Why Use Videos on PlusPlus?
Videos are an incredibly effective way to convey complex information and engage your team members in the learning process. With PlusPlus you can link to your own video content, share that highly technical tutorial from YouTube, and make it all discoverable to your org. You can assign videos to team members as a one-off or integrate them into learning paths with PlusPlus tracks.
Here's a quick rundown of why you should consider using videos on PlusPlus:
1. Easy Integration: PlusPlus allows you to link to your own video content or share external videos, including those from YouTube and other supported sources.
2. Versatile Assignment: You can assign videos to team members individually or incorporate them into customized learning paths using PlusPlus tracks.
3. Tracking and Completion: PlusPlus tracks video engagement automatically, marking videos as started or completed based on user interaction. Videos can even be resumed from where they left off if a viewer needs to pause and return later.
4. Personalized Learning: Team members can save videos for later, making it convenient for them to revisit valuable content.
Getting Started
Here are the typical steps for getting started with videos on PlusPlus.
Enable video content for your instance of PlusPlus.
For more, see How to enable self-paced content types.Upload a video to PlusPlus.
In this step, you can also give a video description, add categories and tags to make it discoverable, and more. See How to upload videos to learn more.Assign the video to a team member.
You can assign the video directly to a team member as a one-off or you can add the video to a PlusPlus track.Collect feedback on the video.
See who has watched the video and how viewers rated it or responded to surveys about it. For more, see PlusPlus 101: How to get user feedback.Edit the video details as needed.
See How to upload videos for more on the details you can update.
Supported Embeddable Video Sources
PlusPlus offers effortless integration with a range of popular video sources, seamlessly tracking video completion for certain platforms. However, technical constraints currently prevent this feature from being feasible for others, such as Google Drive & SharePoint.
These supported embeddable video formats ensure a hassle-free viewing experience within the PlusPlus platform.
Popular embeddable video with auto complete support:
YouTube
SoundCloud
Facebook
Vimeo
Twich
Streamable
Wistia
DailyMotion
Mixcloud
Vidyard
HTML5-compatible video streams, including H.264-encoded MP4, VP8/VP9/AV1-encoded WebM, Theora-encoded OGV, MP3 audio, HLS (m3u8) defined HTTP live streaming playlist, and DASH (mpd) defined adaptive media.
At PlusPlus, we recognize that enterprise security measures may present challenges and limitations in fully offering certain features. This includes scenarios where not all video formats support auto-completion tracking.
Formats with no auto complete support:
Google Drive
Microsoft SharePoint
Loom
Panopto
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Expand Your Video Sources
In addition to the supported sources, PlusPlus offers the flexibility to add custom URL video sources from your proprietary platform. This allows you to harness the power of your unique video content within the PlusPlus ecosystem. Learn more about adding custom video sources in our guide.
Please see additional information while editing the video content with How to Embed Videos link:
Embedding Videos in PlusPlus Articles
It's worth mentioning that PlusPlus articles enable you to embed videos directly into your content. While embedded videos cannot be individually tracked for auto-completion or assigned to specific individuals or tracks, they provide an additional avenue for sharing video content within the platform.
Note for videos which we don't have progress data on, the progress column shows "N/A" instead of "0%". There is now a new "Completed On" column which shows the date the item was completed - previously for a video with no interactions you can see it is marked complete but not were unable to see when
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