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For a distraction-free, seamless learning experience, you can migrate embedded YouTube videos in Canvas into Studio, whether they were added with embed code or through the YouTube LTI.

In September 2025, Canvas Studio implemented the YouTube Player for Education. Starting September 22, 2025 any existing or new YouTube videos added to Canvas may display ads. To avoid this you can migrate the videos manually to Canvas Studio or use the YouTube Migration tool in Canvas. The YouTube Migration tool helps teachers identify videos in their course that may display ads.

What happens when you migrate YouTube videos into Studio?

• No ads or pop-ups will appear during playback.
• Overlays (like recommendations, channel info, or “watch later” buttons) are removed.
• You gain Studio tools, including analytics to see how students watch your videos.
• Captions are preserved (only for videos with ‘public’ visibility).

Migration options

• Using the YouTube Migration Tool → videos go directly into Course Collections.
• Migrating manually → videos are saved to your Studio library.

YouTube Migration Tool

Watch this video to learn how to use the Migration Tool in Canvas to migrate any YouTube videos in your course.

Scan Embedded YouTube Videos

You can use the migration tool via the Course Navigation Menu. It is only visible to teachers and appears at the bottom of the course navigation menu on the left.

In Course Navigation, click the YouTube Migration link [1]. To filter embedded YouTube videos, click the Scan Course button [2].

A list displays the Canvas resources where the YouTube videos are embedded [3], the content type [4], and the number of YouTube content detected for each Canvas resource [5].

To migrate the videos into Studio content, click the Review button [6].

To learn more about the YouTube video migration tool visit the YouTube Player for Education FAQs page. In addition the Canvas resource on how to migrate embedded YouTube videos page provides step-by-step instructions and additional resources.

Important!

• Only embedded videos and videos added through the YouTube LTI can be migrated through the Migration tool. YouTube links (which are external) cannot be migrated.
• The migrated videos will only be visible in the Studio ‘Course Collection’; these will not be visible/available through the Studio user library. However, YouTube videos directly added to Studio will be available in the user library.
• Migrated YouTube videos will NOT import in a different Canvas account when shared through Canvas Commons. These will, however, import within the MiraCosta instance of Canvas.
• Captions will NOT automatically appear for migrated videos set to ‘unlisted’ visibility. Captions will need to be created or uploaded for such ‘unlisted’ YouTube videos. Caption will automatically appear for any migrated YouTube video set to ‘public’ visibility.

For more information or if you have questions, please contact Nadia Khan: nkhan@miracosta.edu

Welcome to fall, colleagues! Please see below for important reminders of key online education resources to help all faculty to enable student success!

New and Noteworthy …

• Late in spring, we added a new tool to Canvas called Adjust-All which makes copying previous Canvas courses for reuse a lot easier. It enables you to change all course item due dates and announcement publication dates in one place, rather than having to access each item individually.
• This summer, we’ve added another tool to Canvas to make your life easier as you reuse Canvas courses: TidyUP. TidyUP makes it quick and simple to identify and delete files, folders, pages, and assignments that are no longer in use, making your Canvas course less cumbersome and easier for you and your students to use.
• In case you haven’t heard from other sources, all Zoom recordings from prior to July 2024 will be deleted in early October. This is a decision made at the CCC system level and we can’t change it! So if you rely on older Zoom recordings, you’ll need to download those over to Canvas Studio (most recommended!) or another video storage/streaming solution. ITS and Online Education will be offering support for this in multiple ways over the next 6 weeks.

Expectations and Recommendations for Faculty

• The MiraCosta Online Class Quality Guidelines document – updated in spring -provides MiraCosta requirements and recommended practices for online instructors. 
• Class Availability in Canvas – Faculty teaching distance education (online, HyFlex, and hybrid) classes are expected to make their classes available by mid-day on the Monday of the week in which they begin. To learn more, please see MiraCosta Distance Education Class Authentication Compliance, Start-of-Term Availability Procedures, and Recommendations.
• Accessibility – Please be sure to use the PopeTech accessibility checker on your Canvas classes, and use the auto-captioning and caption cleanup tools for videos created via Canvas Studio, Zoom, or YouTube. 
• Zero- and Low-Textbook Cost Course Sections – If you are teaching one of these, please be sure to mark your class in SURF as LTC or ZTC if you haven’t already, so students know that your class has lowered that access barrier!
• Artificial Intelligence class policy – Students want to know the “rules” around using AI in your class. There is not a blanket college policy but please review the resolution on Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning passed by our Academic Senate in May. Also, check out a 1-page guide to help you craft language to share with your students if you’re still working on that.

