Research tells us that video is an effective medium to provide new information and facilitate learning (Brame, 2015). Using a tool to host course videos is an important step in academic video production - if your students cannot find and play your videos, your effort will be wasted. Choosing a video hosting platform that fits your instructional needs ensures that your videos: play smoothly and reliably on screens big and small are accessible to all students produce video usage analytics that can inform your instructional practice Why not put all my course videos in my Canvas site?  While it is technically possible to upload videos to a Canvas site, it is not recommended for the following reasons:  Canvas is a course management system, not a video streaming service, so it does not have optimized playback. This means that Canvas cannot calibrate playback according to the viewer's screen size and bandwidth.  There is no workflow to get your videos captioned or to collect vid...