One of the most common ways to deliver distance learning is to give learners access to pre-recorded videos.

There are a number of ways to do this, and we will walk through all of them here.

We will assume that we want students to view videos on a Cambridge VLE, e.g. vle.cam.ac.uk, which runs on a standard moodle install.

There are three main ways we could give learners access to videos:

1) Uploading a video to Moodle directly

The simplest, but not the best, way to get a video to display in Moodle is to upload the MP4 file of the video directly to the VLE.

2) Uploading a video to Youtube and embedding in the VLE

The easiest way to deal with large numbers of videos on a single site without causing the page to lag is to embed videos as URL links to Youtube.

3) Uploading a video from Panopto

The easiest way to deal with large numbers of videos on a single site without causing the page to lag is to embed videos as URL links to Youtube.

*Ensuring videos display on a course page*

One of the most important things to bear in mind with online content is that it should be easily accessible to the learner