A couple of weeks ago when I got the notice that my school would be closing I made a video about how to use EDpuzzle to create video-based lessons without having to create your own recordings. I first shared it with my colleagues and then included it in my Practical Ed Tech newsletter. One thing that I didn’t mention in the video because I forgot about it, was the existence of an EDpuzzle Chrome extension.

EDpuzzle’s Chrome extension lets you quickly jump from watching a video on YouTube to creating and editing a lesson in your EDpuzzle account. It even works if you use a different Google account for Chrome than you do for Google Classroom or EDpuzzle. With the EDpuzzle Chrome extension installed you will see a little “edit with edpuzzle” button appear next to the title of any video that you watch on YouTube. As soon as you click that button you’ll be taken into the lesson editor in your EDpuzzle account. It’s not a game-changing feature, but it is a convenient one. Watch my short video below for a demonstration of how the EDpuzzle Chrome extension works.

And here’s my complete overview of how to use EDpuzzle.