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Adding a YouTube podcast to Blackboard

Posted by Mark Winegar on 27th October 2008

Follow these simple steps to embed podcasts into your Blackboard course.

  1. Find a podcast that supports your learning objective. YouTube.com is a great source of podcasts.
  2. Preview the podcast to make sure it is what you want.
  3. Locate the embed code to the right of the miniature viewer screen.
  4. Click on the code to highlight it and then press [CTRL]-[C] to copy it into your keyboard buffer.
  5. Open up the desired content area in your Blackboard course.
  6. Click on the item icon.
  7. Press [CTRL]-[V] to insert the embed code.
  8. Enter a title if desired.
  9. Click submit to complete the update.

When you are done you will see a view window appear in your content area like the one below.

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