Embedding a YouTube Playlist in Blackboard

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1. Sign in to YouTube

2. Click on “My Channel” on the left navigation bar.

3. Click on “Playlists” located under your name.

4. Choose the playlist you want to embed into your Blackboard course.

5. Click on “Share.”• You can change the order of videos in this view.

6. Click on “Embed” in the pop-up window.• The code is automatically highlighted.• You can change the video frame size if you desire.

Now, open the Blackboard course

This is a view of a lesson folder page. I tend to group 2-4 lessons together, but it is not required you group lessons. In this demo, I would click on the title “Lesson 3” to open it.

This is the open, editable lesson plan content area called “Curriculum Resources.” I had already selected that option to get to this view.

Click on “Build Content.”Click on “Item” in the window that opens.

Provide a name for your content. Here, it is simply called a demo. In my actual course, I title it the same as the YouTube playlist.

Next, click the HTML icon on the right side of the third toolbar.

Paste (Ctrl V for Win; Cmd V for Mac) the embed code you copied from the YouTube playlist into the HTML pop up window. Click “Update” at the bottom.

A yellow rectangle will show in the content area’s text box. That will be the frame that streams the videos.

Click “Submit” at either the top or bottom right to save this item.

Here is how it will look in the lesson page along with the other content you have available.

You and your students can choose to view different videos in the playlist by clicking on the playlist icon at the top left of the video window.

That’s all there is to it!I hope this helps you add great supplemental content to your

courses your students will enjoy.

The benefit to embedding videos this way is that if changes are

needed, they can be made on the YouTube playlist itself and update in

all courses where the window is embedded instead of making

changes one-by-one in each course on Blackboard.