The ability to enhance online courses with simple video elements helps students to not only complete assignments, readings, and discussions, it helps students to check into your classes more often thus you retain students. This presentation will demonstrate how to create a simple video, compress it, and access code to embed the file into your Course Management System or even upload to a website, blog or YouTube. The best thing is, no expensive equipment or software is required, and for the most part it will cost you nothing except time.