What is TED-Ed?

TED-Ed — TED's youth and education initiative — aims to spark and celebrate the ideas and knowledge-sharing of teachers and students around the world. Everything TED-Ed does supports learning — whether it's producing a growing video library of original animated lessons, providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lesson plans, helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, or celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform serving millions of teachers and students worldwide.

How do I create TED ED Lesson?

Step 1: Create your TED-Ed account. Go to ed.ted.com and click “register” in the right upper corner. We’ll ask you for a little of your information and then you will have a username and password to manage all your activity and lessons. 

Step 2: Choose the video for your lesson. You can customize a TED-Ed Animation, Note that the videos here have not been filtered or vetted by the TED-Ed team, so make sure that you review the contents of any video you're not already familiar with!

Step 3: Create your Lesson. 

3a) Customize one of TED-Ed’s animations. You can also use any of the sample lessons that we provide in our public lesson library with your students. To do this, visit any of our lesson pages that you're interested in, and use the red "Customize This Lesson" button at the bottom right to copy the lesson to your account. Keep any of our pre-populated questions and resources that you like, or feel free to add your own! 

3b) If you are selecting a new video from youtube, put the URL in the bar under “Create a Lesson You’ll be able to add an introduction to the video as well as the Think (multiple choice and open-ended questions), Dig Deeper (additional resources), Discuss sections (guided or open forums)

Step 4: Publish your lesson. After you publish your task, you'll receive a unique URL for your lesson page. Only you have access to this link, which is not listed in the site search on ed.ted.com or indexed by search engines. But anyone you share this link with will be able to access it so you can share it with your class in whatever way works for you.

*If you are adding a new video to the library, when you publish it, you can also choose to make it customizable, which means that others will be able to create their own lessons around the video you have added. 

Step 5: Monitor progress. As students submit work on your lesson page, you'll be able to monitor their progress and view their answers. You can manage the lessons you've created, return to editing your drafts, or access student work at any time by visiting your lesson activity page.