Using a YouTube Channel

to Deliver Videos to Students

Speaker: John Fellers

web design manager, WICHE

Videos can be a powerful tool to use in preparing students for laboratory activities.

Often your learning management system provides you with the ability to easily upload videos to YouTube.

Youtube Channel

Branding – create a unique identity that ‘positions’ your message

Tracking– use built-in analytics to measure the audience engagement

Organization – use your Channel as a “Digital Asset Management System” (DAM)◦ simplify organization◦ Tagging (Keywords)◦ Update Video Assets

Everything in one place – don’t make your students search all over YouTube for your Videos

Why do you want to aYoutube channel?

Create a Google Account – this will give you access to a BUNCH of Google Applications, including YouTube

Login to YouTube with your Google Account

Explore

How to set up your ownYouTube channel

https://accounts.google.com

Login to your Google account—go to www.youtube.com – your profile pic is in upper right

Click yourProfile Pic to get this drop-down menu.

Make sure you're signed in to YouTube. Go to All my channels. If you want to make a YouTube channel for a

Google+ page that you manage, you can choose it here. Otherwise, click Create a new channel.

Fill out the details to create your new channel.

Create a channel with a business or other name

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1646861?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/create_channel

Click Here!

Name it after your school, class, organization or ??

Give it a Custom URL◦ e.g. “www.youtube.com/WICHEMENTALHEALTH

Set it up for long videos

Add some custom Channel Art

Configure Your Channel

Set up Custom URL– Main Menu

Click your Profile Picture to get the main menu

Click Tube Settings

Click Advanced

Create Custom URL

Visit the upload page at www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload

Click Increase your limit at the bottom of the page, or visit https://www.youtube.com/verify

Follow the steps to verify your account with a mobile phone. Currently YouTube does not offer other ways to verify your account.

By default videos are limited to 15 minutes; to upload longer videos:

Set up Longer Videos

Click “View Additional Features”

Account Verification

Give your channel a custom look and feel by selecting channel art. Channel art can be used to brand your channel’s identity and give your channel page a unique look and feel. Your channel art will be used on all platforms where viewers can see your channel (TV, mobile, tablets, etc.)

Channel Art

YouTube > Help > Channels > Information for Brands & Advertisers

“One Channel” is YouTube’s new channel Layout

There is no longer a background image

Create a custom Channel Banner or header

This is called “Channel Art”◦ Download Free template, custom channel art needs

to be able to scale to fit multiple browser sizes◦ Dimensions are 2560 x 1440 (pixels)

YouTube One Channel

Channel Art Template (PSD or PNG)

Upload Videos

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Share Your Video – Email (Link)

Embed the Video – Web Page, (WordPress?)

Social Media

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