How videos work in Continu for learners — playback controls, captions, speed, and what gets tracked for completion.
Continu supports several video sources: native uploads, Vimeo embeds, YouTube embeds, and other supported platforms. Playback controls are consistent across all of them, with some platform-specific exceptions. Watching a video to completion is what marks it as complete on your Dashboard — partial views don't count.
Playback Controls
Play / pause. Click the play button or press the spacebar when the player is focused.
Volume. Slider in the player. Press the M key to mute.
Fullscreen. Fullscreen button in the player or press F.
Playback speed. Most videos support 0.5x to 2x playback. The control is in the player settings menu (gear icon).
Captions. If captions are available, the CC button toggles them on. Captions are author-provided — not every video has them.
What Counts as Watching
Continu tracks how much of the video you've actually watched, not just whether the player reached the end. Skipping ahead with the scrubber doesn't count those skipped seconds as watched.
Most Continu admins configure videos to require 90-100% watched for completion. If you scrub past sections, the video won't mark as complete and you'll need to go back and watch what you skipped.
Resuming Where You Left Off
If you close a video partway through, Continu remembers your position. When you open the same video again, you'll see a Resume option to pick up where you left off — or you can restart from the beginning.
Common Questions
The video won't play. Most often a browser issue. Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, try a different browser or incognito mode. See Continu System Requirements for supported browsers.
The video is stuck buffering. Usually a network issue. Pause for a few seconds to let it buffer, then resume. If it's persistent, lower the video quality (gear icon → Quality).
No sound. Check the player's volume and mute state, then your computer's volume. Some embedded videos (YouTube, Vimeo) start muted by default — unmute in the player.
I watched the whole video but it didn't mark complete. The author may have set a 100% threshold and you scrubbed past a few seconds. Replay the missed portion. If you didn't scrub, refresh the page — completion may not have synced yet.
See Also
- Add Video Content In Continu — for content creators, how videos are set up.
- Continu System Requirements — browser requirements for video playback.
Standard player controls. Captions if the author added them. Watching to the threshold counts as complete; skipping doesn't. Resume picks up where you left off.