 Hey, folks, in this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to upload a video as unlisted on YouTube and then submit that to an assignment on Canvas. Let's go ahead and get started. All right. So I am logged on to my YouTube channel here. And one of the things that I will mention that is if you have just set up your YouTube channel for the first time, you do want to make sure that you verify your YouTube channels. YouTube.com forward slash verify link. Usually they have you put your phone number in and it allows you to upload videos that are like over 15 minutes long, which may not be necessary for your needs, but is the number one issue that I see students have when trying to use this method. So what I've got here is I have recorded a speech that I want to turn into my public speaking class. I've got that speech sitting on my desktop. I just need to get it into YouTube, set it as unlisted so that I can submit it on Canvas. Let's go ahead and do that process. So the first step, once you're logged into your channel, is to go ahead and click this create button in the upper right hand corner of the YouTube channel page. This tends to give you two options, which is upload videos or if you are verified, go live. We don't want to go live. We just want to upload a video. So this will bring up the upload videos interface and you can either drag and drop the file here or you can click this blue button to go ahead and select your file. Alright, so I'm going to cruise to my desktop and you can see I've got the sample speech here, a student underscore informative speech. I'm going to go ahead and click open and now YouTube is going to go ahead and do its thing. It'll take you a few minutes to go ahead and upload that. But one of the nice things about YouTube is you can actually kind of get things set up with the settings while it's uploading. So let's go ahead and do that now. So I'm going to make sure that I give my speech a useful name and I think what works well is to go ahead and give your name and then what kind of assignment it is in my case. We'll say that I am a student and it is an informative speech. You don't necessarily need to worry about putting a description in here. You can if you like. But the main thing that we want to want to do is to go ahead and click next verify it's not for children, skip through here, skip through the checks and when you get to visibility, there is a bunch of options here. Now, one of the main mistakes that students make when submitting speeches to a class with YouTube is they set it private. Private can be great if you are just sending a video to one other person and you know their Google account. But for being able to share it with other folks in an online class, what you really want is unlisted and this will allow anyone with a link to view it but it's not going to be publicly searchable on YouTube and you'll still maintain control of that. You can set it to public but I don't recommend doing that. In fact, in classes that I teach, I actually restrict students from doing that because I just want these videos to be something that they choose to share with class and not be out there in the broader world. So unlisted is really the best option for that. And then go ahead and click on save. At this point, it'll give you a little bit of an idea of how much time is left until the upload and processing is complete. So we'll go ahead and let it finish and I'll just speed this up real quick so that we can show the submission process. I am great now. Our video has been uploaded and processed. So we can go ahead and click close here. And then what you're going to want to do is to go into your content, which is this button over here on the left. And you can see that my most recent upload is the speech that I want to share. There's a couple different ways you can share the video. An easy way is to click on the options and then click get shareable link. Now I'll go ahead and copy it to your clipboard. You can also go into the video itself and copy it from here or even pull the video up and then just copy it off of the title bar. All right, fantastic. Now that we've got the video link on our clipboard, we're ready to head into Canvas and turn this assignment in. So let's go there next. All right, I am logged in under a student account now and we can see that I've got an assignment guide for a informative speech up, which is a sample assignment that would require you to submit a video. And I'll go ahead and walk you through the process of turning that YouTube link in. So this is a pretty simple way to go about it. Once you get to this phase, click start assignment, go on down here. And while there might be a bunch of different options, what you're looking for is website URL. And this is going to allow you to go ahead and copy and paste that YouTube link in there. And you can see I got the whole link in and you can add a comment if you like. But once that is done, go ahead and click submit assignment. It'll take it just a second, give you a confetti and you can see that your assignment has now been submitted. And if you like, you can click submission details and you can see that the sample of the speech shows up with the link to go ahead and do it. And it's now ready for your instructor to go ahead and evaluate. All right, well, that wraps up the process of uploading an unlisted YouTube video and submitting it as an assignment on Canvas. I hope this was helpful and thanks for watching.