3 YouTube Tips and Shortcuts

Most of us end up on YouTube at least once a day for a variety of reasons, including the rich educational content YouTube hosts. Hopefully, one of these 3 tips will make your experience more enjoyable!

Tip #1 Autoplay

Do you hate it when the next YouTube video automatically begins playing?  I do!  Did you know you can control that?  Look on the top right, and move the slider to the left, so AutoPlay is off!

Tip #2 Looping

Have you ever wanted to loop a video - keep it playing indefinitely?  I just learned you can do that on YouTube!  While a video is playing, right-click (hold the Control Key and Click).  A submenu appears, and the top option is to loop the video!  So simple!

Tip #3 Closed Captions

Closed Captions provide great support for all the students in your room, not just those who are hard of hearing.   To enable Closed Captions, simply click a 'c' while the video is playing.  It is really that simple!   For even more control, you can click the + while the video is playing, and the Closed Caption font size will increase.  Click a - to decrease the font size.  If you no longer desire Closed Captions, click c again to make them disappear.

That's my tech tip for today!