Uploading private playlists/unlisted videos to soundcloud and YouTube and embedding to your blog

Soundcloud is a very useful way for you to present work in progress and get feedback as people can comment on the tracks. If you make a playlist private then only those with the link can see it. You can also embed the playlist into your blog - whenever anyone (teaching staff or exam board) look at your blog, it will automatically show the comments from soundcloud as it is embedded and will update. All in one place. Cunning, no?!

First you need to have a soundcloud account (you can use your existing one as they playlist will be private or create a new college one using your google credentials). Click 'upload' and make sure you have selected 'private'.

You can save time by adding multiple files and ticking the 'make a playlist' box.

Add your tracks and any info such as what it is and what you want feedback on.

Click 'save', go to your playlist and click the share button. Choose 'Embed'. You can even choose your colour scheme at this point if you want to. Copy the code in the box:

In your blog post, select HTML view mode...

Then paste the code (don't panic by what you see!) then change back to 'compose view'. Et voila! You will see a grey box but can check it's working by selecting preview (or publishing the post and going to view blog).

If you would like people from the class to see this playlist, post a link on classroom or email it to me and I will post it. You can also now link to it in the chat in classes.

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YOUTUBE:

You have a college YouTube account from your classroom login already, same as blogger as it's all google. When you create a video in YouTube, make sure it's 'unlisted'. This means it's not public but people with the link can see it. In exactly the same way, when you go to share from YouTube, select 'embed' then paste that code into your blog in HTML view mode as with soundcloud.