Video Services

Introduction

We now have subscriptions to 4 video streaming services. These require authentication via UMID/Duo:

STUDENTS - always begin accessing these by logging into the service using links/info below first and then accessing the link to any specific video your professor provided.

These services are:

• Symptom Media: https://gateway.hshsl.umaryland.edu/eresources.cfm?id=7122

• Psychotherapy.net: https://proxy-hs.researchport.umd.edu/login?url=https://library.psychotherapy.net/stream/umaryland

• Alexander Street: https://survey.hshsl.umaryland.edu/?url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/counseling-therapy

• Kanopy: https://umaryland.kanopy.com/signup/auth/university (please see more about logging in properly below, as it can be confusing)

To learn more about each service keep reading below.

SymptomMedia:  DSM-5, ICD-10: guided study and assessment tools

The first step to viewing ANY SymptomMedia video is always to go to this link:

https://gateway.hshsl.umaryland.edu/eresources.cfm?id=7122

You will then be prompted to log in with your UMID, password and DUO, if you are not already logged in in your browser.

NOTE: you may need to come back and click this link a 2nd time in order to get in. If you see a login window asking for username and password, simply click the link again or paste the URL into the browser and hit it a second time. 

Once you have properly logged in, you will see "Welcome, University of Maryland" in the upper left. You can then view any videos.

FACULTY:

Tip: scroll down to see all video titles, or use control-F (command-F on Mac) to find text in your browser window to locate the video you are looking for.

1. Search to locate the video and click on the video title

2. Copy the URL from the top of your browser

3. In Blackboard, create a "web link" content item, and paste the link into the URL field.

4. Be sure to tell students the same as above: they must start with the gateway link to log in first. Only after they are logged in that way, can they click the link to view the video or find the video via the tip above to play. 

Resource Library: https://symptommedia.com/resource-library/

Blog: https://symptommedia.com/blog/

• A Comprehensive Guide to Symptom Media Features and Benefits: https://symptommedia.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-symptom-media-features-and-benefits/

• Symptom Media For Mental Health Educators: https://symptommedia.com/symptom-media-in-the-classroom/

Psychotherapy.net: Collection of videos on therapy, mindfulness, etc. that go beyond those found on Kanopy or other sites.

Always start by going to this link to log in with your UMID:

https://proxy-hs.researchport.umd.edu/login?url=https://library.psychotherapy.net/stream/umaryland

Search titles using the "search your video library" box in the upper right

Note: once you click to play a particular video, the URL can be posted in your Blackboard course, as long as it looks something like this:

https://www.psychotherapy.net.proxy-hs.researchport.umd.edu/stream/umaryland/video?vid=228

This link includes the "proxy-hs.researchport.umd.edu/stream/umaryland" in it, which will take authenticate people via UMID and then go to the video. Each video has its own unique 3 digit video ID at the very end of the URL.

Please note:  Psychotherapy.net resources that were previously found in Kanopy are now only available via Psychotherapy.net. Please use the search features to locate your video resources.

AlexanderStreet: clinical video library: counseling and therapy

https://survey.hshsl.umaryland.edu/?url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/counseling-therapy

FACULTY: To add a video link to your course:

1. Go to https://survey.hshsl.umaryland.edu/?url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/counseling-therapy to access AlexanderStreet. You may be asked for UMID/Duo login if off campus.

2. Search to locate the video and click on the video title

3. Click "Embed/Link" under the video title info

4. Copy and paste the link provided, which will start with http://survey.hshsl.umaryland.edu - but copy the whole long URL

5. In Blackboard, create a "web link" content item, and paste the link into the URL field. Students will then be able to click to authenticate and go directly to the video. 

PLEASE NOTE: May 2026:

Out of an abundance of attention to the SSW budget and while also fully supporting efforts of faculty in the classroom, SSW is now requiring faculty to request Kanopy videos for your classes in advance, by using this brief form. (Videos on other services such as Psychotherapy.net, Symptom Media and AlexanderStreet are not affected and do not need to be requested!) This is ONLY for Kanopy videos. Please bookmark the form link above for future use. 

After filling in the form for each video for your class, access to the videos for you and students will not change, (you will still access them from the same links, same places, can view them from home or the (virtual/F2F) classroom, however you will need to fill out the form for each Kanopy video you wish to use for your classes going forward, at least 2 weeks in advance. In this way, we can assure that your videos will be available to you and the students, and that the SSW is not paying for videos that are not being used in academic classes. Our usage of Kanopy is now ONLY for SSW academic classes. Please note that most local libraries allow you to set up a free account and access a great deal of videos on Kanopy, and for non-SSW academic course uses, we recommend trying your local library.

Thank you for your attention to this change!

Kanopy: videos, documentaries, etc.

Tip: use the search box to look for videos

Visit Kanopy here: https://umaryland.kanopy.com/signup/auth/university

When you are on the campus network, you don't need to log in - just go there and you can watch videos that are part of the packages to which we subscribe. It is also possible that if you are logged into some campus resources in your browser, you will also have access Kanopy without logging in. You do NOT need to click on "Log in" in the upper right.

If you go to umaryland.kanopy.com and do not see a red "Log in to Umaryland" button, such as in the image below, the chances are, your browser has already logged you in from logging into some other campus service. If you don't see that red button, go ahead and search for videos and view them as needed.

Otherwise, when off campus, you need to log in with your UMID/Duo, like you would for off campus library access: Click the red "Log in to UMaryland" button to log in using your UMB campus credentials.)

What you will be able to log in with should be a standard campus login page (see below), like you see when logging into the library, Blackboard, email, etc. from off campus:

 They make it a bit confusing but the way to get this is from off campus only, and by clicking a red button that said "Log in to UMaryland"

Unfortunately, we don't have a direct link to that login screen that I can give you at the moment, because it's a dynamic process that assesses whether you are on the campus network or not. 

FACULTY: Getting a Link to Share with Students:

• 1. Go to https://umaryland.kanopy.com  - you may need to authenticate via UMID/Duo. 

  2. Search for the video title and click on the title to get to the video view page

  3. Click the "Share" icon

  4. Copy the Share link

  5. In Blackboard, create a web link content item and paste the link into the URL field.

FACULTY: Linking to Video Resources

You can find instructions about how to access resources off-campus here: https://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/offcampus.cfm

If you want to find a link that will work both on- and off-campus to a specific video follow these instructions:

FACULTY: Build Your Own Link

1. Find the permanent URL for the journal, ebook, etc. (ex: Ovid eTOC email links). Note: please make sure you copy a permanent URL, not a session-specific URL.

2. Add the proxy server URL prefix to the front of the permanent URL. The proxy prefix is:

http://survey.hshsl.umaryland.edu/?url=

3. Copy and paste the final link into your address bar to test it. You will then be prompted for your UMID and password.

For example, for a link to a video on SymptomMedia on ADHD with the URL of: https://symptommedia.com/adhd-combined-presentation-a-3/  :   you would provide your students with this:

https://survey.hshsl.umaryland.edu/?url=https://symptommedia.com/adhd-combined-presentation-a-3/

 Please be sure students a logged in to the video service per the links above, before they click a link to view a video.