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Videos are now a major instrument for online training, and with good reason. For course creators, videos allow you to speak directly to your learners in a casual manner. For learners, video lessons provide both a visual and the auditory method of learning, which could increase their participation.

It is likely that you are already engaging learners with videos via your personal YouTube or Vimeo channel. Therefore, why not put your video content into the form of a paid class to boost your income from passive sources?

In this case, if, for example, you're already using Vimeo for hosting your video content, then you're able to profit from an additional possibility to monetize your videos through the conversion of them into an online learning course.

Create an online course for free using your existing videos uploaded to Vimeo and then use the videos to market your course. The creation of a free course based on the content you already have helps build credibility and makes it easy to sell your future courses or products to your customers.

In the meantime, before we demonstrate how you can 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 third) largest search engine available on the Internet. YouTube can be a fantastic option to upload videos quickly, and with an easy uploading.

Even though YouTube lets you share your videos with an enormous audience, this may not be the ideal choice if you want to protect your course content. If you're offering paid content, you'll want only 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 share the content with other users.

Vimeo offers advanced privacy features which allows you to lock the videos you upload to ensure only students are granted access to your videos. Vimeo provides videos without advertising in mid- or post-rolls. Also, unlike YouTube, Vimeo has 24/7 support to help you troubleshoot or guide you through their platform.

Vimeo offers a no-cost choice, however for the creators, you're unlikely to be able get out of the free tier. It will limit upload and storage options, and you'll lose out on every other feature of their paid tiers. There's a popular $35/month option that unlocks powerful creation tools and other features, including personalized branding on video.

With that said, let's teach you how to use an Vimeo display and transform it into a course.

Turn Your Vimeo Showcase into a Course

The Wizard was created to help save your time when embedding video into your new online course, and allow you to concentrate on selling and marketing your course instead. How to start:

• Create the showcase in Vimeo. You can do this by clicking"plus" or the "plus" button that is next to showcases in the left panel. Then you'll be directed to a page where you'll be able to input the title of the showcase, its description and the privacy level.
• Add your videos. Make sure to place them in proper order, because this will determine the sequence of lessons you will be teaching within . You can drag around the sequence within your Vimeo show before uploading.

• Copy the playlist's URL from your Vimeo account, then go to your Courses tab in . Then click on the "create using the video playlist" link in the upper left corner, then copy and paste into your Vimeo showcase and hit to load.
• Once you've done that, you'll be presented with the options for the settings for access to your course and the course's progression. Pick your preferences and take the time to look over your own course that you created using Vimeo!

Want to see it done live? Watch our video tutorial on how to turn your Vimeo showcase into a course:

Are you ready to give it a attempt? Try using the Vimeo showcase to create an entire course the demo and see a brand new course come together in minutes.