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title: Add Videos to Your Assessment
description: "## Host Your Video and Set Privacy Agolix doesn't store video files. You host your video on YouTube or Vimeo, then paste a bit of code into your assessment so the video plays right inside it. *Don't have an account…"
url: "https://agolix.com/user-guide/add-videos-to-your-assessment/"
updated: "2026-09-04"
category: Assessment Setup
---

# Add Videos to Your Assessment

## Host Your Video and Set Privacy

Agolix doesn't store video files. You host your video on YouTube or Vimeo, then paste a bit of code into your assessment so the video plays right inside it.

*Don't have an account yet? Both are free to set up. If you have a Gmail or Google account, you can use it to sign in to YouTube.*

### Choose Your Privacy Setting

Set your privacy before you copy anything. This is the most common reason a video won't play for the people taking your assessment.

**On YouTube**, this is the **Visibility** setting. You'll see it as the last step when you upload. To change it later, go to YouTube Studio, click **Content**, click your video to open its details, and click the **Visibility** card on the right.

Choose **Unlisted** — your video plays in your assessment, but it won't show up in YouTube search or on your channel. **Public** works too, but anyone can find the video. Don't choose **Private** — private videos won't play for your respondents. They'll see "Video unavailable" instead.

![YouTube Studio Visibility panel with Private, Unlisted, and Public options; Unlisted is selected.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/YouTube-Studio-—-Visibility-settings-1004x628.png)
YouTube Studio — Visibility settings

**On Vimeo**, open your video and click **Share**. Privacy is the first thing in the panel that opens. Choose **Unlisted** — anyone with the link can view, which is what your assessment needs. **Public** works too, but your video becomes findable on Vimeo. Don't choose **Private** or **Password** — neither will play for your respondents.

![Vimeo Share panel with the privacy list open: Private, Password, Unlisted, Public, and Embed only; Unlisted is selected.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Vimeo-—-Share-panel-privacy-options-1069x628.png)
Vimeo — Share panel privacy options

*If you see an **Embed only** option, that one's worth considering. Your video plays wherever you embed it but stays private on Vimeo, so it won't turn up if someone browses your account.*

## Get Your Embed Code from YouTube

**Start on your video's public page, not in YouTube Studio.** Studio is where you manage your video, and its share panel only gives you the video link — there's no embed code there. From Studio, click the video link or the thumbnail to open the video on YouTube.

![YouTube Studio video details with the Video link highlighted, which opens the video's public page.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/YouTube-Studio-—-the-Video-link-opens-your-videos-public-page-974x628.png)
YouTube Studio — the Video link opens your video's public page

On your video's page, click the **Share** button underneath the video.

![YouTube video page with the Share button highlighted below the video.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/YouTube-—-the-Share-button-on-your-videos-public-page-1100x514.png)
YouTube — the Share button on your video's public page

A window pops up with sharing options. Click **Embed** — it's the first one in the row.

![YouTube share window with Embed as the first option, alongside Messages, WhatsApp, Facebook, and X.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/YouTube-—-the-Share-window-with-Embed-as-the-first-option-634x628.png)
YouTube — the Share window, with Embed as the first option

A window pops up with sharing options. Click **Embed** — it's the first one in the row. Ignore the **Copy** button next to the link further down; that copies your video's web address, not the embed code.

The **Embed Video** panel opens with your code. Click **Copy** at the bottom right. You want the code that starts with <iframe — not the video's web address. A plain link won't turn into a playable video.

![YouTube Embed Video panel showing the iframe embed code, with the Copy button below it.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/YouTube-—-the-Embed-Video-panel-with-the-code-and-Copy-button-1031x628.png)
YouTube — the Embed Video panel with the code and Copy button

**Scrolling down inside that panel reveals a few optional settings. You can leave them as they are. The one worth a look is* ***Enable privacy-enhanced mode****, which stops YouTube from setting cookies on your respondents unless they actually play the video.**

## Get Your Embed Code from Vimeo

Vimeo keeps everything in one place. You're already in the **Share** panel from the privacy step — no need to go anywhere else. At the bottom of that panel, click the **Embed** button — the `</>` icon next to Add people. Ignore the **Copy link** button above it; that copies your video's web address, not the embed code. (Note that the **Embed** button is different from the "Embed only" privacy setting further up the panel.)

![Vimeo Share panel with the Embed button highlighted at the bottom of the panel.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Vimeo-—-the-Embed-button-in-the-Share-panel-1065x628.png)
Vimeo — the Embed button in the Share panel

The Embed panel opens with a few options. Leave **Size** set to **Responsive** — that's what makes your video fit properly on phones. Then click **Copy embed code**.

![Vimeo Embed panel with Size set to Responsive and the Copy embed code button below.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Vimeo-—-the-Embed-panel-with-size-and-playback-options-1100x426.png)
Vimeo — the Embed panel with size and playback options

*Vimeo's code starts with* *<div* *rather than* *<iframe. That's normal — the iframe sits inside it. Copy the whole thing.*

## Add to Editor Window

Now go to the editor window in Agolix where you want to place your video and click on the **Source** button at the top of the window.

![Agolix assessment instructions editor with the Source button highlighted in the toolbar.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Agolix-—-the-Source-button-in-the-editor-toolbar-1100x430.png)

### Paste Your Embed Code

Paste your embed code (CTRL-V on your PC or Command-V on your Mac).

Your embed code will be displayed. You can edit the width and height of your video here.

If you copied from YouTube, a fixed width like 560 can run off the edge of the screen on a phone. Changing width="560" to width="100%" lets the video shrink to fit whatever device someone's using. Vimeo's responsive code already handles this, so there's nothing to change.

![Agolix editor in Source mode showing pasted YouTube embed code, with the width value highlighted.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Agolix-—-the-pasted-embed-code-in-Source-mode-1100x420.png)

### Adjust and Save Your Settings

Click **Source** again to see your video, center it on the screen if you'd like, and click **Save** to save your changes.

![Agolix editor with the embedded video rendered, and numbered marks on the Source button, the center-align button, and Save.](https://agolix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Agolix-—-the-video-rendered-in-the-editor-ready-to-save-928x628.png)

## If Your Video Isn't Working

 **"Video unavailable" or a blank player** — Check your privacy setting. On YouTube the video needs to be Unlisted or Public, not Private. On Vimeo, check that it isn't password protected.

**A link shows up instead of a video** — You pasted the video's web address rather than the embed code. Go back and use the Embed option: YouTube's code starts with <iframe, Vimeo's with <div.

**Nothing appears after pasting** — You may have pasted outside of Source mode. Click **Source**, paste the code there, then click **Source** again to preview.

**The video is cut off on phones** — On YouTube, change the width in your embed code to 100%. On Vimeo, check that Size was set to Responsive when you copied the code.

**NOTE:** You can add videos anywhere in your assessment that you see the HTML editor shown above – in the header, instructions, and even in the questions themselves!

Please review the rest of the **[Reference Guide](https://agolix.com/user-guide/)** to learn more about our software.

Thank you for choosing **Agolix**!