Adding Videos on OU Campus

General Video Rules: 

1. Make sure the video has been captioned accurately and includes punctuation.
   
2. Avoid making “slideshow” videos that have text displayed on the screen with music as the audio - these are not accessible for non-visual users!
   
3. Video should be optional to watch - do not hide important content/need to knows in a video.

Caption Requirements

Before adding a video to your page, videos legally must be: 

• Accurate: Captions must match the spoken words in the dialogue and convey background noises and other sounds to the fullest extent possible with punctuation.
• Synchronous: Captions must coincide with their corresponding spoken words and sounds to the greatest extent possible and must be displayed on the screen at a speed that can be read by viewers.
• Complete: Captions must run from the beginning to the end of the program to the fullest extent possible.
• Properly placed: Captions should not block other important visual content on the screen, overlap one another or run off the edge of the video screen.

Fill out the Captioning Request Form if captions are not already implemented. There is no cost to your department for having your video captioned.

Adding a Video to Your Page

1. Navigate to the page that is intended to host the Youtube video.
   
   
2. Select  to begin editing content area.
   
   
3. Click to the area on your page that you would like to add a Youtube video.
   
   
4. In the toolbar, click the  (second row, near the right) -OR- the  on the top-right of your page to open the side bar. Click the Snippets header to expand.
   
   
5. Your page will grey out and a pop-up will be displayed. Select YouTube from the "Choose Snippet" pop-up menu.
   
   
6. A small preview of your snippet will be displayed. Click  to insert your selected snippet to the page.
   
   
7. The snippet will be added to your page. It will look like a table: 
   
   
   
8. Fill in the table provided with the URL of the Youtube video, the Title of the video, an optional start time, and if the video is Accurately Captioned.
   
   
9. Click  in the toolbar to save your changes.
   
   
10. Once saved, the Youtube video snippet will transform from a table into an interactable video.
    
    
11.  the page to apply the video to the live site.

FAQs:

• My video is not showing up on my page and am receiving an error message. Why?

   There are two error messages that can appear when embedding a youtube video:

  • Captions: Your video needs accurate captions before being publicly posted online. Please use the Captioning Request Form to request captions and then post your video online once done.
  • No Title: Your video needs a valid title in the title field. "Title" or the default text are not acceptable titles for Youtube and may cause the error.

• What happens if I say my video is captioned but it isn't really?

  The Web Team can pull logs of page edits. If you post a video that is not captioned and mark it as accurately captioned you will recieve an accessibility warning email and may also have your web editing access revoked.

  Captioning is provided free to campus through the Captioning Request Form and must have the captions applied before the video is added to a site. 

• How do I resize my Youtube video?

  By defualt all videos will expand to fit the content area they are given.

  If you want to resize your video to be smaller you will need to nest the Youtube snippet inside of any of the layout snippets.

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