Any Wordpress MU user will tell you that the built in html code sanitizer is very frustrating. The sanitizer effectively removes html code such as javascript, embed code, etc. This type of security was built into Wordpress MU because it is designed to run multiple blogs where you may not know who the owner of the blog is. This is not the case in our scenario because we can trust that teachers and staff are not trying to embed malicious code into their blogs. When you publish a video to D-Tube, it generates html embed code that you can use to display the video on different websites. Once your video is on D-Tube, you can copy this embed code and then paste it into your blog to display the video. I have just figured out how to override the sanitizer script and now we can post D-Tube videos in our teacher blogs from the code generated on the D-Tube video page.

This is significant because now teachers can use both systems together to not only display homework and classroom updates in their blogs, but to also post video from a variety of sources. This is a BIG step forward for our website and communication systems online!

See the video below as proof of concept:

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