A: Hi there,

The Self-Hosted Video option is LIVE :)

Please see here for the release description.

LMS / Hosted Video + % Watched

Enhance your Learning Management System (LMS) and other video content with SuiteDash’s Hosted Video Service Subscription. Designed to seamlessly integrate with your existing SuiteDash tools, this new feature brings native video hosting and participant tracking directly into your platform. With this Service, you can offer a more engaging and controlled learning experience for your Prospects, Clients, and Staff.

Affordable Hosted Video Service: Our Hosted Video Service operates on a “No Profit” pricing model, making it a highly affordable option for businesses of all sizes. You can upload and stream your videos directly within SuiteDash, ensuring smooth integration across LMS Lessons, Dashboards, Landing Pages, Announcements, and more! This feature allows you to centralize your video content, making it accessible and convenient for your users.

Distraction-Free Video Player: The native video player in SuiteDash provides a professional, distraction-free viewing experience. Unlike third-party platforms, our video player is free from disruptive overlays, third-party ads or “next video” suggestions, keeping your audience fully engaged with your content. This ensures that your message is delivered clearly and without interruption.

Enforce Video Completion: And, exclusive to the Hosted Video Service, you can enforce participant engagement by requiring them to watch a set percentage of your videos before they can advance to the next lesson. This feature is natively integrated in LMS Lessons, where ensuring the thorough understanding of critical content is essential. By enforcing video completion, you guarantee that participants absorb the necessary information before moving forward.

👍 Cost-Effective Solution: Benefit from an affordable, no-profit pricing model that makes video hosting accessible for businesses of all sizes.

👍 Professional Experience: Deliver a clean, focused video experience without the distractions of third-party overlays, keeping your audience fully engaged.

👍 Enhanced Learning: Ensure participants fully engage with your LMS content by enforcing video completion, improving the overall effectiveness of your courses.

TL;DR: The Hosted Video Service Subscription offers native video hosting with affordable pricing, a distraction-free player, and enforced video completion to enhance your LMS and ensure participant engagement.

Available to be added to ANY SuiteDash account!

DOCS: https://help.suitedash.com/article/585-service-subscriptions, https://help.suitedash.com/article/455-block-editor-block-types

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RE: Videos in LMS, you can embed YouTube or any other videos from other services like Vimeo or Wistia. YouTube is FREE to use because they support the service with advertising BUT, as you know, something like Vimeo or Wistia is not free (you have to pay them, not us), and this is because hosting and streaming video has a definite ongoing (not one-time) cost, and that again is why we can't offer you that for free in an ongoing way.

So, there is an OPTIONAL Hosted Video Service that we offer for an additional fee, but it has distinct functionality advantages over free and even other paid options.

The advantage is that our Hosted Video service gives you the ability to enforce participant engagement by requiring them to watch a set percentage of your videos before they can advance to the next lesson. This feature is natively integrated in LMS Lessons, where ensuring the thorough understanding of critical content is essential. By enforcing video completion, you guarantee that participants absorb the necessary information before moving forward.

And like all other Service Subscriptions, we provide has variable costs based on usage, our policy is to pass those costs directly to you without any markup – we don’t profit on these Services. This aligns with our goal of keeping SuiteDash affordable for small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. If you don’t need the Service, you don’t pay for it. If you do, you pay a reduced cost that is as close as possible to “wholesale pricing” which ultimately saves you money. This is better than the alternative approach, in which we’d have to increase pricing of our Plans for everyone to cover our costs, meaning you’d pay the same whether you used the service or not.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,

Mike