Introduction to Video#
Videos in a course supplement active learning components, such as discussions and problems. Videos can be effective for presenting motivating material, showing experiments, reducing cognitive load for complex content, and other purposes.
When you create video content, you need to keep various guidelines in mind. This section describes these guidelines, as well as video technical specifications, how to add video content to your course, and how to specify options for your videos.
For more information about how learners can interact with course videos, see Video Player.
Important
It is very important that all of your videos are accessible to learners with disabilities. Be sure to review Create Accessible Media before you create videos for your course.
Working with Video Components#
You use video components to add videos to your course in Studio. In video components, you add the name and location of your video, as well as the video transcript. Learners view your videos in the LMS.
For information about the way learners interact with videos, see Video Player.
For more information about adding videos to your course, see Add a Video.
For more information about options in the video component, see Specifying Additional Video Options.
Adding a Video to a Course#
To make a video visible in your course, you create a video component in a Unit in Studio, and then you add information for the video to the video component.
Third Party Hosting#
To upload a video to a third party hosting site, follow the instructions for that site. Keep the following guidelines in mind.
If you host your videos on YouTube, you must follow all rules and restrictions that are associated with YouTube.
The URL for the video that you upload on a third party hosting site must end in .mp4, .mpeg, .webm, or .ogg. The video player cannot support videos that you upload on sites such as Vimeo, Dailymotion, or other sites that use their own player.
To help make sure all standard browsers can play your video, edX strongly recommends that you use .mp4 format.
The video URL might resemble the following example.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/edx-course-videos/edx-edx101/EDXSPCPJSP13-G030300.mp4If you have copies of a video in multiple resolutions, you must upload each copy to the hosting site. For more information, see General Guidelines.
After you upload a video on a hosting site, you must make sure you have the URL for that copy of the video. If you upload copies of your video on more than one hosting site, make sure you have the URL for each video location.