University of Southern California Video in Blackboard BB9

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Video in Blackboard ? BB9.1

Uploading Video to Blackboard and YouTube

This guide covers the following tasks as they relate to video and Blackboard:

How to make an existing video file available to your students by: o Uploading directly into Blackboard (100MB Limit)............................................................................Page 2 o Uploading to YouTube and Linking from Blackboard ....................................................................... Page 4

About Recording using a Webcam or Recording your Screen .....................................................................Page 11

Uploading to Blackboard or YouTube?

You have a choice of uploading videos directly into Blackboard or placing them on YouTube and linking from Blackboard. Unless security is an important issue, we recommend that you go the YouTube route for the following reasons:

Most students will have web browsers that can play YouTube videos. If you upload videos in Blackboard, there is no guarantee all students will be able to view it. *

Blackboard has a 100MB limit; YouTube does not. (Note that YouTube does have a 15 minutes limit on a single video by you can easily have this increased at no charge by having YouTube send a verifying code to your phone.)

YouTube Security Perhaps the only reason you might want to store a video on Blackboard is security. Videos uploaded to Blackboard can only be viewed by students within the same course. Note however, YouTube does offer some security:

Unlisted ? If you make a YouTube video "Unlisted", someone must know the video's address to view it. Further, it will not come up in a Google or YouTube search. In Blackboard, you would simply provide a link to the video or embed it. For most videos this is sufficient; however, it does not prevent students from emailing the link to someone outside of the course allowing them or anyone they share the link with to view it as well.

Private ? If you make a YouTube video "Private", only students with the Google accounts you have specified will be able to view the video. This is the most secure method but does require the professor to supply YouTube a list of student Google accounts. Note that there is a 50 student maximum and students will be prompted to sign into YouTube using their Google sign in when they click the video.

* Ensuring Students Can View Uploaded Videos (Blackboard / YouTube)

Whether or not students can view videos you have uploaded to Blackboard or YouTube depends entirely upon the web browser they are using, what plug-ins it may have, and what video players they have installed on their computer. Blackboard is just a file/web server and has no video players.

Uploading Videos to Blackboard If you intend to upload videos to Blackboard, we suggest using one of the more common video types listed below. Using a common video type makes it more likely that a student will have the proper plug-ins/players to view the video.

MPEG-4 (.MP4)

Quicktime (.mov) Windows Media Video (.wmv),

Flash

RealMedia (.rm)

(.swf or .flv)

Uploading Videos to YouTube Again, to best ensure that your students can view your videos, we recommend that you upload them to YouTube and make link from Blackboard. YouTube converts the files you upload to a format most browsers can play. YouTube accepts and converts the following file types:

.MOV

.MP4

.AVI

.WMV

.MPEGPS .FLV

.3GPP

.WebM

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Uploading a Video into Blackboard

The steps in this section cover how to upload a video file directly into a Blackboard content area as a "Video". That that if you are uploading multiple videos, you should put them in separate content areas or folders within a content area to speed up load time.

1. Login to Blackboard () using your USC login credentials. 2. Access the course you will be uploading the video to. 3. Go into one of your content areas ("Content" for example).

4. Click "Build Content" then "Video".

5. Type a Name for the video.

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6. Click "Browse My Computer" and select the file you wish to upload.

7. In most cases you will want to go with the default settings as shown here.

8. Specify if the item should be available to students yet.

9. If desired, track the number of hits the video has had.

10. If desired, specify a Display After and/or Display Until date.

11. Click "Submit".

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What Students Might See Depending on their Browser & Players This sections shows what students might get depending upon the file type uploaded and browser and players they have on their computers. Again, being able to play a video depends on the software students have on their computers not Blackboard.

Browser Had Plug-in In this example the student's browser had a plug-in for the file type the instructor uploaded so plays within the browser.

Browser did Not have Plug-in but Computer Does have Player In this example the student's browser did not have a plug-in capable of playing the video; however, if the student clicks on the link to the file and their computer has a player capable of playing it, the video will play in a secondary window as shown below. If they don't have a player, they should be prompted to download one.

Edit / Delete a Video Uploaded to Blackboard

To edit or delete a video you have uploaded to Blackboard, follow the steps below.

1. Access the area you uploaded the video to. 2. Hover your mouse on the video to make the

drop down arrow appear. 3. Click the drop down and select either "Edit"

or "Delete" depending upon the task at hand.

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UPLOADING AND LINKING TO A YOUTUBE VIDEO

The steps in this section cover the following: Creating a Google/Gmail account (if you don't already have one). Uploading a Video to YouTube. Linking to or Embedding a YouTube Video from Blackboard.

Part 1: Acquiring a YouTube (i.e. Google/Gmail) Account

To be able to upload files to YouTube, you must have a Google account (i.e. Gmail). If you don't, you can get one for free by following these steps:

1. Go to Google () 2. Click the "Sign In" button. 3. Click "Create an Account" and then follow the steps provided.

Part 2: Uploading a Video to YouTube

Follow the steps in this section to upload a video into YouTube.

1. Go to YouTube () 2. Click the "Sign In" button and supply your Google/Gmail login credentials (see above). 3. Click the "Upload" button.

If this is your first time uploading a video, you will be asked to create a "Channel". Do so.

4. After clicking "Upload" the window shown to the right should appear. You can upload files to your channel by clicking the red up arrow or by dragging files into the window.

You should also set the privacy level. It controls who can access the video. This can be set before or after uploading the video. See the box to the right for a description of the privacy levels available.

PRIVACY LEVELS

Public ? Anyone can view the video and it can be found in a YouTube or Google search.

Unlisted ? Anyone who has the exact address can view the video. It will not be found in a YouTube or Google search.

Private ? Only students with a Google account you have specifically named can view the video. There is a maximum of 50 users.

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5. Type a name and description for the video.

6. If you have not done so already, set the privacy level. This guide shows the steps for using the "Unlisted" privacy level.

7. Copy the address to your video by highlighting it and pressing Control + C

8. Click "Done".

Viewing Your Videos / Edit Video Settings / Delete Video / Get Video Address Follow the steps in this section to view, delete, edit video settings or obtain your video address.

1. Sign in to YouTube (). 2. Click the options button in the upper right. 3. Click "Video Manager". Your uploaded videos will be listed.

Click a Video to play it.

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Change Privacy / Video Settings / Get Address Click the drop down arrow to the right of Edit and select "Info and Settings" from the list to edit your video settings or get the address to the video.

Delete a Video To delete a video, click the drop down arrow to the right of Edit and select "Delete" from the list.

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