Make and submit video to YouTube

I ask students to create and share short videos of their work. Often, these are “lightning talks,” 2-3 minute presentations. Some lab reports I ask for longer videos, ten minutes, suitable for conference presentations. Regardless, once your slide show is complete you just need to record a narrated presentation of your slides. Keep the length to the required time limit for your assignment.

You need slides and a script. Practice. When ready, pick a well lit room, get comfortable, and talk to your computer while it records you. Review and edit your work.

Apple KeyNote and desktop version of Microsoft PowerPoint have built in routines for recording video from your presentation. Google Slides and LibreOffice Presentation will require you to record from screen, which for macOS is easy to do with included QuickTime player.

Alternatively — and for best control of the product — it’s simple enough to save your slides as jpeg images and build your video and audio narration in iMovie(macOS) or ClipChamp (Microsoft Windows 11). I have not used it, but Chromebook Video editor at veed.io looks promising. There are plenty of tutorials “out there…” Quicktime on macOS also works well — screen capture with audio during presentation of your slides — it’s just tricky to get the timing right.

What to record

You need to save your video to a file. The recommended video file type is mp4 (see https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/2888402) and h. 264 video codec with a standard aspect ratio of 16:9 (see https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6375112).

Submit the video

Upload your media file to YouTube. No files will be accepted or graded if sent to the instructor’s email account, no exceptions.

To load your media file to YouTube, follow these instructions at https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57407?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop.

Submit YouTube link this page

For Chaminade Students — share url link in CANVAS. While you are uploading the video file to YouTube, you will be asked to select the video’s privacy settings: I recommend that you set the video privacy settings to Unlisted.

Once your video file is uploaded, copy and share the video’s url address in the space provided on this page.

For help, see https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57741?hl=en&ref_topic=9257102.

That’s it — should be good to go!

/MD