You can embed a video into a Canvas page and have it begin playing a specified time of your picking. To do this you have to click the “share” button below a YouTube video then click the “embed” choice. When you click the embed alternative you can then define the time at which you want the video to begin playing when it is embedded into a page. In this short video I show those actions to embed YouTube videos into Canvas course pages..

On Friday afternoon I received an e-mail from a reader who was trying to find a little help embedding YouTube videos into Canvas. Specifically, this person needed to know if there was a method to share just a section of video into a course page. Thankfully, YouTube does make this relatively simple to do..