2 today, and I was trying to upload my completed screencast to my Weebly site, but I was having difficulties. I spent many hours trying to resolve this problem by myself. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. I had assumed it was just as easy as uploading a video onto your website, which I had done previously before...

I kept receiving an error message when clicking on the SWF flash icon that my 'File size exceeds the limit, upgrade now to the pro account'. 

My partner suggested that it might be worth looking at upgrading to a pro account if I were to be continuing to use Weebly as my Eportfolio throughout this semester. I looked at this option but then decided against it as it only allowed for 6 or 12 month contracts and I did not want to commit to this. 

I continued to problem solve, by illuminating the different ways I could possible get my screencast onto my site. It wasn't a You Tube video I know, but In desperation and through trial and error, thought I would try this also. Copying the URL link from Screencast.com into the YouTube video icon.This, as I was half expecting, was also unsuccessful. 

I knew somehow I could embed a document. I tried to copy the embed code, again from screencast.com, where my screencast was stored. This was also unsuccessful.  I was now getting extremely frustrated as I just wanted to get this up and finished onto my researcher page.

Why wasn't it working!?!

I tried to Google the problem in search for an answer but this seem to just lead me to paid solutions offered by Apple.

I had wasted so much time trying to resolve the issue by myself I decided to contact our unit coordinator who conveniently happened to be on Skype at the time. This was fantastic because I was able to get an immediate response to my query.  I am now glad that I was able to have this communication with my co ordinator as I dont think I would have been able to successful resolve this problem by myself.

25 minutes later, with the assistance of my unit coordinator, I was able solve this issue. I decided to share this discussion on the LMS with my peers, detailing how you can upload your screencast created with Jing onto a Weebly site incase others were experiencing the same issue.



1 comment:

  1. The best case scenario for the bulls is that this count plays out. if this is the """"worst"""" case scenario for the bears ... it's really not that bad ... if a top hasn't already been formed, we're close. night rats! may tomorrow bring you green shoots on whichever side of the fence you're on.
    http://www.screencast.com

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