Creating and Uploading Videos

Creating and Uploading Videos
Please follow these steps to create your video for this assignment:

1. 
   Record your short video introduction using a computer camera, cell phone camera or any other recording device that will allow you to save a digital video to your computer.
   
2. 
   Save your video to your computer.
   

Once you have the video saved to your computer, you can either upload it directly to Coursera by using the “Upload File” option. Or you can upload it to a 3^rd party website, such as YouTube, and submit the URL to Coursera. Please follow these steps to upload the video to YouTube. If you cannot access YouTube, there are a number of other video sites that will work, such as ToDou or Youku in China). However, these instructions are specific to YouTube.

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   Go to http://youtube.com and create an account, if you don't already have one. If you do not wish to be identified, create a new account with a pseudonym.
   
2. 
   Sign in, and then click on the Upload button at the top of the page.
   
3. 
   Click on the "Select files to upload" in the middle of the screen and then locate and click on your video to upload it.
   
4. 
   Go to your "Video Manager" page.
   
5. 
   Select the video you want to make “unlisted”. Click the "Edit" button to access the video's settings.
   
6. 
   Go to the Privacy section of the page. There you'll see the option to mark your video as "unlisted", "public", or "private." Select "unlisted". By selecting "unlisted," your video will be hosted by Youtube but cannot be found by searching on Youtube- however, it will be accessible on Coursera once you embed a link. Selecting "private" settings will not allow your classmates to see your video. If you have problems with setting your video as "unlisted", see YouTube's help page.
   
7. 
   Click the "Save Changes" button. Once you've done this, your video will be an "unlisted" video. This means the video is available to anyone with the link, but that it cannot be found in searches. Please respect the privacy of others; do not share other people's URLs unless you have their written permission!
   
8. 
   Copy the URL from your video and paste it into the URL field of the My Submission section of the Peer Review.
   

If you are in China, we highly recommend using the website Youku.com. The site is entirely in Chinese, but the below links should help you navigate the website for those non-native speakers of Chinese.

Create an account: http://yktips.com/how-to-create-youku-account-and-register/
Upload a file to Youku.com: http://yktips.com/how-to-create-youku-account-and-register/

*Note the Youku website might change (as websites often do), but typically using the above directions and a little critical thinking skills, you should be able to get yourself sorted.