Once you've made a video, you'll need to find a safe place for it to be stored and accessed by your students. While you can upload a video to Canvas, your course site and pages will load more quickly (in most cases) if you store your video on a hosting site. The good news is, you have options!

3CMedia Solutions

The most important resource you should know about is 3CMedia--the 3Cs, that's us! This is the hosting platform for all of the California Community Colleges, which means it is free, accessible, and commercial-free. You can open your free account, upload any video you create, and seamlessly embed the video in your course.

Even better? 3CMedia will caption your video for you. That's right--if you make an instructional video, you can request free captioning from 3CMedia. The captioning is funded by a grant which is renewed yearly, and funds do run out, so you're more likely to strike caption gold if you submit your videos in the first half of the fiscal year (July-December). This service is not immediate and can take days so plan accordingly.

YouTube

YouTube is a great service, and includes a host of free tools that allow you to customize and caption your videos. Be sure you are not publicly posting student work, student names, or other material that is protected by FERPA. In addition, YouTube autocaptions may not be accurate enough to satisfy accessibility guidelines, but they are easy to edit!

Vimeo

You can also host videos on Vimeo (the service used by Canvas), though there is a yearly subscription fee. The benefit is a commercial-free platform that will allow you to easily embed your videos into Canvas.