The YouTube Video and Vimeo lecture types

YouTube video and Integrated video / Vimeo are two lecture types in the modular content editor for showing a video inside a lecture: the first points to a video already published on YouTube, and the second hosts the video through the institution’s own Vimeo account, managed automatically by Eduvem - with no extra setup to do.

The YouTube video lecture

A YouTube video embedded in the lecture, pointed at only by its link. Use this when the video already exists on YouTube - for example, it is not yours, or you would rather not spend the institution’s storage.

Adding the lecture

1. In the modular content editor, click Add new lecture to this topic and choose YouTube video, in the Media and integrations section of the type picker.
2. In the YouTube video ID field, paste the video’s link or just its ID (the part after v= in the YouTube address) - Eduvem recognizes the whole link and extracts the ID on its own.
3. Optionally, fill in the Text field, shown below the video on the lecture.

Note

The video must be public or unlisted on YouTube. If it is removed or made private after being published in the lecture, the lecture is left without a video for the participant - the video stays hosted on YouTube, outside Eduvem’s control.

This lecture does not use any of the institution’s storage. It also has no player colour, no thumbnail of its own, and no progress lock: the video plays in YouTube’s own player, and the institution cannot restrict its playback speed (see Playback speed for videos and audio, which applies to the other video types, not this one).

The Integrated video / Vimeo lecture

A video hosted in the institution’s own Vimeo account, managed automatically by Eduvem. This is the recommended option when the video is yours: Vimeo protects the file against download and offers a player colour, its own thumbnail, and control over progress, none of which YouTube offers.

Adding the lecture

1. In the modular content editor, click Add new lecture to this topic and choose Integrated video / Vimeo, in the Media and integrations section of the type picker.
2. Switch between Existing video and New upload:
   • Existing video: paste the link or the ID of a video already in the institution’s Vimeo account - either works, the ID is extracted automatically. If the video is private or unlisted on Vimeo, paste the full link (not just the ID) so the video’s access code is picked up along with it.
   • New upload: send a video file straight from your computer. Conversion and hosting on Vimeo are automatic - while Vimeo processes the uploaded video, the lecture shows a processing notice, and you can keep editing the rest of the content in the meantime. Accepted formats: MP4, MPG, MPEG, MOV, MKV and 3GP, within the editor’s video size limit.
3. Optionally, fill in:
   • Vimeo player colour: colour of the player’s progress bar and controls. Use the institution’s brand colour so the video matches the rest of the content.
   • Vimeo thumbnail: cover image shown before the video starts. Without it, Vimeo picks an arbitrary frame from the video itself, which usually looks poor.
   • Subtitles: subtitle files for the video, one per language - see Subtitles below.
   • Text: shown below the video on the lecture.

Subtitles

The Subtitles section of the lecture editor lists one row for each language the institution uses. In each row, click Send subtitles and choose the file for that language; once it is sent the row shows Uploaded, and the buttons become Replace subtitles (sends a new file in place of the current one) and Remove subtitles (asks for confirmation before deleting). Learners turn subtitles on with the CC button in the Vimeo player.

• The file must be WebVTT (.vtt): a text file that starts with the line WEBVTT, saved as UTF-8, up to 2 MB. An .srt file just renamed to .vtt is refused.
• Subtitles can only be added to videos uploaded through the platform (the institution’s Vimeo account). For a video from outside that account, the section shows a notice and the buttons stay disabled.
• The subtitles belong to the video on Vimeo: they appear everywhere the video is used, including copies of the content, and removing them removes them everywhere. In a version copied from another content, subtitles cannot be changed.
• When you upload subtitles for a language, the automatic captions that Vimeo generates in the same language (“auto-generated”) no longer appear in the CC button, and the learner sees only yours. If you remove your subtitles, the automatic ones appear again.
• If Vimeo is still processing a freshly uploaded video, sending can take a while and fail with a notice: try again in a few minutes.
• A row reading Inactive - upload the file again means Vimeo deactivated those subtitles: send the file again to reactivate them.

