SECTION 1 - File Conversion (RECOMMENDED METHOD)

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1 INSERTING YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON WEBSITE This is the desired method of inserting a YouTube Video. Students are able to access it from their school account. If you are inserting the video for use from your teacher account (won't work with the generic account) or for students to use at home, see the end of this handout for a shortcut method that uses the embed code. SECTION 1 - File Conversion (RECOMMENDED METHOD) STEP 1: Find desired video on YouTube. Copy the URL by highlighting it and right click on the highlighting and select COPY from the menu OR by highlighting the URL and click EDIT from the main menu then COPY. STEP 2: Go to STEP 3: Paste URL (from STEP 1 by highlighting the " - this is already in the URL that was copied and click PASTE) of You tube video into Step 1. STEP 4: Choose avi (or mov) from drop-down menu for format to convert to in Step 2

2 STEP 5: Enter your address in Step 3. STEP 6: Click on CONVERT in Step 4. STEP 7: Wait until file is converted then you have 24 hours to retrieve your file (because we use the free version, it will only save your file 24 hours from the time it is ed to you) it will be sent to your . Do not leave this screen until uploading in complete or the file will not be sent. STEP 8: Look for from Zamzar Conversions about your converted file. Open that mail and click on the link.

3 STEP 9: Click the DOWNLOAD button. STEP 10: SAVE the download (don't open) to a file or your desktop (somewhere you can find it).

4 SECTION 2 - Uploading to Video Library STEP 1: Log into your website (at the CMS Login at the bottom right of the district site) where you want to insert the video. STEP 2: Sign in with your full address and district password. STEP 3: From CMS Home, choose VIDEO LIBRARY from "My Options".

5 STEP 4: Click BROWSE, then find your video, click on it, then click OPEN. STEP 5: A blue line in the green box will show of much of the video is uploaded. This line will need to go the entire way to the right. You may cancel at any time if you don't have the time to wait (it does take a while, especially on longer videos).

6 STEP 6: Once your video is uploaded, it will ask you to refresh your page. The newly upload video should be the first video in your library (sorry, I was uploading other videos when I took the screen shot). Once done, you will find the video in your video library. You can only use videos that have been uploaded to the Video Library. Then return to CMS HOME to add your video to your website.

7 STEP 1: Click on your ONLINE CLASSROOM. SECTION 3 - Adding Video to your Website STEP 2: Go to where you want to insert your video. Click on SCHOOLPOINTE VIDEO icon. STEP 3: Click on the video you want to insert.

8 STEP 4: There are a couple of options available here. If you want the size of the video to be smaller, drag the slider to the left. If you wish to preview the video before you insert it, click the blue area. And finally, click INSERT VIDEO to insert the video on your webpage. STEP 5: Your video will look like the below example (only video code will be show). To see the actual video, first SAVE PAGE, then click on VIEW LIVE SITE. STEP 6: To play the video, click the arrow. If the video is not displayed, go back to Step 5 and click SAVE PAGE.

9 INSERTING YOUTUBE VIDEO USING EMBED CODE PLEASE NOTE: This video will not work using the generic teacher account or from any student account but will from anywhere YouTube is not filtered. STEP 1: Find desired YouTube Video. Click the Share button under the video to reveal the embedded source code. STEP 2: Click EMBED.

10 STEP 3: Highlight the embed copy, right click on it, and click COPY. STEP 4: Go to the district website and log into CMS at the bottom right corner of the page (see steps 1 & 2 under SECTION 2). Navigate to the page where the video is to be inserted. Click the SOURCE button.

11 STEP 5: PASTE the embed code into the text editor in desired position (example is at end since other material is already on the page).

12 STEP 6: Click SAVE PAGE, then click VIEW LIVE SITE. STEP 7: The video will appear on the webpage.