Hi I'm Emily Butterfield a sixth grade science teacher at Bearden middle school and I want to show you one of my favorite features in Canvas. And this is to embed a video or you can even embed content which allows when your students open a page or a quiz they can go ahead and view the video they don't have to follow a link and you know they'll get to the right place.

So let's go over to a Canvas course and I'm going to add something on to this particular module so let's start with, let's just do a page, a new page and we're gonna say I had my item. And we're gonna go here to embed a video, I'm going to click Edit, and this is going to allow me to add content to the page. Now you can type here, you could add documents, there's a lot of different functions. As you can see all these things here at the top but what I want to do is click this little greater-than less-than sign with a slash between and when I click that so it's going to allow me to put an embed code in here. And we can get these in a couple of places. A lot of times it's from a YouTube video and if you go to a YouTube video and you click share you can get an embed code. Here so if I click embed I have this information I'm gonna copy that, bring it back over here, paste, and once I've done that I'm gonna click Save and you'll see that once it's saved there's the video so students students open this part in the module they'll have a video that they can have access to. The nice thing is you can do multiple videos on a page. So we want to make sure we click that back slash. I usually hit return and paste again until we could paste as many codes as you want so if you want multiple videos for them to view on the same page you can do that and it just stacks the videos one on top of the other.

 Another thing you can do is embed content. So we're gonna go to our next thing this is embed a video - and I'm going to edit now this has a lot of math and science, but if you know what fit simulations are they're fabulous and they also have embed codes. So you'll see here at the bottom you can download it but you can also embed it so rather than sending your kids with a giant link it takes them to a website no prompting. You can send them straight to the activity, oh hang on forgot a step. I've got to click my symbol here and paste and save so now in my students go into the module it takes them straight to the activity I want them to use. So embedding videos saves space, you don't have to worry about downloading it to your computer, you don't have to send kids on a link, you can send them straight to the video or the activity that you'd like. 

So anything you can get an embed code for you can embed in your Canvas course. I hope this was helpful and you have a great day!