After dedicating hours of your time and other resources to creating high quality video content for your course, the last thing you want to deal with is the theft of your intellectual property. In the first part of this blog post series, we explained a few tips on how to protect video content and other online course materials from being copied. In this follow up article, we are going to be discussing some more tips and tricks to help you protect video content in your online courses.
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Password Protection
Password protection provides you with a secure way to protect your WordPress LMS content. By using this feature, you can lock out private course content with a password. Only those with access to the correct password will be able to access your private course content.
In this section, we will show you how you can easily secure your course content using password protection.
Setup Password Protected Single Course
Looking to protect video content? Password protection is the first step towards building up your online course’s security. WordPress has built-in functionality that allows you to set up a password-protected post/course.
To set up password protection please follow these steps:
- Navigate to the single course edit page.
- If using the Gutenberg editor, from the Status and Visibility section in the right sidebar, click the Public link next to Visibility. Select the option Password Protected. Enter the secure password in the text-box below.
- If using the classic editor, from the Publish section in the right sidebar, click the Edit link next to Visibility: Public. Select the option Password Protected. Enter the secure password in the text-box below. Click OK.
- Publish/Update the post/course.
Protect Video Content Using a Membership Plugin:
If you own a WordPress Learning Management System website and want to monetize your course content then you should consider using a Membership Plugin.
The main feature of a membership plugin is to add some or all course content to your WordPress LMS site into a restricted area. In order to view private content users/students will need to sign in into their membership account. Depending on the membership plan, only selected members/students can access the content included in different