{"id":7946,"date":"2020-09-16T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:52:00","slug":"incorporating-videos-into-your-online-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/2020\/09\/16\/incorporating-videos-into-your-online-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Incorporating Videos into Your Online Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now more than ever, we should consider adding videos to our courses. Aside from students wanting to feel a connection to an instructor from a remote or online environment, videos are a powerful tool to present information and engage students. Many instructors are teaching remotely this Fall 2020 semester and may be new to creating videos to post on their course site.<\/p>\n


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Jennifer Shloming<\/a>, Guest Author, Fashion Institute of Technology<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Others may have been teaching online but are looking to see what free tools are currently available to add videos to their course. This blog post focuses on adding quick videos, which are ideal for a welcome, a reminder, explaining where items are in the course, extra help with an assignment, response to a student question, and more!<\/p>\n

“… videos are a powerful tool to present information and engage students.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The type of video preferred may depend on both the subject matter and instructor mood. Most of the time I am happy to show both my screen and my face, but not always. I will give you options for whether you want just to share your screen, just your face, or both (my preferred option). There will also be a fourth option that involves creating a quick video with none of the above. Hopefully you will find at least one method that works for you and your course!<\/p>\n

Loom<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up is my favorite, Loom<\/a>. You can use Loom to share your screen, just your face, or both. I have the Loom extension for my browser so to begin recording I don\u2019t even have to leave my current screen. It is the quickest and easiest way for me to make a video. You can hear why I love Loom and how I use it in this video<\/span><\/a>. It is so easy to share and embed these videos! After your video is ready (doesn\u2019t take long at all), you click on the right-most circular icon that depicts an arrow going to the right. From there, you can choose what best suits your needs. You can select Copy Link, Linked Gif, Embed, Twitter, Facebook, or Gmail. You can also download the video and then upload and share in other ways. The first circular button that depicts an arrow going down to a straight line will be the download video button. For all the buttons, when you hover over one it will let you know what each button does. Super user-friendly!<\/p>\n