Tuesday, August 16, 2022

youtube hosted videos on Moodle

There was a query from one of our units, asking how to disable the "Share" link to youtube videos which they embed in their Moodle course. Copy-pasting from my reply:

Some possibilities -

Option 1 - Youtube Custom player embed -
https://www.lifewire.com/embedded-youtube-video-customization-1082489
(I've not tried it, so I don't know if this will help.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0iN7jfM7vs

The above video says that you can just add two parameters like controls=0, but now youtube no longer supports the showinfo=0 parameter.

Option 2 - Custom javascript player embed - something like
https://tikku.com/open-source/jquery-plugins/youtube-tubeplayer-plugin/
(I've not tried it, so I don't know if this will help.)

Option 3 - Youtube hosted videos have an option to make them "private".

Then, only those people who have been specifically given permission to view them can see them.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/157177?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=%2Cprivate-videos

Disadvantage - The user would need to be signed in to their google account in order to view the video.

Option 4 - Putting the videos elsewhere, like Google Drive or some other provider like vimeo,
https://www.colby.edu/acits/2020/01/30/how-to-embed-a-video-from-google-drive/




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