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Videos are now a major method of online education for reasons that are well-founded. For course creators, videos enable you to talk directly to students in a casual manner. Video lessons for learners can provide both a visual and auditorial style of learning that could increase their engagement.

You may already be engaging learners with videos via your personal YouTube and Vimeo channel. So, why not use your existing videos for a paid course to increase your income from passive sources?

If, for instance, you're already using Vimeo for hosting the content of your videos, you'll have an opportunity to monetize your videos in the form of an online course.

Also, you can create an online course for free using the videos you already have that you have uploaded on Vimeo and make use of the videos to market your course. The creation of a free course based on the content you already have helps gain credibility, making it easier to market the future course and product to your customers.

Before we explain how to use Vimeo to build courses, let's look at the way Vimeo is different from YouTube.

Vimeo or YouTube?

YouTube offers a wide range of benefits. It's free to get started, and it's already the second (or the third) the largest third largest search engine on the Internet. YouTube can be a fantastic method to share videos easily, with a simple uploading procedure.

Even though YouTube allows your content to an extensive audience, it might not be ideal if you want to protect your content for your students. If you're providing paid content it is best to limit access to your students to access these videos. If they're available for free and open on YouTube, then anyone who has a link can access and also share it with others.

Vimeo offers advanced privacy features so you can lock down your content to make sure that only students are granted access to the content. Vimeo provides videos without advertisements in the middle or pre-roll. In contrast to YouTube, Vimeo has 24/7 support to help you troubleshoot or assist in navigating their site.

Vimeo has a free option, but for course users, it's not going be able to make it out of the free tier. There are limitations on storage and upload options but you'll miss out on all the additional features of the paid-tier. There's a popular $35/month option which unlocks powerful tools for creating and additional features like personalized branding on video.

In this regard, let's demonstrate how you can take a Vimeo showcase and turn it into a class.

Turn Your Vimeo Showcase into a Course

The Wizard was created to help save the time of embedding videos in your new online course, and allow you to concentrate on marketing and selling your course instead. How to start:

• You can create the showcase using Vimeo. It's as easy as pressing the "plus" button beside showcases at the bottom of the left-hand panel. It will take you to a page on which you can input the title of the showcase, its description as well as the level of privacy.
• Add your videos. Remember to arrange the videos in a proper order as this will be the order of your lessons in . You can drag around the arrangement within your Vimeo showcase before importing.

• Copy the playlist's link to your Vimeo account, then go into your Courses tab . Select the "create from the video playlist" option at the top right hand corner and then paste it into your Vimeo showcase and hit to load.
• You'll then be presented with the options for the settings for access to your course and the course's progression. Select your options and then take a a look at your new course created with Vimeo!

Want to see it done on the spot? Here's our video walkthrough of how to turn your Vimeo showcase into a course:

Do you want to give it go? You can try the Vimeo showcase to create an entire course the demo as well as watch the fresh course develop in minutes.