Integrate VdoCipher Secure Videos in LMS, CMS & eLearning Platforms

At Vdocipher, our endeavor has always been to make it easy for content creators to make money from their online videos. We get regular requests from individual teachers and small e-learning companies to guide them on making e-learning portals to sell online courses. Websites to sell online courses can be built either using coding from scratch using PHP/JS/Java etc or using CMS like WordPress/Moodle or using ready-to-use and integrate e-learning portals like Teachable, Thinkific, Learnworlds, etc. The first allows maximum customization and requires maximum hard work while the other two subsequently reduce your efforts to build the site.

We generally recommend WordPress-based sites as they offer a mid-way between efforts and customizability options. Our integrations with WordPress are also quite good and we have written a few WordPress-related blogs explaining how to use LMS themes + plugins to build good course WordPress sites. One more detailed video blog will be released soon to make it very clear.

But in certain cases, course creators like popular ready-to-use course-selling sites, as it is quick and easy to launch. So, this article is intended for those people and explains our iframe integration with popular ready-to-use e-learning websites. But, let us first discuss the need for DRM-based video security for eLearning.

Need to Integrate a Secure Video Hosting for LMS, CMS & eLearning Platforms

There are many reasons for wanting to manage the rights associated with intellectual property. Authors and artists wish to control what can be done with their creations, scholars wish to ensure that they receive proper attribution, commercial enterprises wish to support business models that involve licenses and fees, and consumers want an environment free of legal worries and unexpected costs. Although rights themselves are not technological – they are defined by laws, beliefs, and practices – technology can be used to transmit, verify, interpret, and enforce rights as they apply to digital content and services. This is called digital rights management, or simply DRM.

In a distributed networked environment, multiple rights associated with multiple objects come into play as content and services are created, distributed, aggregated, disaggregated, stored, found, and used. This is particularly applicable to e-learning, where standards and technologies are being developed specifically to support the sharing and reuse of learning resources, for example via the collaborative and distributed generation of learning objects, the aggregation of smaller objects to create larger objects, and the creation of resource-sharing networks. In addition, managers of significant collections of learning objects (or metadata records of learning objects) are exploring ways to offer searches and other services. For e-learning to function in this type of environment, appropriate models and implementation of DRM are needed.

But when it comes to application, the DRM video protection is still hard to integrate. This is where service providers like VdoCipher come into play with easy embedding for every eLearning platform, LMS, and CMS. So let’s discuss How?

How to Integrate VdoCipher Player in Major eLearning Platforms and LMS

The 6 ready to use, course video selling websites whose integration will be discussed here are –

• Teachable
• Learnworlds
• Thinkific
• Uscreen
• Webanywhere
• TotaraLMS.

Disclaimer – We are not reviewing these businesses, nor do we suggest using any particular of them, nor do we have any partnerships with them. We picked these 6 because either we had experience with our customers asking for them or they were popular. The article is to help our customers who are already looking to sell vides online on these sites. We explain in detailed steps with screenshots, how to have VdoCipher secure video streaming integrated with all these portals.

Overview: The general idea for integrating VdoCipher in these sites is to search for where to embed the iframe option. Which is generally mentioned as these words or icons – ‘html embed, iframe embed , <> , </> ‘ . And iframe is generated from our dashboard for each video with a whitelisting option. The domains provided to you by these sites should be in HTTPS for html5 secure player to work, else it will ask for Flash. So, please ask these companies for a https domain, most of them do provide that.

Details for step by step integration on each particular website is mentioned below, so that it is clear and quick to use. Screen shots for all the steps are included.

1. LearnWorlds

Go to Dashboard> Courses> EMBED URL (Do Not Select Video option)> Iframe. Don’t choose video option while integrating, always choose embed url and use iframe.

2. Teachable

 Go to Course > Curriculum > Add text > Choose < > iframe sign.

Detailed IFrame security settings & Teachable Embed tutorial.

3. Thinkific

Go to Add content > Add Text > </> icon for iframe embed

Detailed IFrame security settings & Thinkific Embed tutorial.

 

4. TotaraLMS

Go to – Create Course  > Add activity or resource> Add Topic > Go to Link icon + URL to external page

 

 

5. Uscreen

Go to – Content > Programs > Content > Embed

 

6. Webanywhere

It is Moodle based web portal specially suited for schools and colleges.. Our moodle plugin with player version 1.4.5 fits in there.

Ask the Webanywhere support team to integrate our Moodle plugin with 1.4.5 version and use short code as documented.

7. CourseCraft

Go to – Landing page >  <> HTML sign > edit

Find more details about VdoCipher’s DRM infrastructure and our integration of Widevine DRM for Hollywood-grade security, which helps us protect your premium content.

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References

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