Google Classroom - Assignments containing YouTube clips

[BlueSkies]

Hi,

I have been trying to find the best way for teachers to include YouTube clips in their Google Classroom assignments. So far, I have come up with the following options but would welcome any advice or suggestions!

 

YouTube is currently blocked for pupils inside of school, so these options are more for if we need to move to remote learning due to lockdown/pupil isolation.

 

When adding YouTube clips to a Google Classroom assignment, I have asked staff not to use the built-in YouTube search option when adding the clip as there doesn't seem to be any way to playback the search returns before adding them to the assignment. Instead, I have advised them to search for their clips outside of Google Classroom and make sure they have watched them through (to the end!) before copying and pasting into the assignment as a YouTube URL.

 

I have found that even when the pupils play the clips back from inside GC, the option to view on YouTube is available as a click option from the bottom of the clip. Is there a way to prevent them from going out to YouTube from the clip? I have looked at using https://safeyoutube.net/ for teachers to create safe links and post these into the assignment instead ... is that a good idea, or is there another way to stop pupils from opening YT?

 

Thanks!

[mavhc]

Start with https://support.google.com/a/answer/6214622?hl=en

[BlueSkies]

Start with https://support.google.com/a/answer/6214622?hl=en

 

Hi @mavhc, thanks for your reply.

We do currently approve videos for our users but I was just trying to see if there was a way to stop them opening YouTube from the little logo at the bottom of a clip inside an assignment, as that then opens full YouTube with all the list of suggested clips down the right hand side and gives them the opportunity to fall down the YT rabbit hole and distract themselves from what they should be doing! YouTube isn't available as an app from their app launcher as we have switched it off in GSuite but the opening of clips inside an assignment allows them to open YT in a new window. Just wondering if it's possible to prevent this.

[mavhc]

Hmm, in the past activating school mode used to stop recommended videos, seems like it's not a thing any more. There's various extensions, but you'd have to find one that's not user configurable.

 

Can you just block youtube.com as a top level page?

[BlueSkies]

Hmm, in the past activating school mode used to stop recommended videos, seems like it's not a thing any more. There's various extensions, but you'd have to find one that's not user configurable.

 

Can you just block youtube.com as a top level page?

 

We do block access to YouTube for all pupils at school via our content filter policy. I am just really thinking more for when the children might start to have to use Google Classroom at home. The teachers are likely to want to put some YT clips into assignments for them to watch - but from the testing I have done with a test pupil account at home, I can open the YT clip and play it but also click on the YouTube logo that's on the bottom right hand side of the clip and this then opens up the full YouTube window. I have made sure that the YouTube app isn't available for the pupils via the Google Apps waffle - however this doesn't stop the full YouTube window from opening for them.

 

Are there any other setting in GSuite Admin that I can enforce that would prevent the full YT window from opening?

[mavhc]

Are you thinking on their own computers? On school laptops? What OS?

[BlueSkies]

Are you thinking on their own computers? On school laptops? What OS?

 

 

I imagine most children would be using their own home computers/ipads/tablets - we haven't given any devices out to families so far, but I guess that might come for some in the future. All sorts of OS ...

 

I'm just struggling to see how if in GSuite admin, the Student group has You Tube turned off .... why can they open full YouTube from a clip that has been attached to a Google Classroom assignment ...?!