--- title: How do we select our content for Boclips? description: How exactly do we make sure that content on Boclips is vetted for educational use? Take a look at the criteria we use and how we select videos. image: https://www.boclips.com/hubfs/NEW%20B2T%20Onboarding%20Email%20%233-1.png --- - Our approach - [Products](https://www.boclips.com/products) - Solutions - Company - Resources - [Login](https://app.boclips.com/) - - [Arabic](https://www.boclips.com/ar/) - [English](https://www.boclips.com) - [Start a Free Trial](https://www.boclips.com/contact) ### © Boclips 2025 ## World-class educational video content, curated by educators.  [Content Curation The best content in the world, curated by teachers We find the best educational content from the best creators around the globe, and compile it into collections and packages tailored to your needs.](https://www.boclips.com/content-curation?hsLang=en) [Content Alignment Standards- and curriculum-aligned Everything we publish meets educational standards and aligns with Bloom’s Taxonomy to help support your learning objectives.](https://www.boclips.com/content-alignment?hsLang=en) [Content Organization Easy-to-find, relevant, localised All our content is tagged by age level, subject area, pedagogical application, and more so that it’s easy to find relevant content that engages your audience.](https://www.boclips.com/content-organization?hsLang=en) [Integration & Delivery Distraction-free experiences Integrate with our libraries for instant access, display content without ads or distractions, and get deep insights on content engagement.](https://www.boclips.com/api-and-lti-integrations?hsLang=en) [Licensing & Rights Fully licensed and rights-cleared We secure and manage the rights to all our content, so you can go ahead and use it without worrying about licensing.](https://www.boclips.com/licensing-rights?hsLang=en) ## We believe that every student should be captivated by their learning. [![Boclips Classroom](https://www.boclips.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Untitled%20design%20(2)-3.png?width=390&height=223&name=Untitled%20design%20(2)-3.png) Boclips Classroom Share Ed-Ready, curriculum-aligned videos directly with students through LMS, Google Classroom, and links.](https://www.boclips.com/classroom?hsLang=en) [![Boclips Library](https://www.boclips.com/hs-fs/hubfs/library%20nav@3x.png?width=400&height=229&name=library%20nav@3x.png) Boclips Library Boclips Library helps education providers access the best video content in the world, hassle-free.](https://www.boclips.com/library?hsLang=en) [![Boclips Integrate](https://www.boclips.com/hs-fs/hubfs/integrate%20nav@3x.png?width=400&height=229&name=integrate%20nav@3x.png) Boclips Integrate Enrich your platform with eye-opening educational experiences.](https://www.boclips.com/integrate?hsLang=en) [![Boclips highlights](https://www.boclips.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Copy%20of%20Untitled%20Design%20(1).png?width=1152&height=660&name=Copy%20of%20Untitled%20Design%20(1).png) AI Video Highlights Chat with our bot to see how AI recommended video highlights can enhance your AI tutors and edtech applications.](https://www.boclips.com/highlights?hsLang=en) ## Access the world's largest library of Ed-Ready video — how you need it, when you need it. [Publishers and Curriculum Developers Built for curriculum and instructional design teams, Boclips Library makes it easy to discover, license, and deliver the world’s best educational videos from premier brands in your courseware or digital learning materials, all from a single source.](https://www.boclips.com/library?hsLang=en) [EdTechs and Developers Built for EdTechs and Innovators, Boclips Integrate strengthens your value proposition and enriches your platform with access to 2.2 million Ed-Ready videos from 650+ of the world’s best educational content creators. ](https://www.boclips.com/integrate?hsLang=en) [Teachers, Schools and Districts Built for teachers to use in the classroom, Boclips provides a safe YouTube alternative that brings the power of educational video directly to your learners with teacher-friendly educational filters, curriculum alignments, and distraction-free sharing. ](https://www.boclips.com/teachers?hsLang=en) [AI for Education Enhance AI Tutors and AI-powered applications with safe, curated educational videos. Chat with our bot and see how AI-recommended video highlights can surface the right moment of the video to safeguard your AI Tutor against hallucination, make your edtech application multimodal, or create efficiencies for educators with AI video recommendations.](https://www.boclips.com/highlights?hsLang=en) ## We