[ARCHIVED] Remove Auto-Preview for YouTube Videos

[traciebosket]

Hello Fellow Instructional Designers!

I hope there is a way to do this...

I am playing with the New RCE and I do not see a way to remove the auto preview for a YouTube video anymore. I have been looking at the html coding to see if I can remove it, but since I don't know coding, I do not know what I am looking for. I really, really hope there is a way to remove the preview. It makes my pages terrible,

Please help!

Tracie

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[TinaMSwanton]

@tracie bosket This is a great question. I looked and couldn't figure it out. Looking forward to hearing if this exists in the new RCE.

[valentinesking · Accepted solution]

Howdy traciebosket‌,

Great question. Someone at my university suggested to use Bitly to create a short URL for the YouTube video and use that link instead of the YouTube one. Let us know if that works for you,

Sky V. King

[traciebosket]

Great idea! Thanks  @valentinesking ‌, I am going to try it right now...

[traciebosket]

Success!!! Thank you soooooooo much Sky! Life is good

[sooterg]

When I tried getting into Bitly it was a pay site. Did I go to the wrong website?

[traciebosket]

Oh, use this (same link & site)...