Adding YouTube Videos

YouTube is much easier to add in Canvas and provides new opportunities for enhancing course resources for your students. Below are two ways to add YouTube videos with brief descriptions of how they can be used differently. Enjoy!

FIND YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO

Go to youtube.com or youtube.com/edu and find your video (example 5 ways to listen better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSohjlYQI2A and copy the URL (web address).

1) ADD THE VIDEO AS AN EXTERNAL URL

This method works well when adding videos as items in a module. For example, you could add YouTube videos in week by week modules and/or add them together in a module named Videos. Students can play these videos without leaving the course.

In an existing module following these steps:

2) EMBED THE VIDEO WITHIN A CANVAS PAGE

This method works well when mixing up content in a page such as text, images, links, and videos. 

In a Canvas module follow these steps

Proceed with inserting the YouTube video

Choosing Return link displays an embedded thumbnail of the video, which is especially useful for the syllabus description where top of page space is at a premium. Regardless, any of the embedded videos size formats will expand to a larger or full size in your course