Tech Tip Fridays!

September 24, 2021

This Friday’s tech tip is how to link YouTube videos in your assignments *without* the ads and recommended videos that are so distracting. It is super simple:
1. Take any YouTube video link – like this one:
2. Move your cursor to the right of the ‘h’ in ‘watch?v’.
3. Insert ‘_popup’ after the ‘h’ and before the ‘?’, and press ‘Enter’. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5LYXvT97VAg
4. You will get a new link in the browser, and you’ll notice the video is now full screen. The new link will have the word ’embed’ in it and look something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5LYXvT97VAg
Use the new link right away, or pop in your assignment – no ads, no recommended video menu, just the video you want.
Happy Friday!