Shorten URLs to Place on Worksheets and within Workbooks
When handing out pieces of work with any sort links to external videos and/or websites, long links can be an issue. If these long links are printed, its obviously very time consuming to type some addresses out and easy to make mistakes. Link shorteners turn the potentially huge links, into smaller easy-to-use links. There are a few examples of sites that do this for you but I'm only going to show one. My go-to is bitly.com for its ease and the fact that it has a free version.
If I wanted to assign a piece of homework for pupils to watch a video then answer some questions on that video, then I should supply them with a link. For the purposes of this post, I'm going to link a video about generating electricity. The standard link is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Vb6hlLQSg&t=31s. As you can see it would be a nightmare for students to type out. If we go to our link shortener and copy our original link in:
After pressing shorten, a new shortened version of the link is given which works exactly the same as the original one.
Now you have a better link (https://bit.ly/2RnBDxJ) to hand out on any physical worksheets.
Go ahead and try it for yourself!
Another thing to add is that you can create an account where it stores all your shortened links and it will supply you with statistics of how many people have been using the link.
I hope this helps somewhat!
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