Embedding video into your course is a great way to share externally hosted video content with your learners without the need to export it and re-upload it to Elucidat. It’s also a useful solution to provide longer video content that may be too large to upload to Elucidat.
In order to get the best experience from the video embed feature, we recommend following these best practice guidelines.
Supported embed methods
We fully support video embedding from
This means Elucidat is designed to work with videos embedded from either of these services. Elucidat is able to register when they have been watched all the way through, which then means they can be factored into page completion and progress locking.
If you are using video embedding, we recommend using either of these services where possible.
Embeds from Vimeo are also able to tell Elucidat when they have been watched all the way through and can also be factored into page completion. However, we do not currently fully support Vimeo embeds.
Unsupported embed methods
Using unsupported video services and formats
We cannot guarantee a consistent experience when using any video services not described in Supported embed methods.
Videos embedded from unsupported services will not work with Elucidat's progress tracking and page locking functionality.
We also do not support embedding of 360 videos.
Using the video container as an iframe
It is also possible to use the video container as an iframe and embed web content. See Using the video container as an iframe to embed videos and web content for guidance on how to do this.
Due to the near limitless range of content that can be embedded into the video container, we cannot guarantee a consistent experience when using the video container as an iframe.