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Your teacher’s assigned a video project, and you have no clue where to begin. Other than Googling “how to make a video for school” that is. The good news? Even if your video assignment is due tomorrow, making educational videos for school is easier and simpler than you think.
Your teachers are assigning these digital tasks, because virtual and online learning is growing rapidly. The number of online learners is projected to reach 1 billion before 2029. That means more video assignments for students such as yourself.
Your school is just preparing you for the future. But school video assignments don’t need to be challenging. They’re actually a fun and quick way to complete your learning online. You don’t need fancy editing software to do it either. You just need the Clipchamp video editor.
Now you just need some creative ways to present your video project. Don’t worry, we’ve got you! Here’s 20 video project ideas for your next online class.
1. Video presentation
Whether it’s geography or biology, your school assignments don’t need to be dry. Make your group assignment a cinematic masterpiece. With a video presentation, you can use visuals to paint pictures in real-time and interact with the facts by using music, special effects, and GIFs.
A PowerPoint presentation is fine, but with a video you dictate the pace and flow of the information rather than just clicking ‘next slide.’ Even if you just create a slideshow video or screen recording with narration, the engaging professionalism of a video will capture your audience’s attention and impress your teacher.
2. Video essay
Make your analysis of your English book or history topic exciting by making a video essay. The script is easier to write because you break down the information into bite-sized chunks. You think about the topic as a visual storyteller, which ultimately helps you understand the subject better!
Don’t want to record your voice? No problem! Get AI to voice your video essay with our AI voiceover generator. Just type in the text and choose from over 400 natural sounding voices.
3. Video case study
Simplify complex ideas for in-depth analysis with a video case study. Use visuals and text to analyze historical events, problem-oriented situations, or cumulative data. The video shows your case study in action, and you can use text to highlight the important information.
Use text animation when summarizing and providing case study details so your hypothesis is thoroughly conveyed while still being engaging.
4. Video resume
Whether you’re looking for your first job in high school, or entering the workforce after college, a video resume visualizes your CV while displaying your personality. Your video resume can either supplement or accompany your paper or online resume. Either way it will provide you with an advantage and set you apart from other candidates.
Record your webcam and screen to narrate your video resume and use the green screen filter to replace your video background with the perfect employer-friendly backdrop.
5. Book review
Become a literary critic and record a talking-head book review. Or think more creatively and make a movie-style book trailer. You can also dress up as your favorite character or the author to narrate your book report. Think beyond the boring written book essay and use visuals and music to convey the mood and themes.
If you want to narrate your book review while displaying images, use picture-in-picture video editing effect so you can show two visuals at the same time.
6. Video portfolio
For creative high school and university students, a video portfolio is professional and efficient. Journalists and media professionals can visualize their articles or video pieces. Budding artists can soundtrack their artwork with music. Aspiring actors, animators, and filmmakers can tease snippets of their film credits. Showcase your work for prospective employers, colleges, and other opportunities like fellowships and grants.
Use our artist portfolio template and use scene transitions to make a seamless and smooth video portfolio.
7. School club promo video
Have you recently joined or started a club for chess, drama, debating, or sports? Want more students to sign up to your school club? Create a school club promo video and build buzz around your club activities and events.
Add your club logo and get hyped with our royalty-free music collection to spread the word and drive memberships.
8. Yearbook video
You don’t need to make physical yearbooks anymore. Why go through the pain of printing and binding and manufacturing when you can make a yearbook video? Mix photos and videos and add a music soundtrack then share online so all your peers, friends, and family can relive your school year.
Add animated emojis to bring your biggest LOLs and cringe moments to life.
9. Class intro video
New to class? New to school? New peers in your class who just moved class or school? Don’t introduce yourself the standard scary way. No need to stand in front of the whiteboard and pretend public speaking doesn’t freak you out. Create a quick “about me” video that you can present on the smartboard or by sending a link.
Explore our range of intro and outro templates to create an unforgettable introduction.
10. Holiday celebration video
Celebrate your favorite holiday like Halloween, New Years or Fourth of July, or document your vacation during school holidays with a holiday celebration video. Tell the story of your time off by creating a video collage to share with your class or on social media.
Get started with our video collage templates and resize them for Instagram Reels or TikTok.
11. Back to school video vlog
What’s more exciting than shopping for new stationery when returning to school after summer break? Documenting the new semester with a back-to-school video vlog! Mix a talking head style with real life footage of your school day. Create a behind-the-scenes day or week in the life of starting a new year level or new campus.
Our silence remover highlights any pause or silence longer than three seconds so you can quickly delete it. This can create a vlog with that quick and jumpy style you and your viewers are used to seeing on YouTube.
