D2L HowTo – Embed a YouTube Video

1. Go to the YouTube page of the video that you wish to embed.
2. Click "Share", click "Embed" and copy the highlighted text (right click and choose copy).

3. Within D2L, open a News Item, Discussion Post, Content Page - wherever you'd like to embed the video.
4. Click the "Embed" icon.

5. This will open a new window. Paste the text (copied from YouTube) into the HTML Window.
6. Click "Update".

 

7. This will embed the Video into the item. You can then add text.

8. Click "Save & Close" (or "Publish").