Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Youtube.com Restricted Mode

Rowland Unified School District has implemented Youtube Restricted Mode.

A large number of videos are available when YouTube is restricted. To add additional content, YouTube settings in Google Apps allow approvers to search for and approve additional videos to make them viewable by all users in their organization.  You may become an approver by joining the Classroom Teachers Group.

Here is how to join the classroom teachers group:

Log on to google with your rowlandschools.org account and click on the google apps button, then click groups.

















Click on Browse all to find the Classroom Teachers Group.
Click on the group "Classroom Teachers."









Click on the button "Apply to join group."






Within a day or two, you will be added to the group.  Approval for this group is a manual process.

Youtube algorithmically restricts content that's available through this setting. No algorithm is perfect. If you see inappropriate content, please flag it.


If your Google Apps administrator gave you permission to approve YouTube videos, you have unrestricted access to YouTube and can approve videos for anyone signed in with their Google Apps account in your organization to watch.
By default, super administrators can approve videos.  
  1. Sign in to YouTube with your Google Apps account.
  2. Enter what you’re searching for and then filter the results by Type: Video
  3. Click the video that you want to approve.
  4. Below the video player, click Approve to approve the video for everyone. (as shown below)

Once a video has been aproved by you (the teacher).  This video will be viewable to students if they log on to Youtube with their rowlandschools.org account.