12. Personal reflection video
Improve your academic or sports performance by creating a reflection video. Learn from your mistakes and actively seek self-improvement by narrating your wins and losses, mistakes and achievements, the good and the bad.
Use text animation and our quotes templates to turn your personal reflection video into a daily mantra to help you achieve your future goals.
13. Mindfulness video
Need to get Zen before your next big exam? Want to meditate but want to set your own pace and atmosphere? Make your own mindfulness video by structuring your own breathing and tranquility exercises to manage stress and anxiety during test time.
Create a peaceful and restorative environment for your video using colorful video backgrounds and calm stock audio.
14. Science project video
Document your class assignment like a scientist by turning your chemistry or physics homework into a filmed science experiment. You can capture the visuals of your experiment and combine with text to summarize your hypotheses and findings.
Add our royalty-free science stock videos and images to give your experiment video that authentic “sciency” feel.
15. How to tutorial video
Are you an expert on something that you could teach a class on? Fastest Rubix cube solver? Natural at home DIY projects with mom and dad? World-leading bottle flip specialist? Teach your teacher and fellow students how to do what you do best by creating your own how-to tutorial video.
Follow the screen recording style if you need to refer to a computer screen. Or if you’re capturing live action, speed up or slow down footage to highlight a section of your tutorial.
16. School band promo video
Whether your school band is still in your garage phase perfecting covers or already writing originals, hype-up an upcoming contest or performance with a behind-the-scenes promo video. If you’ve recorded your music, go full superstar and make your own music video.
Don’t worry about fancy sets, do what the major artists do and use our green screen background remover to perform in front of any background.
17. School tour video
Nobody knows the school grounds better than those who go to class every day. Know the best place to munch on your sandwich when it’s sunny or rainy? Know the quietest spot for studying that isn’t the library? Create a school tour for the students by students.
Get started by using travel highlight videos for inspiration then combine video clips of your school’s best locations to make a tour video like no other.
18. Student life hacks video
Got some hot study tips for test time? Do your friends turn to you for studying and productivity advice? Share your favorite school hacks to save time and boost your efficiency. Create your own educational videos of student hacks and build your personal brand as your school’s go-to productivity expert.
Speaking of hacks, get some inspiration with our top hacks for creating videos quicker.
19. News video
Liven up your history class by creating your own news channel or program. Make your own newsroom with an entire panel of experts from anchors to sports and weather. Or practice modern social media reporting with a piece-to-camera or talk to the people street interviews.
Change your video’s aspect ratio to make a news program for television or a reporter-on-scene piece for mobile and social media.
20. Sports highlight video
Lacrosse? Hockey? Volleyball? Football? Baseball? Soccer? No matter your sport, all you need is a friend who’s good with a phone camera and you can make your own sports highlight reel.
Capture a play of the game moment by looping your video to rapidly repeat the same frame to make a highlight video worthy of the major sports channels.
Tips to edit amazing video projects for school
Add text: Share important information with animated titles and lower thirds. Moving and stylistic text helps your message stand out and conveys the good bits without distracting your audience.
Improve accessibility: Make your videos more inclusive and accessible for viewers with special needs. Use subtitles and sign language stickersto make your videos easier to follow for the hearing impaired and sound-off viewers.
Guide with narration: Add depth and clearly communicate your video’s message with professional narration. Create a lifelike narrator in multiple languages and accents with AI voiceover (text to speech) or be your own narrator using voice recorder.
Control the pace: Make your video flow smoothly and seamlessly using visually crisp transitions between clips. Blending between visuals creates mood and rhythm that enhances the viewing experience for the audience.
Frequently asked questions
Is Clipchamp free for Education?
Clipchamp is available at no extra cost to current Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 licenses.
What do students use Clipchamp for Education for?
Video presentations for a variety of online learning tasks including creative video projects, group assignments, video essays and any virtual learning coursework.
How to make a fun video for school?
Bring your ideas to life with our royalty-free stock video and audio. Combine sci-fi footage with a space age soundtrack or score epic historical shots to stirring classical orchestras. The sky’s limit with our ready to use content library. You can also start with a professionally designed template and customize in just a few clicks of a mouse.
How to start a school video editing project?
Start with a script or storyboard. This will help you choose an idea for how to style your video. Then begin with an intro template that suits your presentation. Then add moving text to introduce your name, class, and subject. Make your video feel professional by adding music and sound effects. You can also record your webcam and narrate with picture-in-picture.
There you have it. Enough video presentation ideas for students that you’re sorted for several semesters of online learning. Once you experience how fun and easy video editing is, video presentations might become your default way of submitting assignments. You may just want to make your own social media videos for when you go back to school after the break.
Start editing school video projects with the free Clipchamp video editor or download the Microsoft Clipchamp Windows app.
