In this set of 10 slides, Jim Janossy of DePaul University uses screen captures to demonstrate how to locate relevant material for courses on YouTube and embed the video into your Blackboard course page.

1. Blackboard Topics
Video Embedding
from YouTube
Instructional Technology Development – SAC 284
itd@depaul.edu – jjanossy@depaul.edu

2. Introduction
•www.YouTube.com is a a freely-available video
posting web site that contains millions of postings,
many potentially useful to illustrate topics with
videos a few minutes long
•You can easily “embed” video in Blackboard at no
space cost to Blackboard because this still plays
directly from YouTube but within your Blackboard
course.
•Very easy to do, nothing technical required!

3. 1 – Keyword search for content

4. 2 – Click inside the “Embed” box
These extra choices
appear when you click
in the embed box

5. 3 – Set choices for options, color, size

6. 4 – Click in box to highlight, Edit Copy

7. Insert comment, paste code as < > HTML
Insert
comment
before
clicking < >
then put
cursor
after text
and click
the < >,
then Edit
Paste

8. 6 – Result as student sees it
Click arrow
to view video

9. If you need help…
•e-mail ITD@depaul.edu
•Call ITD at 773 325-1094
(x51094)

10. Blackboard Topics
Video Embedding
from YouTube
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Instructional Technology Development – SAC 284
itd@depaul.edu