Make more passive income by Making Videos into courses Increase Your Passive Income by Turning Videos into Courses

Videos are now a major tool for online instruction with good reason. For course creators, videos allow you to speak directly to students in a more casual way. Lessons with video can provide both a visual and auditory style of learning which can increase engagement.

There's a good chance that you're already engaging learners with videos through your personal YouTube as well as Vimeo channel. So, why not reuse your videos in an online course that will increase the amount of passive income you earn?

For example, if you already use Vimeo to host your video content, then you're able to profit from an additional opportunity to monetize your videos in the form of an online class.

Additionally, create a free course with your existing videos on Vimeo and then use these to advertise your course. The creation of a free course based on your content can help you establish credibility, which makes it easy to sell future courses and products to your audience.

Before we explain how to use Vimeo to make an online course, we'll look at the way Vimeo compares to YouTube.

Vimeo or YouTube?

YouTube has obvious appeal. It's free to get started, and it's already the second (or the third) largest third largest search engine on the Internet. YouTube can be a fantastic way to get videos out quickly, and with an easy uploading procedure.

While YouTube exposes your videos to an enormous audience, this may not be the ideal choice if you want to protect your content for your students. If you're offering paid content, you'll want only your students to be able to view the videos. If they're available for free and open on YouTube, then anyone who has a link can access and also share it with others.

Vimeo has advanced privacy options so you can lock down your content to make sure that only students are granted access to your content. Vimeo provides videos without pre- or mid-roll ads. In contrast to YouTube, Vimeo has 24/7 support to help you troubleshoot or help you navigate their platform.

Vimeo offers a no-cost alternative, but for the creators, you're unlikely to be able to get out of the free tier. It will limit the uploading and storage options and you'll lose out on many of the features that are available on their paid tiers. There's a popular $35/month option that grants you powerful editing tools and additional features like custom branding on videos.

Let's demonstrate how you can take a Vimeo display and transform it into a class.

Turn Your Vimeo Showcase into a Course

The Wizard was created to help save you time embedding videos into your new online course, so you can focus on selling and marketing your course instead. This is how you can get started:

• Create the showcase in Vimeo. You can do this by clicking the "plus" button that is next to showcases on the left side. Then you'll be directed to a page where you'll be able to input the showcase's title, description as well as the level of privacy.
• Include your YouTube videos. Remember to arrange them properly, because this will determine the lesson's order in . It is possible to drag the sequence on your Vimeo showcase before importing.

• Copy the playlist's URL of your Vimeo account and head over to your Courses tab . Select the "create by video playlist" option at the top right hand corner and then paste it into your Vimeo showcase and click to load.
• Once you've done that, you'll be presented with options on the access settings to the course as well as progress of the course. Pick your preferences and take an overview of your brand new course created with Vimeo!

Do you want to see the process live? Watch our video tutorial on how to turn your Vimeo showcase into a course:

Do you want to give it try? Try using the Vimeo display to make an entire class demo and see a brand completely new course take place in minutes.