Tag: Google Slides

How To Remove Ads From YouTube Videos

Stop letting YouTube ads hijack your lessons! Discover the Google Slides trick every teacher needs for safe, ad-free, distraction-free videos in class.

You’re mid-lesson, about to play the perfect YouTube video when an ad pops up… or worse, a totally off-topic “suggested” video shows at the end.

😬 Awkward.

The good news? There’s a better way and it takes less than 30 seconds.

📚 Why This Matters for Teachers:

Using YouTube in the classroom is powerful but unfiltered YouTube playback can lead to:

  • 🚫 Inappropriate ads or video suggestions
  • 🚸 Distractions that are a one-way ticket to rabbitholes
  • ⏱️ Wasted time waiting for videos to load or skip ads
  • 😭 Losing your students’ attention before the lesson even begins

By embedding YouTube videos directly into Google Slides, you keep students focused, content controlled, and your lesson flowing smoothly. Plus, it looks more professional. No flipping tabs, buffering, or getting the side eye when your administration walks in the room!

✅ How to Embed YouTube Videos in Google Slides (Without Ads):

  1. Open your Google Slides presentation. Go to the slide where you want to add your video.
  2. Click “Insert” in the top menu, then select “Video.”
  3. In the popup, either:
    • Use the YouTube search bar to find your video, or
    • Paste a direct YouTube link into the URL field.
  4. Click “Insert” to add the video to your slide.
  5. Resize and move the video box as needed.
  6. Bonus: Trim the video for class use!
    • Right-click the video
    • Choose Format options
    • Under “Video playback,” set Start and End times

Or you could watch the video below…

🎉 No More Surprises, Just Seamless Video Lessons

When you play a video this way, it stays on the slide, with no ads, no recommended videos, and no YouTube rabbit holes.

Your students stay on task.

Your content stays clean.

And you stay in control.

Quickly Create Google Docs with Google’s New Shortcuts

If you haven’t already seen Google’s new “.new” shortcuts for Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, and Sites, you need to familiarize yourself with them. They are quick, easy to remember, and work on any browser.

Google Docs Shortcuts

With these new shortcuts come new ways to add these to your Bookmarks Bar. Simply add a new bookmark to your Bookmarks Bar (on any browser) and name it (New Doc, New Sheet, Etc.) and add the appropriate URL (doc.new, sheet.new, etc) and save it. Now, whenever you need to create a new document, just click on the appropriate bookmark. Check out the GIF below. This can be done for any of these shortcuts. Enjoy!

New Doc

 

Turn Your Awesome Google Slides into an Interactive Nearpod

We all have a couple hundred Google Slides presos that we’ve borrowed, copied, and stolen over the years right? How about taking those bad boys and creating an interactive Nearpod preso with them? The beauty of this is that there is no need to recreate it, simply upload and transform! Here is a recipe card that goes over the How-To. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Nearpod, I challenge you to peep this and give it the ol’ college try. For those of you who are familiar with this, I challenge you to revisit this and beef up what you are presenting to your students. Beef, that’s making me hungry. Talk to you guys later! Deuces and as always, enjoy!