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These instructions cover how to embed YouTube videos into a Content Area. If your video is not able to be embedded because there is no embed code you can simply link to it by grabbing the url and create a Web Link to the video's address online.

Instructors and students are discouraged from uploading video files directly to Blackboard to preserve server storage and bandwidth for all university users. Users are encouraged to upload the video content to YouTube on their Valpo YouTube account. Visibility settings can be adjusted and most users are comfortable with "Only Those With The Link."  

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Step-by-step guide
  1. Locate the video on YouTube.

  2. Click the Share button below the video. This will open a sharing menu.

    Share button under Youtube video
  3. Click the Embed button on the sharing menu.
    Circled embed button
  4. Copy the embed video code by clicking the COPY button in the lower right of the window.
    Embed Video copy button
  5. Log into your course and navigate to the course area where you'd like to embed the video. Click the Build Content button in the upper-left to open a drop-down menu.
    build content button
  6. Click on Item (from the Build Content menu).
    item circled
  7. Enter a name for the video in the name textbox.
    name in Blackboard
  8. Click on the Source Code Button in the Text editor. This will open the Source Code window.
    source code button
  9. Paste the embed code you copied from YouTube into the Source Code Window box.
    embedded code
  10. Click the Save button in the lower right.
    embedded code
  11. Click the Submit button to add the video to your course.
    submit video button
  12. Press the Play button to view the video.
    play youtube button

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