Video hosting for schools
Give your school a secure, reliable platform for hosting lessons, events, and student projects. Cinema8 delivers fast playback, branded players, and privacy controls to protect student content. Add captions and transcripts for accessible learning, and track engagement with analytics. Teachers can also enhance lessons with optional interactive features such as quizzes or branching paths to keep students engaged.
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Support teachers, students, and parents with Cinema8’s video hosting platform, designed for schools of all sizes. Upload and organise lessons, announcements, or student projects into a secure, centralised library. Protect content with privacy settings like password protection, unlisted links, or domain restrictions to safeguard student privacy. Use captions, transcripts, and chaptering to make long lessons more accessible. Track watch time and engagement with detailed analytics, and export results in SCORM format for seamless reporting inside your school’s LMS.
How to host school videos with Cinema8’s tools
Upload, protect, and share classroom or school videos with secure hosting, branded players, and detailed engagement analytics.
Upload lessons, announcements, or student projects to Cinema8 in bulk or via API. Organise videos into subjects, classes, or events for simple navigation and easy sharing.
Customise your player with school branding, add captions or transcripts for accessibility, and apply privacy controls to protect student content.
Share secure video links with students, staff, or parents through your school’s platforms, and track engagement using Cinema8’s analytics dashboard, or export results in SCORM format for LMS integration.
Why use Cinema8 for school video hosting?
Cinema8 gives schools a safe, professional way to host and share educational videos. With secure access controls, branded players, and analytics, teachers and administrators can protect student privacy, deliver lessons efficiently, and monitor engagement. Optional interactive features like quizzes or branching add flexibility for classrooms, while SCORM compliance ensures smooth integration with your existing LMS.
How Cinema8 video hosting supports schools
Secure access controls to protect student privacy
Captions and transcripts for accessible learning
Analytics to track class and parent engagement
Host recorded lessons or lectures in a secure, branded player with captions and transcripts. Teachers can even add optional branching to adapt lessons to different learning levels and keep students actively engaged.
Share assemblies, concerts, and school-wide announcements using fast-loading, branded players. Privacy controls such as password protection and unlisted links ensure videos remain accessible only to students, parents, and staff as intended.
Enable students to securely upload and present projects as part of a digital portfolio. Teachers can monitor engagement, while parents gain controlled access to selected content through private links. Additionally, SCORM reporting makes evaluation easy for schools using an LMS.
See why Cinema8 is trusted around the world for secure and accessible video hosting
During travel restrictions, Cinema8 proved valuable as a tool. Its platform offered straightforward yet complete tools, allowing us to give virtual demonstrations of our solutions in a secure and efficient way.
Jay Yalung
Art Director, Marketing and E-Commerce / Leica Geosystems
Cinema8 software engaged and motivated students with 360-degree videos at the Tate Gallery, featuring past student projects. Staff support was responsive and helpful with training. A valuable tool for educational institutions.
Chi-Ming Tan
Unit Lead Lecturer LCCA / London College of Contemporary Arts
Cinema8 has been instrumental in compiling all of the videos for a research project on employment for the blind or visually impaired, by offering an easy-to-use web-based platform for building Interactive Videos.
Sarah Moody
Communications Coordinator / Mississippi State University
Cinema8 was chosen for its ease of use and ability to create interactive videos through an intuitive interface. The team received great support and reasonable pricing. leading to a renewal of their partnership. Cinema8's support helped them meet project deadlines.
Michel Sohel
Media Consultant / Eastern Michigan University
Starter
$12
per month billed annually
Everything in Free, plus:
- Lead gen forms with CRM/email integration
- 360 degree interactive video support
- Unlimited screen recording
- Customisable video player
- 1TB bandwidth
Recommended
Pro
$24
per month billed annually
Everything in Starter, plus:
- Sticky hotspots for moving objects
- AI chaptering + SEO metadata
- AI-powered speech search
- Video heatmaps + advanced reports
- 2TB bandwidth
Pro Plus
$84
per month billed annually
Everything in Pro, plus:
- FTP upload for video libraries
- Webhook-based event notifications
- Domain restriction
- Priority + dedicated support
- Unlimited seats
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Have another question?
Cinema8 includes domain restrictions, password protection, unlisted links, and role-based access controls to ensure only the intended audience can view school content. These features help schools safeguard student privacy while still allowing easy video sharing with classes, staff, or parents.
Captions and transcripts can be added to any hosted video to improve accessibility. This ensures all students, including those with hearing impairments or learning in noisy environments, can follow lessons clearly and review material later at their own pace.
Cinema8 delivers videos via adaptive streaming and a global CDN, ensuring smooth playback on any device, even in bandwidth-limited environments. Schools can rely on consistent performance whether content is accessed in the classroom, at home, or on mobile devices.
Cinema8’s analytics dashboard tracks watch time, completion rates, and engagement points within videos as well as supports SCORM-compliant exports for LMS integrations. Teachers and administrators can use these insights to measure participation, identify knowledge gaps, and improve lesson delivery for better learning outcomes.
Teachers can enrich lessons by adding quizzes, pop-ups, or branching paths to their hosted videos. While hosting remains the core function, interactive options create more engaging learning experiences and help educators assess student comprehension in real time.