When we upgrade Blackboard this summer a new feature of interest will is named “Video Everywhere”. Video Everywhere allows you to embed a video recorded from your web cam into any Blackboard content area.
Video Everywhere will sign you into YouTube so that you can record a video with a webcam installed on your computer. The video is saved in your YouTube account as an unlisted video. This means that the video will not be seen if someone should look at the videos uploaded by your account. The only way to view the video is to have the link to it. Blackboard will place the link within your Blackboard course making it easy for others on your course to view your video while keeping it private from others outside of your course.
Within the text editor is an icon to access your web cam.
Web cam icon
Clicking on on this icon you will be asked to sign into YouTube with using your Google Account.
Sign into YouTube
Within a couple of clicks you will have linked your YouTube account.
Grant Access
You may then record your short video without having to leave Blackboard.
Recording via the web cam
And within moments your video will have been embedded within your Blackboard course.
Video within Blackboard course
This feature is available to both staff and students. Videos can be added within most areas of Blackboard where you see the text editor, for example discussion boards, blogs, and wikis, as well as when adding content.