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Can you just link to the LOs in situ, rather than exporting them, and then importing them into BB? Unless you have a good reason (SCORM tracking?) there are many advantages to linking, rather than exporting,

Julian

Note though, that Julian's suggestion wouldn't 'solve' this particular issue.

I've been told that we have to export them and deliver via BB. Not really sure why.

Thanks John
Does this mean that any LOs delivered via Blackboard will have this issue (unless we remove the http: part from URLs), regardless of how the xerte install is set up?

The 'YouTube Feed' pages don't have a URL to edit, just a search term. Is there any way to deal with this if delivering LOs on Blackboard?

Oli

There's several reasons why some institutions want this, usually either the server doesn't have the capacity to serve the content to many students or it just isn't external facing. Sometimes it's a security concern too...

Let us know how you get on with the Chrome console though, we're always interested in what causes these issues. Even though it's often outwith our immediate control we can advise others of possible solutions to try.

John

Hi,

Hmm, the YoutubeRSS page might cause you an issue as i'm not 100% sure that you can use the schemeless URL with that service and it's hard to test in a browser without a secure server install...

You might want to do a test:

Find the file at /modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/models_html5/youtuberss.html
(you can view the source of the file here github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlineto...tml5/youtuberss.html)

Backup this file in your install in case anything goes wrong!!

Edit the file and at line 34 you have a URL, http:// gdata.youtube.com /feeds/api/videos which is the URL of the service. Change this line to read:

youtubeURL = "//gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos";

Save the file and then export your LO and import to Blackboard again. If it doesn't work then repeat but change the line to read:

youtubeURL = "https://*****gdata.youtube.com*****/feeds/api/videos"; PLEASE REMOVE ALL THE ASTERISKS WHICH ARE THERE TO STOP THE FORUM AUTO-HYPERLINKING!!

This should solve your problems but will probably cause issues if you run the LO in any way other than Blackboard since you will most likely be mixing http/https content again...

John