How to Display YouTube videos in your Moodle course

How to Display YouTube videos in your Moodle course
This skills sheet will explain how to embed and/or link to videos in YouTube.
What is YouTube?
YouTube is a video sharing website available at http://youtube.com which
allows you to upload, share and view videos.
Adding a YouTube video to a Moodle course?
There are two ways in which you can add a YouTube video to your
course. You can add a link to the video or embed it within your
course.
Adding a link to a YouTube video:
First of all you will need to copy the link from
YouTube.
1. Locate the relevant video in YouTube.
2. Click on the Share button located underneath the
video and the URL will be displayed.
3. Highlight the URL and then right click on your
mouse and click Copy.
The next stage is to add a URL resource to the
relevant section/topic within your course in Moodle.
4. Click on the drop down list next to Adding a
resource.
5. Select URL from the available options.
6. Insert a name and description for the link.
7. Insert the URL of the link. You can do this by
right clicking your mouse and clicking on Paste.
8. Click on Save and return to course.
Students will now be able to view the YouTube
video by clicking on the title of the URL resource which will be displayed on the
course homepage.
Embedding a Youtube video within your course
You can embed a YouTube video within any section of your Moodle course
were you have access to the HTML editor.
First of all you need to obtain (copy) the embed code of the video hosted
on YouTube that you want to add to your course.
1. Locate the relevant video in YouTube.
2. Click on the Embed button located underneath
the video and the embed code will be displayed.
3. Highlight the code and then right click on your
mouse and click Copy.
Decide where you would like to embed the video
within your course, add the relevant resource or
activity and open up the text editor. This example
shows the video being embedded into a course
summary.
4. Click on the HTML icon in the text editor
5. Right click on your mouse and then click on
Paste.
6. The embed code which you copied earlier should
now appear within the HTML source editor.
7. Click on Update to save the changes.
8. You will now be able to see the embedded video in the preview window
9. Click on Save.
The video will now be embedded within your course and will be displayed
on the course homepage.
This work by Technology Enhanced Learning, York St John University is
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