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How to Embed a YouTube Video in a WebTycho Classroom

Deborah Schroeder

Senior Instructional Support Specialist

Center for Support of Instruction

Published: January-February 2011

Category: » Tech-skills-software » Video

This tutorial reviews the process for embedding a YouTube video in a WebTycho classroom. The embedding process is similar for Class Announcements, Course Content, and Conferences.

1. Navigate to the YouTube video you want to embed in your WebTycho classroom.
   
   
2. Click the Share button.
   
   
   
3. Click the Embed button.
   
   
   
4. The iframe embed code that appears in the text box will not work with WebTycho's text formatting editor. You will need to use the object embed code. To get the object embed code, click the Use old embed code checkbox.  You also need to select the Enabled privacy-enhanced mode checkbox.
   
   
5. If you do not wish to include related videos (these are the suggested videos you see after the main video has played) remove the check from the Include related videos checkbox.
   
   
   
6. Highlight all the content in the text box.
   
   
   
7. Once all the text has been highlighted, right-click with your mouse and select Copy from the pop-up menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+C.
   
   
   
8. After you have copied the embed code, navigate to your WebTycho classroom. You can embed the YouTube video in announcements, Course Content, and Conferences. (NOTE: For this demonstration, we will be embedding the video in Course Content.) 
   
   In order to complete the rest of the steps in the tutorial you need to make sure the WebTycho text formatting editor is enabled.  To do this, select Options--> Account Preferences, then select the Enabled radio button for the text formatting editor.
   
   
   
9. Click the Faculty Center link.
   
   
   
10. Next to Course Content, click the Create Text link.
    
    
    
11. In the Link Text field, enter a title for your item.
    
    
    
12. From the text formatting editor toolbar, select View --> HTML View.
    
    
    
13. Place your curser in the text box.  (Note:  You can put the cursor in between the paragraph tag <p> or you can put it before/after the paragraph tag.
    
    
    
14. Right-click with your mouse and select Paste from the menu.
    
    
    
15. The embed code will be pasted into the text box.
    
    
    
16. Click the Submit button.
    
    
    
17. To test the video, click the link for the item you just created.
    
    
    
18. Click the Play button to ensure the video is working correctly. If the video does not show up, you may want to try repeating the steps listed in this tutorial.
    
    

Acknowledgements

Much thanks to Laddie Odom for her content contribution to this tutorial.