Video Embed
A video embed places a video hosted somewhere else, usually YouTube or Vimeo, inside your page, so it plays on your site without living on your server.
In plain English
You paste the video’s URL and WordPress turns it into a player. The file itself never touches your hosting: it streams from YouTube’s servers, which are considerably better at that than yours.
Uploading a video into your own media library instead is possible and almost always a mistake. It fills your disk, it kills your bandwidth, and it plays worse.
Why it matters
For anyone teaching, the video is the content. Getting it onto the page cheaply and reliably is not a detail.
Embedding also keeps the two audiences connected. The same video earns views on the platform and does its work on your site.
How it works
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You paste the URL on its own lineWordPress recognises the address and swaps in the player automatically.
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The player loads in a frameA small window on your page owned by the video platform.
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It streams on demandOnly when someone presses play, and at whatever quality their connection can handle.
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You keep it responsiveThe frame needs to scale with its container, or it will overflow on a phone.
Embeds are heavy on the first load
A page with six embedded videos pulls in six players before anyone watches anything. Use a lazy loading option that shows a thumbnail and only loads the player on click.