YouTube Videos in Chrome and IE

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hvaughn
Community Contributor

Anyone else having a problem with newly added YouTube videos not displaying within Canvas as expected in Chrome and IE? Currently, when a link to a YouTube video is pasted in to the rich content editor of a page, and then the page is saved, the thumbnail is visible, but upon clicking the play arrow, nothing displays. This is in Chrome and IE.  The work-around is to have students open the video in a new tab outside of Canvas, which is ok in the meantime, but should not be a long term solution.  In Firefox the videos work as expected.

You tube video links added last semester seem to be working fine.  Not sure why this is.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Thanks,

Holly

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hvaughn
Community Contributor

Update: You can grab the embed code from the video and paste it in the HTML editor and it will play in Chrome.  It's just the pasting via the RCE that doesn't work when trying to view via Chrome.

And yes, Firefox is another workaround, but it would be nice for the videos to work in all supported browsers.  Fingers crossed.

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