First you need to upload video file to YouTube.

In order to upload video content to YouTube, you will have to sign in with either a YouTube or Google account. There is an “upload” button at the top right of the YouTube homepage (you can sign in from there too, or create an account). If you sign in with a Google account, you will then be instructed to created a YouTube account (or link your existing YouTube account – if you already have one – to your Google account). Once signed in, you can upload video by clicking “upload” and searching for files on you computer.

Once your video is uploaded to YouTube, you can simply copy the URL and paste it into a post/page you are creating on the ePortfolio.  The video will then play directly in the post and will hardly take up any server space on the blog.  Yup, it’s that simple!

Things to note:

It is preferable for you to embed your videos (rather than providing a link stating something like, “click here” for my video) so that they can be played directly in the post itself.  Linking to YouTube just adds an extra step for your viewers.  Remember that you can go back and edit your older post (in case you have linked there) and embed the vido just by copying/pasting the URL into the post.

If for some reason after you copy/paste the URL into the post you have having trouble getting your embedded video to display (ex: if you provided the link from YouTube but for some reason the video doesn’t appear within the post), try editing the post, switching to the HTML view (the tab on the top right of the post box) and then update the post.  This should fix the problem.