Thumbnails of YouTube Video Links?

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Crozier
Community Member

Hello,

I post a lot of links to YouTube videos in my Canvas class. In the past when I did this, it would automatically include a thumbnail of the video along with the text link. Now, the thumbnails don't appear anymore.

Does anyone know how to get the thumbnails to automatically appear each time? 
I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks,

Matt

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Hello there, @Crozier ...

Do you ever harvest the YouTube embed code that is provided for most videos on their website?  I much prefer this method as it doesn't provide a thumbnail, but rather it displays a large video box where the video will play on the screen.  There are some ways that you can display your YouTube videos on your pages given in this Guide:  How do I link to a YouTube video in the Rich Conte... - Canvas Community.

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johnwsmunro
Community Member

There are two options that I have found. One is to use the embed code which places a large video image on your screen. I was interested in using the thumbnails as I have in the past for organizing several videos on a page. Aesthetically, it was not working for me to simply embed a whole bunch of videos.  The fix I found was in the HTML code which you can access by selecting </> on the bottom right of your edit screen.

There is now some extra embedded code that precedes your shared code

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Use the find Find Function (Ctl-F) to locate "inline" or "disabled". Delete the code in front of your Video links and then save.

Hope that makes sense

 

 

 

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