Teacher Guide

Adding Video Files to a Training Course

Add any video to your training course without limits for your students. Video is one of the most popular and effective teaching methods for any teacher.

Adding Video Files to a Training Course

Preparing to Add a Video Fragment

To start entering a new video fragment, you first need to enter course editing mode.

Opening course editing mode
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Lesson panel and lesson content tools
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To enter lesson content mode, select a lesson and click the button on the LESSON PANEL. After that, the ADD LESSON DATA panel will open. This is where you add new materials and edit learning materials that were already added earlier.

Click the drop-down menu and choose the learning material type, in this case VIDEO.

Choosing VIDEO in the material type menu
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Filling in the Video Data

In the drop-down menu, choose VIDEO and fill in the video fragment details.

Video material form inside the lesson
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  • To the left of the material type, enter its order number inside your lesson.
  • SHORT NAME - the short name of the video.
  • Subtitle name - the extended name of the video.
  • Description - a detailed explanation of the video content.
  • Link to video file - a link to the video file on the server, for example YouTube or Vimeo.
  • Min of video - the video length in minutes.

After you finish entering the data, click SAVE to save it.

Immediately after saving, the material receives a number and appears in the list on the left.

Editing Saved Material

Saved video material in the lesson list
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After saving, you can edit your learning material. Click the list on the left and the EDIT CONTENT panel will open, where you can change the learning material data.

Note 1: if you want to change the type of learning material, first delete the existing material and then create a new one.

Note 2: you can change the order of materials in the list by using the field to the left of the material type, for example where the number 6 is shown.

Checking the Video in the Course

Editing panel for video material
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Now let us check how the video material appears inside the course. To do this, open the second lesson of the course and click the video panel.

The image shows the opened video panel with the video fragment.

Video playback panel inside the course
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