Autoplay

• Autoplay: the video starts playing on its own, without sound, as soon as the participant reaches this lecture.
• Try to start with sound: tries to start the video with sound already on. Most browsers (Chrome, Safari) block this for a participant who has never watched a Vimeo video before - in those cases the video does not start on its own, and the participant needs to click play. Leave this unchecked to guarantee the video always starts playing (without sound).

Block progress until the video is fully watched

Checking this option, the NEXT button only unlocks once the participant reaches the end of the video. They can pause and rewind freely, but cannot skip ahead - if they try to drag the progress bar past the point already watched, the player automatically jumps back to where they left off. After watching it once to the end, the lecture stays unlocked on later visits, with no need to watch it again.

Note

There is an equivalent option in the class settings, Bloquear pular vídeo (Vimeo) (“Block skipping video (Vimeo)”), which applies this same lock to every Vimeo lecture in the class at once, without needing to check it lecture by lecture.

Playback speed

As with the platform’s other videos, the institution controls whether the participant can speed up or slow down playback - see Playback speed for videos and audio. While the institution allows the option, the editor shows Do not allow changing the playback speed on this lecture, to remove the control from this lecture only.

Watermark

Both lecture types offer the Enable a watermark with the participant’s details floating over the content option: a text with data about the participant moves continuously across the video, in the chosen colour. It is an additional protection that makes it harder to use screen recording software. The same option exists in uploaded video, Document and Flip book lectures.

When you tick the option, UUID and current date and time come selected; the other details are optional:

• The participant’s unique UUID on the platform.
• The participant’s IP.
• The participant’s CPF, formatted 000.000.000-00: the registered CPF when it is valid; otherwise the username, when it is a CPF.
• The current date and time.
• The participant’s full name.

A detail with no value for that participant (for example, the CPF of someone with no CPF registered) is simply not shown.

Fullscreen with the watermark

With the watermark on, YouTube and Vimeo lectures show a Fullscreen button below the player: it takes the video and the watermark to fullscreen together, and Exit fullscreen (or the Esc key) returns to the lecture. The player’s own fullscreen button stays disabled in these lectures, because it would hide the watermark. The button only appears when the browser supports fullscreen. In uploaded video lectures, the player’s own fullscreen already keeps the watermark.

Caution

On iPhone, the browser does not allow fullscreen with elements over the video: while the watermark is on, videos play inside the page, without fullscreen.

Watermark required by the institution

The institution can require the watermark on every lesson with the Watermark on all lectures? option (see DRM - content protection). In that case video, YouTube, Vimeo, document and flip book lectures show the watermark even when the option is not ticked in the lecture: lectures that already had a watermark keep the details they chose, and the others show the participant’s name and the date and time (never the CPF). The editor preview does not show this requirement.

Turning them on in every lecture at once

In Content Appearance, at the top of the editor’s structure, the Watermark in every lesson of this content block turns the watermark on or off in every video, document and flip book lecture of the content. Before applying, Eduvem asks for confirmation showing how many lectures will change; turning them on replaces those lectures’ current watermark settings.

After that, you can still change a single lecture. The watermark details and colour chosen in Content Appearance carry over to the lectures that have the watermark on, and new lectures start with the content’s setting.

YouTube or Vimeo?

Aspect	YouTube video	Integrated video / Vimeo
Where the video is hosted	On YouTube, outside Eduvem	In the institution’s Vimeo account, managed by Eduvem
How to add it	Link or ID of an already published video	Link/ID of an existing video, or a direct upload in the editor
Institution storage	Not used	Used
Protection against download	Depends on YouTube’s own settings	Vimeo protects the file
Player colour and thumbnail	Not available	Available
Block progress until fully watched	Not available	Available, per lecture or for the whole class
Block playback speed	Not available	Available, if the institution allows the option
If the original video is removed or made private	The lecture is left without a video	Not applicable - the video belongs to the institution

Use YouTube when the video already exists there and is not yours, or when you would rather not spend the institution’s storage. Use Integrated video / Vimeo for your own video, with more control over how it is shown and over the participant’s progress.

See also

• Lecture types
• Modular content
• Content types
• File formats for videos and images