Our high school recently purchased a 50-license subscription to WeVideo for Education at a cost of $149 for six months. We are a small school, so the 50 licenses are adequate for our communications classes. If you want to do serious video editing  at a low cost per student,  WeVideo is an excellent alternative to higher-end, more expensive software. With WeVideo no downloading, installing, or upgrading are necessary.  And if your school uses Chromebooks, it is the only alternative for video  editing if you want to do green screen or picture-in-a picture videos.  The paid version also offers more cloud storage per user and more minutes per month for  published videos than the free personal plan.

For teachers, WeVideo for Education is feature-rich.  Teachers have full control over student accounts, which are in compliance with COPPA and FERPA rules and guidelines.  Instructors can  create groups, allow various editing rights to individuals,  create collaborative or individual projects,  and (my personal favorite) monitor student use of WeVideo (see screen shot below).

One of the projects in my communications class will be creating a school news broadcast with WeVideo. My students and I are psyched about it!  We'll use WeVideo, of course for other projects.  Because it can record voice-over, we may even use it to create podcasts!  Oh, and the learning  curve for WeVideo? Very short. The program is easy to learn!

Yesterday I had a substitute teacher, and I needed him to show various videos to my classes.  In order to make it simple for him, I created a Google Classroom called "Substitute Teacher."   I then created an assignment for each of my courses detailing what the students and the substitue needed to do. I was in the building working on curriculum, so I logged him into the class, but  had I been sick at home,  the principal could have logged in to give the substitute access. You may wonder why I didn't just have the students go to their Classroom pages to see the videos. We are not a 1:1 school, so the videos needed to be shown on the projector, and the assignments were handed out as  printed worksheets. I wanted everything for all my courses easily accessible to the sub. I could have created  YouTube playlists  instead, but I was also able to type all the instructions for the sub in Classroom.
See the screenshots of the substitute classroom page below. The substitute class has no  students enrolled. The "assignments"  on the page are for  the substitute's use only; they won't be completed and turned in  by anyone via Classroom.