ViewPure will clear that ads, recommended videos, comments, etc. off of the video. It will also allow you to create a custom URL (explained later in the post) so you can easily tell students where to go. With a custom URL you can even set a video to only play a certain segment of the video. When you, or your students, go to the custom URL, it will start and end where you specify - every time.
To set this up, browse to www.viewpure.com. Once you get there, you can get your cleaned up YouTube video two different ways.
1. Copy the URL from the YouTube video that you want to show and paste it into the white box on the page and click the dark blue "Purify" button. You will then see your purified video.
2. Go to this page and drag the red "Purify" button into your bookmark bar (for Chrome users). If your bookmark bar is not showing, press ctrl-shift-B (⌘-shift-B for Mac) to make it appear. Now, anytime you are watching a YouTube video that you'd like to have purified, you can simply press the Purify button in your bookmark bar and it will purify the video.
You can keep the URL for the purified video to use again, send to a colleague, or post for your students so that when they click on the link it will show them a purified video and not take them to YouTube. Just copy and paste the URL in the address bar after it purifies your video.
To make a custom URL, you'll want to browse to www.viewpure.com and paste the YouTube URL into the white box and then click on the little gear icon.
This will allow you to enter your desired URL. Your URL must be alphanumeric (numbers and/or letters) with no special characters. It cannot be exactly 11 characters and it must be available, meaning someone else hasn't already chosen to use that exact URL with ViewPure.
You have the option of making a password for your video - this is nice if you want to post something you made and put on YouTube on a public website, but don't really want anyone but your students to be able to access it.
This is also where you can set the start and end time. You must choose a custom URL in order to set the start and end time.
When you are done with your settings, click the blue purify button and you will be all set. You can give that custom URL to your students and if you wanted it to have a password or a certain start/end time, it will do just that.
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