

So how to upload a video to Google Drive? How to share it with your friends? Check out this post and find the answer. It allows you to store videos and synchronize videos across devices in order to save disk space. Want to learn even more Google Workspace tips and tricks? Join our online professional learning community.Google Drive is a cloud storage service developed by Google. However, the video does work correctly when the site is published. Instead, you may see a grey box with a loading symbol. Note: In my testing, I found that videos from Google Drive don’t initially display properly in the site builder interface. Click the video once to select it, then click Select (or double click it). Tip: You can also double-click in the place you want to insert the video and choose From Drive.ģ. Select the Insert section from the right-hand menu, then choose From Drive. shared with specific people or so anyone with the link in your organisation can view).Ģ. Once again, you’ll need to make sure that Google Drive permission settings are configured so that the audience of the Google Site can view the videos (e.g. While you can’t configure any options for these videos (like you can with videos inserted from YouTube), it is a good solution for videos that you cannot host on YouTube. You can also insert videos stored in Google Drive into a Google Site.

Click To Tweet Method 2: Insert a video from Google Drive Want to put videos in your Google Site? Here’s two options. Click the cog button to edit the settings for the video. Tip: You can also paste a YouTube URL into the video search box.ĥ. Alternatively, use the Uploaded tab to choose one of your own YouTube videos. Use the Video search box to search for the YouTube video you want to insert. Tip: You can also double-click in the place you want to insert the video and choose YouTube.ģ. Select the Insert section from the right-hand menu, then choose YouTube. Open or add the page you want to insert the video on.Ģ. shared to your organisation’s Google Workspace domain, unlisted or public).ġ. If you are planning to use your own YouTube videos, make sure that their privacy settings are configured so that the audience of the Google Site can view them (e.g. YouTube videos integrate really well with Google Sites. In this blog post, I’ll show you two ways to insert videos into the new Google Sites. In both cases, videos are a key part of the content being shared via the site. Many of our corporate and government clients use Google Sites to provide technology training resources to their organisation.

In an education context, I’ve seen Sites being used very effectively as ‘digital textbooks’, including by teachings utilising a flipped classroom approach. Google Sites is a great platform for sharing rich content.
