So we created an entire course using YouTube as our video host, now the issue is that some organizations ban YouTube from their servers or whatever. There’s always an issue lol.
Does anyone know if you can use OneDrive or anything like that to stream videos from? I haven’t see anyone suggest that, as it seems to mostly be YouTube vs Vimeo vs. SCORM Clouds. If it matters, we are using Captivate to create the course and will convert it to SCORM. We just put the link to an unpublished YT video into the slide. But now we need to create an alternative for those who can’t access YT. So we wanna see if a drive would work. Thanks for clarifying.
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If your platform is just video, you could explore other options like Vimeo if people dont like YouTube/Google.
Onedrive has MS Stream that would work but I’m not a huge fan. It would work though.
Google drive can also stream videos but it’s a lot sloppier than YouTube.
You used to be able to host content directly through Google drive but they killed that several years back.
You can do Google storage apis to host your scorm content there. AWS has a similar service.
I personally like GitHub to host content but wouldn’t do that for a course or professional content.
Does your LMS not have a way to host videos directly? (Or maybe you don’t have an LMS?).
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Thanks @EmmanuelBrown … We create the course for institutions who use their own LMS (usually blackboard). Some educational institutions block YouTube, so now we have a sudden headache on our hands. We have slides in between the videos, but it’ll be packaged as a SCORM file. At least, that’s the idea… OneDrive uploads super slow. Not sure if that’s just an issue I face, but it seems to take longer than Google. With that said, we just need something that’ll stream We can look into MS Stream if that’s a viable solution. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. Thanks again
So the issue is the YouTube video is being blocked within the captivate project within the LMS?
Can you just add the video itself to captivate and avoid that issue altogether for the clients who block YouTube?
Yeah, I’d say either put the video directly in the project or see what media streaming service they use and get the embed link from that service.
We used mediasite as the college official video platform in the community college where I worked for a while. It avoided ads and stuff but it was paid for by the college so we encouraged faculty to use it. You could embed things just like YouTube or any other streaming platform into canvas or storyline as long as the permissions were set up right.
I only say that to say it might be easier to default to YouTube but bring that up to clients and if they don’t like it, ask what the official platform would be.
MS Stream would probably work in this case but I’d make sure to follow whatever the client is using to guarantee the videos will stream properly (or just upload the video into captivate directly).
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That’s a really good idea, thanks! Yes we can embed videos directly into Captivate, but the issue is the files become ridiculously large. I suppose we could divide them into multiple files and offer them that way, if need be. Or, as you say, ask if they have a preference. Great suggestions, thanks 
Have a look at KnowVela.com to see if it could be possible solution for you.
Hey Ann ! you could just sign up for the goskills course builder and host your course there. You can easily upload the youtube videos there. Plus, if you just need to host, it’s free.
I sincerely doubt that you use a full-fledged authoring tool to create only passive videos? Or are you talking about slide videos to be streamed using YouTube? In that case a better solution may be to use Vimeo. Onedrive or another cloud solution may not be a good choice. I use a subdomain on my domain as webserver for the examples I include in my blog posts. Those examples are always interactive, not just passive video but may include video slides.
You also talk about SCORM, which means you are looking for reporting and/or managing learner accounts. In that case you need to use a Learning Management System. Some of them are free but may need some programmning. Moodle has a free version. You cannot use OneDrive or similar cloud-based storage as LMS.
You could get a webhosting contract with some webspace and export your course as html5…