Adding a YouTube Video To Your Course Content Page

Adding A YouTube Video To Your Course Content Page

Create a Link

Adding A YouTube Video In A New or Existing Blackboard Document

YouTube videos can no longer be added to a Blackboard course using Kaltura, but instructors can still add YouTube videos to their course content pages via two different methods. 

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Create a Link

 

1. To begin, click the plus sign and choose Create. 

Arrow pointing to the Create option in Blackboard

2. From here you will choose to create a link from the Create Item menu.

Create Item menu with an arrow pointing to the option to create a link.

3. Add in the information for your YouTube video, including the web link URL, Display Name, and a description. Then click on the Save button (see example image below).  

New Link page with arrows pointing to the web link, display name, link URL, description and save options.

4. From there, you will see you video displayed on your main course content page as well as the description for your video. 

YouTube video displayed on main course content page as well as the description for the video

 

5. You can edit your link or video description by clicking on the 3 dots and clicking Edit. 

Arrow poiting to 3 dots and the edit option.

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Adding A YouTube Video In A New or Existing Blackboard Document

1. If you are creating a new Blackboard document, to begin, click the plus sign and choose Create. If you are adding a YouTube to an existing document, just go to that document and skip to step 4 below.

Arrow pointing to the Create option in Blackboard.

3. Then choose the Document option in the Create Item menu.

Create Item menu with an arrow poiting to the Document option.

 

4. To add a YouTube video, click on the Content option. 

Arrow pointing to the content option.

5. From here you will click on the plus sign to the right of the content menu page and choose YouTube video. This will work the same way if you are adding a YouTube video to an already existing Blackboard document.

Arrow pointing to the plus sign and another pointing to the option to add a YouTube video.

6. From here you can either search for a YouTube video, or, if you know the name of the video, type that into the search box. Once you do that, you will see a list of options. See example below. When you have found the correct video, click the Select button.

YouTube video search page with an arrow pointing to the search box plus another arrow showing the select option to chose a video.

7. You can choose to have your video appear as a link, or it will appear inline with the thumbnail displayed like you would normally see on YouTube. Then click on Insert.Arrow showing how to add the video as a link or as an inline image. Another arrow pointing to the option to Insert video into the document page.

 

8. Below is how your YouTube video will appear when the inline option is chosen.

YouTube video thumbnail on a document page with an arrow pointing to the Save option.

9. You can add content above or below your video as you would with any content in a Blackboard document page. Be sure to save your YouTube video.

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