YouTube

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Your Journey:
Uploading
Video to
YouTube
***Although much of this document is focused on the Zoom to YouTube Process. All its
advice works with PowerPoint Video or any other method you might use to record your
lectures for your students. Zoom is used since the program is the most used by professors for
Asynchronous and Synchronous learning.

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An Introduction to the Process to YouTube
Finishing your Recorded Zoom Meeting, you are alerted by a pop-up message, which informs
you, your video is recorded and being sent to a folder in your documents. You wonder,
“Where is this folder?”
The above image is what you find the folder looks like. Zoom auto-generates its own folder
(typically in your computer’s documents folder. In this image you can see the Zoom folder by the
red dot (you can also see the Windows Documents folder within which the Zoom folder resides.
If you use Zoom Cloud recording, you will need to download the recording from the Zoom
website first.
You click the Zoom folder and the above image, or something similar, is what you see: a list of
mini folders filled with any recorded lectures housed on your computer. Each of these folders
are named with dates correlated to when they were recorded by you. You ignore the date
modified, instead focusing only on the actual file name which contains the date the file was
recorded in Zoom.
You have found the folder you are interested in. You click it; you see a short list of options.
Audio_only. Playback. Zoom_0. The Zoom program auto labels your recordings for each
meeting. If you record, stop, and then record multiple times during a meeting, Zoom will number
each recording starting from 0, as seen in the above image.
Now you have found your recorded Zoom file. You notice the file is an mp4 or something
similar. You can upload this file to any service, now. You decide on Blackboard. Blackboard is
simple, you are used to the service and so are students. This method works until you begin
receiving notices warning you of your limited space left in your Blackboard course. These
messages repeat daily, eventually, forcing you to delete old recordings of class sessions. You are
not a fan of Blackboard Collaborate, usually using Zoom or creating PowerPoint Videos; and you
are wanting for a more mobile friendly video service that also allows for quick student response
and conversation. You decide on YouTube. How do you do this?
Let us begin…...

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Instructions for Uploading a Video to YouTube
1. First you must create your YouTube account, an act which really means creating a
google account. You can also use your own personal account if you have one.
2. Upon creating your YouTube account, YouTube greets you will its homepage. On the
top right corner, you see this layout underneath your browser’s bookmarks bar.
There is a camera with a + in the middles, a few stacked boxes, a bell, and a symbol with
an initial in it. The camera interests you, as you notice this relates to video. You click it,
then from the drop-down menu you click “upload video.”
3. This image is what you see next.
It is a prompt to upload a file to the YouTube
program. You click the blue upload button
(pictured to the right). You are taken back to
your files to locate your Zoom or PPT file.
Already now being aware of the location of
your Zoom Recorded files, you quickly locate
the appropriate Zoom recorded file. You locate
the “zoom_0” file for this upload.
4. YouTube, then, allows you to edit some
settings for your video file. You can name your
file. You can change your file’s thumbnails. You
can decide which age-restriction your file falls
under. Importantly, you can decide your video’s
privacy settings and scheduled release. As you
decide these choices, you notice a bar towards
the bottom of the prompt. This bar says it is
processing your video. YouTube processes your
video as you make your setting decisions to speed
up the process. There is a video elements option on the second page of the settings
prompt, but this is not necessary.

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5. After making your decisions on video setting, you save and are met with your YouTube
Create Homepage. It looks like this…
Here, you see your videos uploaded. Your videos are listed. They have auto-generated
thumbnails (or thumbnails you have chosen). You see each video’s privacy setting, listed.
You see whether each video has annotations, their upload date, their views and other
important information. You can make further edits to each video, here.
6. On the right-hand side of this YouTube Create Homepage,
you see this dashboard. “Dashboard” provides a homepage for
your video information. “Analytics,” tells you about your video
views etc. “Comments” allows you to see comments on your
videos without needing to go to the video. “Comments,” also
allows you to moderate forum activity. “Subtitles” allows you
to institute subtitles to a video. All these options allow for more
fine-tuning of your content on the service.
Next you go back to videos and click the thumbnail of one of
your videos.
You are met with this screen, where you can make video edits, see the video YouTube link,
etc. You have accomplished your goal. Video is up, link is ready, and you are done!