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Permissions and roles

To complete the procedures in this article, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. This often excludes Students and TAs by default. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles.

For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles.

Here are the steps to adding YouTube video to the Resources tool in Sakai. These same steps apply to most video and slide sharing web sites.

[edit] Link to a YouTube video

• Find the Web Address (URL) for the YouTube video at the top of your web browser
• In the Resources tool click "Add" button beside the main folder or sub-folder you would like the create the new web link in and choose "Add Web Links (URLs)"
• Type in or Copy-and-Paste in the Web Address (URL)
• Add a title for the link
• Click "Add Web Links Now"

[edit] How to Embed YouTube video in Isaak/Sakai

1. Search http://youtube.com for your video
2. 

   

   Embed script
   Find the embed information on the left
3. Copy the embed information (select all and right-click and choose "Copy") With YouTube the classic embed option generally works better with Isaak/Sakai. The start of the source code should start with either <embed or <object These or similar techniques should work for most video sharing sites.
4. Inside the Resources tool in Sakai select where you would like to add the video and choose "Add" > "Create HTML Page".
5. Click the Source button
6. Paste the embed code in the content area (right click and choose "Paste") and then press Continue
   • You're welcome to press Source button again to add context around the slides.
7. Fill in the "Name" of the video and any other information that is relevant
8. Press Finish
   

The YouTube video should now be part of the course content area, you can use the "Student View" tab to preview it.

[edit] Notes

Remember this is content you don't control directly (or maybe even own) so you will have to check to make sure the video still works from time-to-time.

These or similar techniques should work for most video sharing sites.