◇ Open building blocks
What you can legally build on.
Creative-Commons teaching & learning resources you can embed, link, harvest or adapt — each with its exact licence and what it permits — plus a video-embed code generator that runs entirely in your browser.
Licences verified June 2026 against primary sources, with adversarial fact-checking. Always re-confirm before a public launch — licences and counts drift.
The one rule that governs everything: a platform's or repository's licence does not cover third-party or embedded media inside it. Embedding and deep-linking are always safe; redistributing or adapting needs a per-item licence check — screen each item for an "all rights reserved" or "unless otherwise noted" notice first.
Resources you can build on
Verified open sources, most-open first. ● reusable · ● non-commercial only · ● embed/link only.
Embed a video — correctly
Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link. This builds the responsive embed code in your browser (no data leaves this page) and reminds you of the licence + attribution rules.
Before you reuse — the checklist
① Confirm the licence on the item itself
Not the homepage badge — the specific page/video/title. Uploaders mislabel; aggregators carve out third-party media.
② Embed/link beats re-hosting
Embedding is the lowest-risk path and keeps attribution intact. Re-host only what you've licence-checked.
③ Carry ShareAlike + attribution
Any adaptation of a -SA source (LTR, MIT OCW, Bates, the CAUT MOOC) must keep the same licence and attribute the source.
🪶 Screen for First Nations content
Indigenous teaching material is custodian-led — do not auto-integrate, even from a CC-BY-SA corpus. Seek Indigenous governance first (NLA ICIP Protocol).