YouTube for EDU - how to share schools playlist?

[Gaz]

As I have said you are welcome to try my test setup which I know works all you would need to do is change the school identifier at SWGfL end.

[witch]

What do you mean create an account? You're not creating an account - you're signing the existing account up to Youtube for Schools.

I mean, I was signed in on the page and went to "sign up" and filled in all the details it asks for: Name email school address etc

I couldn't get any further as the email address was "already in use"

Now I cant even get that far as I am getting an internal server error

[localzuk]

Hmm... In that case, I think your account at Youtube is broken. Try posting in this forum: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/google-education/youtube-for-schools

 

They're pretty slow at replying, but they do eventually.

[free780]

 

I might be asking for trouble weighing into this one.

What happens if you use the share button and copy the url. Remove the s from https. Make sure the playlist is unlisted. This seems to work.

Edited May 1, 2014 by free780

[witch]

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I might be asking for trouble weighing into this one.

What happens if you use the share button and copy the url. Remove the s from https. Make sure the playlist is unlisted. This seems to work.

 

I did that and yay! I can now do a shortcut to the playlist...

But

the clips don't play.

It's odd- either I can't even get them to start, or the list of the clips which comes up on the right of the one you are playing, starts cycling through - selecting each one but not playing either, and then finally coming up with an error of the "please try later" variety

I really thought I had got somewhere

Edited May 2, 2014 by witch

[free780]

You do have headphones/speakers plugged in ?

[witch]

Yes - although frankly I don't blame you for asking. On the basis of this thread I look like a complete beginner

[witch]

If I log on to a different computer I get the normal message about not being able to play the clip because of the edu filter and that it needs to be added to a playlist. If I look at the URL the edufilter ID is in there and of course I HAVE added the videos to a playlist - that's what I am looking at.

Not sure why I get a different result logged on as the same person on a different computer but hey ho ...

[free780]

Its just been a issue on various other threads. If you see a red cross by the speaker in the tray it means windows has not detected any speakers/headphones. You can update the audio driver which may/may not fix the issue. Or you can use the following reg key to disable the audio device detection.

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000\GlobalSettings]

"EnableDynamicDevices"=hex:00,00,00,00

 

All of this is for Windows 7 which I'm assuming you are using.

[witch]

No, the audio is fine. Sadly

[free780]

I would say try the html5 player but it doesn't work with the edu filter. Its annoying because I can replicate the quick cycling through the playlist due to no headphones. You could try the latest flash and closing then re-opening the browser.

[witch]

Flash is up to date on my laptop

But I suspect that even if I got the cycling sorted, I would then get the other message about not being able to play the video because of the edu filter.

 

I am sure that it is something stupid that I have done as it is similar (but not quite the same) in both my schools

[ivantalboys]

If you are getting play lists cycling through videos with out actually playing it maybe that the video is hosted on googlevideo.com and that domain hasn't been unblocked. I had a similar issue and opening up googlevideo.com worked for me. I am still having issues with play lists and subscriptions showing when directing to youtube edu.

[witch]

Got back to this issue today and ignoring the cycling, which I cannot identify the reason for, I am definitely getting the message about not being able to view the clips unless added to a playlist - but they are and the identifier is in the header.

I have managed to get it working in my other school yesterday (no guarantee it will still be working when I get there of course) so yesterday I effectively started again here - following EXACTLY what I did in the other school - logging on and creating a new channel etc etc

The school identifier is there and correct but still no joy

I just wish I understoood what was going on.

[witch]

Still struggling with this

Deleted all channels and one account and started again.

Channel identifier definitely there but still the same issue - vids won't play "with the education filter enabled"