believe that every student can be captivated by their learning. ## We find and curate the world’s best educational audio and video content, and make it accessible simply, seamlessly and safely. [About us Learn more about our mission, our story and what we do.](https://www.boclips.com/about-us?hsLang=en) [Blog Browse opinions, toolkits and news from the Boclips team.](https://www.boclips.com/blog) [Working at Boclips Find out what it’s like to work with us, and see open positions.](https://www.boclips.com?hsLang=en) [Press & events We’ve been making headlines since 2014. Explore events and the news archive.](https://www.boclips.com/press?hsLang=en) [Blog Browse opinions, toolkits and news from the Boclips team.](https://www.boclips.com/blog) [Resources Discover upcoming and past webinars, video learning guides, and more.](https://www.boclips.com/resources?hsLang=en) [Collections Preview a curated selection of videos from our world-class library.](https://www.boclips.com/curated-collections?hsLang=en) September 11, 2019 # How do we select our content for Boclips? [#Video Content Partners](https://www.boclips.com/blog/tag/video-content-partners) ![NEW B2T Onboarding Email #3-1](https://www.boclips.com/hs-fs/hubfs/NEW%20B2T%20Onboarding%20Email%20%233-1.png?width=352&name=NEW%20B2T%20Onboarding%20Email%20%233-1.png) As an ex-teacher, it’s really important to me that videos work well for all the students in my class, if and when I’m going to use them. Learning time is precious, and it’s often hard to work out what does and doesn’t help a student to engage with a topic and make progress. Videos can be a great source of inspiration and a good way to visually convey difficult and dense information. That’s why at Boclips we apply some rigorous editorial standards to our video selection. So here is an overview of what we look for in the videos we acquire: - **Engaging** As much as possible we want our videos to grab attention, make learning fun, and show students what happens when academic concepts get applied to real-world scenarios. Explosions, space travel, rare archive footage, and fantastic animations — we want it all. We often ask our users and third party educators to review our content to make sure we are selecting videos suitable for the classroom. - **Cohesive** The videos have to make sense. It sounds obvious, but it’s important not to forget it! A video shouldn’t just make sense to a teacher who’s taught that topic four years in a row; it has to make sense to all of their students and their varying needs. There’s no point in having a video without sound if a student struggles with subtitles; there’s no point in using a video that has false facts or fake images. We apply the same standards to our videos as our users do to their learning resources, textbooks, and lesson planning. - **Informative** There are lots of different kinds of learning in the classroom; remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing and synthesizing are all important parts of a student's journey through a topic. We believe it’s important that we have videos that cover as many of these stages as possible—from that first inspirational ‘WOW’ as the rocket launches on-screen, to the in-depth understanding that comes from hearing an astronaut speak about their experiences, to learning how to make a rocket yourself from cardboard and tape. - **Shareable** At Boclips we want our users to talk about all the great stuff that they find on our website. If we think that our videos are good enough for a teacher to play to their class, for a publisher to include it in learning resources, and for a user to share a collection with their colleagues and community, then we’ve done our job well. Truly great video learning is something we know teachers come back to time and again. <> That’s not all, though! We like to make sure we’re keeping to our standards too. After I’ve taken a look at videos with my ‘teacher eye,’ We like to give it a score based on: - Popularity with teachers online - The video’s relevance to curriculums around the globe - Whether it’s ever been suggested by any users previously All of these elements tell us how useful, trustworthy and valued the content is likely to be once it’s on the platform. If we’re still unsure, we’ll go straight to third-party educators and get them to do an in-depth review for us where we can establish what works, and what doesn’t. User, teacher, and publisher feedback are paramount so that we can provide our end-users, students, with the best learning experiences and be a reliable, trustworthy and inspirational resource in any educators' toolkit. 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