Support for You

• OurCanvas start-of-term checklist can help you prepare your classes. New to Canvas? We have lots of resources to help you get started.
• The TIC website is a great starting point for all kinds of information and support for teaching with online technologies – see the last section of this email for specific TIC links to MiraCosta technologies supporting online teaching and learning. 
• Ongoing faculty support – You can set a meeting with Instructional Designer Nadia Khan, for help with Canvas and teaching with tech. For faculty exploring and working on OER/ZTC courses, connect with Instructional Designer Stephanie Kelley.
• Tech Support – Canvas options include 24×7 phone and chat support. Just click the Tech Support button at lower left in Canvas! Zoom and other MiraCostatech support for faculty is available through the MiraCosta ITS help desk.
• Are you interested in potentially joining a monthly or weekly Community of Practice this fall to deepen your understanding of Artificial Intelligence? If you’re intrigued, please fill out the sign-up form or reply to me with any questions.
• CVC has FREE facilitated and self-paced professional learning courses for faculty – see the catalog of online teaching/Canvas options as well as ones focused specifically on ZTC/OER.

Support for Your Students – Please help your students to be aware of and make use of these important services and resources!

• Student Online Academic Readiness workshops – In collaboration with the library, I’ll be offering a number of these during the first half of the term – see all dates and times on the MiraCosta Online site and in Canvas announcements. These workshops provide tech tips, engage students with resources MiraCosta provides to support them, as well as reviewing habits and attitudes of successful online students. Encourage your students to attend and, if you like, find out which of your students participated in order to incentivize their attendance.
• Online Student Support Access Points – the Student Support Hubin Canvas, accessed via the Student Support button on the left in Canvas, gives quick access to online support from the library, Learning Centers, counseling, career center, open computer lab staff, student help desk, health services, CARE team, and more! The Ask the Spartan chat integrated into MiraCosta’s website provides both automated responses and the opportunity to connect to Live Chat with staff from many student support areas. The Help Hut and Online Education webpages are also great starting points for students to connect with all kinds of support services when they’re not in Canvas.
• Tech Support – Also at lower left in Canvas is a button for students to quickly access Tech Help options, including 24×7 phone and chat support from Canvas, and our local MiraCosta ITS help desk. Our ITS team is also offering in-person workshops for students to help them with tech basics – see Canvas announcements for where and when these will be offered!
• Technology Needs – Be sure to share the form for students to fill out if they need a laptop and/or wifi hotspot to succeed this semester/year!
  

MiraCosta’s Online Education Tools

Select the links for a detailed MiraCosta-specific overview (and often, recorded Flex workshops) for each tool below. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions about these or other resources.

• Canvas – goes without saying (well, I said it)
• Adjust-All and TidyUP– as noted above, new tools to make it easier to copy and reuse Canvas courses
• Zoom – if you’re using Zoom, make sure you’re using a pro Zoom account through MiraCosta. 
• Canvas Studio – enables faculty and students to create videos while inside Canvas. Faculty can create interactive discussion or quiz activities based on video. Auto-captioning and caption clean up tools are high-quality and easy to use, but not automatic!
• Pronto is an incredible mobile-friendly and Canvas-integrated messaging platform that’s ready to use in every course.
• Pope Tech helps faculty detect and correct accessibility issues within Canvas. The PopeTech dashboard tool (via the Pope Tech Accessibility course menu item) provides a course-level guide for addressing all accessibility issues in a course in one place.
• SensusAccess provides multi-format course material accessibility and file type conversion options for students. If you notice an S symbol next to your page title and next to items in the Modules view, that’s SensusAccess.
• Perusall is a social annotation tool available within Canvas that makes it easy for students to comment/discuss right on a text, document, or image.
• Lab Archives Electronic Notebook is an online notebook especially useful for translating lab manuals and student notes/work into the online environment.
• PlayPosit – This video interaction tool offers more complexity and options than Studio. Studio is a great place to start, but if you’re looking for more types of interactivity to add to your videos, PlayPosit is great. 
• Turnitin – help students learn to properly cite sources and avoid plagiarism. Also provides grading and peer review tools for written work. Turnitin has included an AI detection capability for instructors, but please beware of false positives should you use it. Most experts agree that AI detection tools are extremely unreliable.

Best wishes for a fantastic fall!

– Jim

Jim Julius, Ed.D.
Faculty Coordinator, Online Education