It is often useful to add Tree Links to content elements, especially in cross curricular teaching.  Currently the link opens in the same window, thus taking the user to a different Course if the element is hosted in a different Course.  It would be better if the link opened in a new window or at least there was an option to select, so that the user does not get taken away from the original Course, allowing both elements to be viewed side by side.

Aside from the facility for You Tube videos to be embedded by URL, there is no other way of embedding multimedia content by URL that I can see, other than using it in preprepared HTML embed code.

So currently  I am using the editing tools with the following code

<embed src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/3208.bb.wmv" autostart="false"></embed>

replacing the URL address as appropriate.

It works fine and gets around the problem but is fiddly.  Many schools in England block YouTube.  There are other sites such as the BBC Schools site that provide excellent vidoe clips, but only provide the embed URL and not HTML code

What about opening up the opportunity to embed multimedia resources by URL?