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Adding YouTube Videos to Courses

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You can include YouTube videos in your courses.

 

 From the YouTube video:

  1. Click the Share button below the video.
  2. Click Embed.
  3. Copy the content from the Embed page.
  4. Paste into Notepad (or a blank document, email, etc. - whatever's handy).
  5. Delete everything before and after (and including) the quotation marks around the URL.
  6. Copy that new URL.

Example:



Before - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

After - https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=_ZWK4qbMJgtYsBaZ


In the Course:

  1. Got to My University > Catalog > Courses.
  2. Select a course to edit or click Add A Course.
  3. Go to 3. Modules.
  4. Click Add Module.
  5. Under Module Type, select Link To URL.
  6. Click Next at the bottom of the page.
  7. Paste the copied link in Content URL.
  8. (Optional Step) Enter in any required viewing minutes.
  9. Click the Next.
  10. Go to Step 5--Next Steps.
  11. Click Preview This Course.
  12. When done, click Finished.

 

NOTE: Some videos are available for downloading, which can be an option (using the above steps, under Module Type, select Upload File instead of Link to URL). However, a lot of YouTube videos are not available for downloading, so this is our recommended method.

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