10 tricks, tips, and tools for using YouTube in an educational setting.

1. Tips, Tricks, and Resources for Teachers

2. Link directly to any point in a video by right-clicking on the
play marker and selecting “Copy video URL at current point.”

3. Disable the
appearance of
“related videos”
by typing &rel=0
at the end of the
video url.

4. When available,
view interactive
transcripts of
videos by clicking
on the button.

5. Turn on close captioning to
read along with the audio
of the clip. You can drag
the text anywhere on the
screen and control fonts,
colors, sizes, and more by
clicking on “options.”

6. Use a tool like ViewPure (www.viewpure.com) or QuietTube
(www.quiettube.com) to view and share YouTube videos with no
additional visual clutter or distractions.

7. Make any YouTube video play on repeat by simply adding the
word “repeater” after the word “youtube” in the video url.
This tool will also allow you to loop only a portion of the video.

8. Skip directly to the
“important” parts of
a video by adding
&wadsworth=1 to the
end of the YouTube
video url.

9. Access videos blocked in your country by changing the ending
of the video url from watch?v=IEIWdEDFlQY to /v/IEIWdEDFlQY.
This will also launch the video in fullscreen.

10. Quickly and easily download any YouTube video by
adding ss to the URL right before “youtube”.

11. Use TubeChop
(www.tubechop.com)
to quickly and easily
crop YouTube videos
and share only the
best parts.