Uploading and sharing your video presentation to YouTube, Google Drive, or OneDrive/SharePoint

Follow these steps to ensure you have the correct video file sharing capabilities enabled! Failure to follow these steps may result in a judge not being able to view your presentation.

YouTube YouTube accounts are free and if a student has an existing Google/Gmail account, they can use their login information to access their YouTube account.

When uploading their video, a student will want to set their video publishing to “UNLISTED”. This privacy feature makes the video viewable to anyone who has the link but is not searchable through search engines or through YouTube.com.

To check if your link can be viewed by anyone, we recommend opening an incognito internet tab and in the URL, paste your link. If you can play the video in the incognito tab, you are good to go!

Google Drive If a student cannot upload to YouTube, we recommend uploading to their Google Drive instead.

1. Log into your Google Drive account. 2. Upload your video. 3. Once the video is uploaded, right click the file and click SHARE. 4. The photo below will pop up. Click the blue text at the bottom “Change to anyone with the link.”

5. In the new pop up box, click the black arrow and in the drop-down menu, select “Anyone with the link.”

6. When the pop up box reloads, ensure your screen looks like this:

7. Your sharing settings should match the two red underlines above. If the sharing settings on the photo above match the settings on your Google Drive, then you can click “Copy link” and use this link to submit for your competition.

8. To check if your link can be viewed by anyone, we recommend opening an incognito internet tab and in the URL, paste your link. If you can play the video in the incognito tab, you are good to go!

OneDrive / SharePoint

If a student cannot upload to YouTube or Google Drive, follow these directions to upload to SharePoint.

1. Go to OneDrive.com and login. 2. Upload your video. 3. Once your video is uploaded, click on 3 vertical dots.

4. Click “Share” 5. Change link settings to “Anyone with the link”

6. Under Other settings, disable “Allow editing”, do not set and expiration date and do not set a password.

7. Click the blue “Apply” button. 8. Click “Copy Link”.

9. To check if your link can be viewed by anyone, we recommend opening an incognito internet tab and in the URL, paste your link. If you can play the video in the incognito tab, you are good to go!