During my time in the classroom, I used YouTube to highlight complex science topics.
I also spent a lot of time trying to get students off of YouTube when they should have been working on their assignments!
Google has been trying to “solve” the YouTube problem for years, giving IT admins different controls for filtering and restricting YouTube for students.
In September of 2021, Google announced a new “age-based” policy that once again, impacts how student users interact with Youtube.
For the past two weeks, I have been helping a public school district understand and untangle its YouTube policy. It took us quite a while to figure out how everything works together.
During this episode, I’d like to share what I learned through this process.
- Option 1: Block YouTube access for students, but allow teachers to share YouTube videos through Google Classroom.
- Option 2: Allow filtered YouTube access for students (several different filtering levels)
- Option 3: Provide un-restricted access to Youtube for students
Listen in to learn how to configure the policies in the admin console for each of these scenarios!
Hi John,
When Google implemented these new standards I and some of my teachers lost all of our Youtube videos. Google’s otherwise pretty reliable support has no interest in helping. Pretty frustrated!
Yes, there are many teachers in this situation.
The good news is that once your IT admin adjusts the settings in the admin console to give you full access to YouTube, your channel will be available again.
I would recommend doing this ASAP as they may delete inactive channels after a period of time.
Thank you soooo much! I have been struggling with all this since the age-based setting thing in the admin console. You made this crystal clear!
Excellent!
I will admit, it took me a couple of days of testing and experimenting before I got a handle on it myself!