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Embed Video from Google Drive in SharePoint (and other sites)

With video sites such as YouTube and Vimeo unavailable to pupils on our networks, it’s often frustrating linking to video files – even the ones we produce ourselves.  However, it is possible to store video files in Google Drive and share them in a certain way which allows them to be embedded into SharePoint Sites or other sites such as WordPress (ie Glow Blogs or WordPress school websites).

Since Google owns YouTube, videos linked this way will have similar controls to YouTube videos so will look familiar to users.

It is, of course, possible to save useful videos from YouTube using the various tools available online as long as you bear in mind any copyright implications, etc.

  1. Copy video file to Google Drive – you can create a new folder to keep your videos separate
  2. Right-click file and select Share
  3. Click Advanced
  4. Beside “Private” click Change
  5. Select “On – Anyone with the link”
  6. Save and Done
  7. Open the video in Google Drive then click the ⋮ icon in the top right
  8. Select “Open in new window”
  9. Click ⋮ and select “Embed item…”
  10. Copy all of the code in the window (make sure you get it all)
  11. Close video windows
  12. Go to SharePoint and open the site you wish to add the video to
  13. Edit the site
  14. Go to where you want to insert the video and select Insert, Video and Audio, Embed
  15. Paste in the code you copied
  16. Click Insert
  17. Save the SharePoint site

As mentioned, you can use the copied embed code in various other services such as WordPress.  However, at present, Microsoft Teams doesn’t allow embedded videos in the conversation window.  You can paste the link to the shared file, rather then the embed code, and this will work although it’s not terribly glamorous!

Office 365 Video

This is now live and there for all to use.

School staff can create channels in to which they or their pupils can upload videos.  Owners of channels can decide who can upload and who can view the videos, by default they are shared across Glow when created but this can be easily changed
You can find out more in the National Help area by clicking on the link below,

https://glowhelp.wikis.glowscotland.org.uk/O365+Video

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