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Moodle gives you three ways to add video, and two of them quietly fail at scale: file upload bloats your backups and caps out on size, YouTube embeds leak private content and track nothing. This is the full walkthrough of the third way, adding a streamed, captioned, trackable video with the FastPix plugin, plus how a K-12 provider does it for every lesson.
Upload an MP4 to Moodle and you get a player, not a transcript. Moodle has no built-in auto-captioning, so captions are on you, and in 2026 ADA Title II and the EU Accessibility Act make them mandatory. Here's why Moodle can't do it, what the rules require, and a full walkthrough to auto-caption Moodle videos with the FastPix plugin.
Moodle plays video, but it does not stream it well, protect it, caption it, or tell you who watched it. The FastPix Moodle video plugin adds all of that: adaptive playback, auto-captions, DRM, and completion that grades students on the seconds they actually watched. Here is what it does, how it compares to Moodle's built-in video, and how to install, use, and grade with it.