Google YouTube Creator Playbook Guide Education - Manual (Page 26)

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Curricula on YouTube
Annotations
Annotations can be extremely useful to build an
interactive, curriculum experience for your viewers and to
help them navigate to the previous and next videos in the
lesson, especially in the absence of in-video messaging.
• Use annotations to link to the previous video, as well
as the next video in the series.
• Create an interactive lesson for your viewers by
annotating to specific timecodes of video so that users
can jump to a particular section.
• Use the ‘pause’ annotation to build in pauses to your
videos when you want the viewer to take time to do
self-work or when you’ve posed a question in the
video.
Metadata
Your metadata (and description in particular) is a great way
to communicate and outline your curriculum for the
viewer. It will help your audience find the right videos as
they search within your channel or within the YouTube EDU
site. Check out ‘Video Optimization’ for more information.
Videos made for a specific syllabus should include the
relevant numerical notation for the syllabus to help
teachers find the appropriate videos for their lesson plans.
Annotations for Curriculum Navigation
• /crashcourse uses annotations at the end of the
videos to direct viewers to the rest of the
curriculum.
• /crashcourse’s video titles (below) lead with
descriptive keywords and provide curriculum
context at the end. These video titles are shown
in the course playlist.