Certificate in Online Education

We can upload a video into our Moodle course in exactly the same way we would any other file. Moodle will recognise common video formats and your browser will use the most appropriate video player.

Here's how Moodle will indicate to students that it's a video file:


And here's the video playing within Moodle:

You can see this video being played back at: https://courses.oermn.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=16212

Video files, even more so than images and audio, have the potential to be very large files. If you are in an environment where network or internet bandwidth is limited, then you will need to carefully consider how easy it will be for your students to reliably play back any videos you upload. Next we'll look at the different types of video format available, compression and which may be most suitable for you.