Available YouTube Channels:

LightSpeed (content filter) has automatically "allowed" (meaning ‘made available for students’) some channels that are designated as strictly educational. A few examples of automatically "allowed" channels are: TedED, National Geographic, Crash Course, Minute Physics, Khan Academy, Animal Planet, NASA Scishow, History Channel, and Discovery Networks.

Note: At this time, LightSpeed does not provide a comprehensive list of all of their automatically "allowed" channels; however we do know that at least these channels COULD BE on the "Allowed List" (and likely many others are open as well)

Channels that MIGHT be Allowed

Testing Whether a Channel is on the "Allowed" List

To determine if a channel is open for students, teachers will use their school’s student-demo account. (If you don’t know what that is, ask your school Tech Spec. You will be able to use the fake student account to log into your Chromebook as if you are a student.)

Process:

Share a Google Doc with the student-demo account, titled something like “Links To Test.”
Add a link in that Doc to a specific video or channel you hope is "allowed."
Log out of your Chromebook as a teacher, then log back in as your school’s student-demo account.
As the fake student, navigate to Google Drive and open the Google Doc.
Click the video link. If the video works, then that channel is available!

Special Cases:

If a district PLC team would like to advocate for a channel to be added to the "allowed" list, the team may make the request by submitting a Technology Help Ticket. The ticket will be evaluated by a Content Specialist who will vet and determine if the request can be moved forward.

🏴 IMPORTANT: With 1500+ teachers, at this time we cannot accommodate individual teacher requests for videos or channels, nor can we "allow" individual teacher’s own YouTube channels.

Solutions to Get Videos to Students (no YouTube Channel Needed!)

Use other sites like PBS Learning Media, Discovery Education (if your site has access), National Geographic, etc.
Teachers can record short (1 minute or less) videos on any device (phone, Chromebook, etc.), then upload them directly into Canvas/Seesaw.
Teachers can record audio and video directly within Canvas/Seesaw.
Teachers can create the video in WeVideo and share the link.
For videos that need to be viewed by 100 students or less, teachers can load their videos in Google Drive, set the sharing permissions to anyone in Edmond, then give students the link. Important Note: Google Drive is not designed for storing media files that receive a lot of traffic. Media files stored in Drive (even if they end up embedded in Google Slides), will receive an error message after about 100 people view the file. If more than 100 students will access your video (perhaps because you’re a collaborative rockstar and your school/district PLC team is working together to build content for all your students), you should upload the video in Canvas, not Google Drive.

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Available YouTube Channels:

Testing Whether a Channel is on the "Allowed" List

Special Cases:

Solutions to Get Videos to Students (no YouTube Channel Needed!)

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