Made for Kids

Important changes that may impact your monetisation and content discoverability are coming.

From today, all creators are required to tell us if their content is Made for Kids in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and/or other applicable laws. To help you comply, we are introducing a new audience setting in YouTube Studio.

Depending on the amount of Made for Kids content on your channel, you can set your audience at either the channel level or the video level. For those who are setting it at the channel level, it is just one click.

These changes are required as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and NY Attorney General, and will help you to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and/or other applicable laws.

We know that these changes won't be easy for some creators, and that this required change is going to take some getting used to. But these are important steps to take to ensure compliance with the law.

Please read more below to understand your legal obligations and the impact that these choices may have on your channel.

What is changing?

From today, all creators are required to mark their content as Made for Kids or Not Made for Kids in YouTube Studio.

From January, we will limit the data that we collect on Made for Kids content to comply with the law. This means that we will disable personalised ads on this content (which affects revenue for creators making content for children), as well as certain features like comments, notifications and others. Note: You may see some small changes as we experiment and refine our systems over the next few months.

See a list of affected features here.

Why is this happening?

These changes are required as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and NY Attorney General, and will help you to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and/or other applicable laws.

Regardless of your location, we are required to ask you to set your videos as Made for Kids if they fall into that category. Please amend these settings as soon as possible.

We'll also use machine learning systems to help us find content that is clearly Made for Kids. But do not rely on our systems to set content for you – like all automated systems, they're not perfect.

If you don't set your content or if we detect error or abuse, we may set your audience for you. If you fail to set your content accurately, you may face compliance issues with the FTC or other authorities, and we may take action on your YouTube account.

What is Made for Kids content?

We cannot provide specific legal advice, but according to the FTC's guidance on COPPA, a video is child directed (which we call Made for Kids) if:

It is directed to children as the primary audience (e.g. videos for young children).

It is directed to children but children are a secondary audience (e.g. a cartoon video that primarily targets teenagers but is also intended for younger children).

Learn more about the factors that determine if your content is considered as Made for Kids here.

We know that this won't be easy for some creators, and that this required change is going to take some getting used to. While we cannot provide legal advice, we are committed to helping you through this transition.

You can learn more about your own obligations under The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the tools that we are building to support you here.

The YouTube Team

Click here to read more about Youtube's Made for Kids settings.

The deadline for your school magazine pages is Friday 29 November. All pages should be completed and saved in pdf format into the shared Google Drive folder that I will share with you, "St Mary's Magazine 2019."

Here's the details:

• Page size A4 Portrait (You might need to change the page size)
• The pages will be printed full bleed - you don't need a border the printers will print to the edge of the page.
• Print a copy of your pages before submitting them to check the photos are not blurry. Avoid over stretching images as they will look pixelated.
• Each class has a double page spread (2 a4 pages). Your class photo does not need to be on these pages, they will be on a separate page at the back of the magazine.
• Clearly name all pages e.g. Room 1 page A, Room 1 page B. Combining of both your class pages in the pdf is fine.
• Show your class or a colleague before submitting your finished pages so it they are checked.

This doc is where you can sign up to produce the pages for the areas that you are involved in. I am collating the magazine not making it.

Here is a presentation I have used with students to help with a bit of design thinking.

I will arrange some times to support anyone who wants some help designing and making their pages.

Please do not be offended if you get your page back to make alterations.

Don't leave it until the end of the year, check what you should have now here

Last night Anne and Bevan presented this slideshow to Year 2 parents, getting them prepared for 2020 and using a Chromebook for learning.

This is from a Google apps update I am subscribed to.

Rollout update for adding audio to Google Slides presentations

Posted: 11 Nov 2019 09:34 AM PST

Quick launch summary

Earlier this year, we announced the ability to add audio to Google Slides presentations. This feature is fully available to Rapid release domains now. It’s currently rolling out to Scheduled release domains and should be fully available to all users by the end of November.

Availability

Rollout details

• Rapid Release domains: This feature is available now for all users.
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 11, 2019

G Suite editions

• Available to all G Suite editions.

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• This feature will be ON by default.

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