Embedded youtube videos in Google Slides

[timbo343]

I think this has been raised before but wondering if anyone has had any luck or if they have deemed it as a classroom management issue.

 

We have Impero and we have added youtube.com to the impero block list and sure enough, youtube.com is blocked on the devices that the teacher has set to block impero on.

 

However, students are opening up Google Slides and inserting a Youtube embedded video and playing the video that way.

 

Has anyone got a way of disabling this?

 

For now on the Smoothall i've created a new custom category, added the regex of youtubeeducation\.com\/embed.*docs\.google\.com into the URL Patterns, created a new policy in guardian and set this custom catergory to be blocked for students.

 

This blocks any embedded youtubeeducation videos from being played in Slides.

 

So, has anyone got a better way of doing this?

[msi_school]

There was a GPO setting to prevent users inserting online video but I cant find it now

[timbo343]

There was a GPO setting to prevent users inserting online video but I cant find it now

 

I vaguely remember setting that in the past and then having to undo it because they wanted to import videos into documents. Thing is, does the same restriction apply to Google Slides that are being used on a Chromebook?

[msi_school]

Sorry I did not read your original message correctly I was thinking about PowerPoint.

[36Degrees]

I added the regex of youtubeeducation\.com\/embed.*docs\.google\.com into the URL Patterns, created a new policy in guardian and set this custom catergory to be blocked for students.

 

This blocks any embedded youtubeeducation videos from being played in Slides.

 

 

This has just started to be an issue for us. Can you describe how you did this in Smoothwall please as I'm struggling...

[Neil83]

Can you block *.googlevideo.com? This should stop the videos from playing.

 

i.ytimg.com should also block any thumbnail images.

[36Degrees]

Thanks I'll give that a go but just wondered how you add that URL pattern as I keep getting "Validation failed because "youtubeeducation\.com\/embed.*docs\.google\.com" is not a valid url or domain."

[timbo343]

Thanks I'll give that a go but just wondered how you add that URL pattern as I keep getting "Validation failed because "youtubeeducation\.com\/embed.*docs\.google\.com" is not a valid url or domain."

 

here you go:

 

 

We saw some students trying to import youtube videos into slides the other day and it never worked so the kods just gave up - win!

 

What the URL pattern does is it captures any URL string that starts with youtubeeducation.com/embed and finishes with docs.google.com

Edited February 5, 2025 by timbo343

[36Degrees]

That's great thanks - never occurred to me to click on the advanced button...

[Scan099]

Did this work for you?

[36Degrees]

2 minutes ago, Scan099 said:

Did this work for you?

 

I believe so as the student that was constantly accessing YouTube this way has moved on to other time wasting things...