Best option for non-course video content? Channels?

Intriguing challenge. I think the best you are going to get from DCS are the equivalent to impressions - and that type of tracking really does not help what you are trying to track.

Unsure if you are open to discussing what is the concern about using courses or if it is a hard requirement that is seen as a boulder? Can you leverage the autoenroll url if it was because of count of clicks? My understanding - there is even a url (quick enrollment) that just drops you in the course today - no landing page - and this is the equivalent of clicking on a video on a tile in a catalog.

I ask because your best experience for tracking begins with putting those videos into a course. 
 

Thanks ​@dklinger. Courses create a whole additional layer of requirements around admin and visibility, especially for our PUs who don’t use the platform a lot. There are going to be a LOT of very short (2-3min) videos (far more than our number of actual courses), so I was really hoping to keep these separate from our course lists, but it doesn’t appear this is going ot be an option. I think I’m now resigned to the fact it’s going to have to be courses, and just manage the extra admin and training requirements to make this work. Thanks for the advice.

You're right that courses end up being the path here — without DCS, there's no way to surface standalone video assets with tracked completion. But courses don't have to feel heavy, for learners or for admins. I've set this up for several organizations with similar requirements (hundreds of short 2-3 min videos, lean admin teams), and the trick is treating these as "micro-courses" with the right configuration.

Make it feel like channel content for learners. The game-changer here is Focus Mode on the course player. When you enable it, the course opens directly into a full-screen immersive player — no course overview page, no extra widgets cluttering the screen. Combine this with setting the Starting View to go straight to the course player (skip the overview page entirely), and your learners click a video, it plays full-screen immediately. That's essentially the same experience as watching content in a channel, but with proper completion tracking baked in. The video LO tracks actual watch progress: 90% for videos under 2.5 minutes, or 15 seconds before the end for longer ones — so "completed" genuinely means "watched," not just "clicked."

Details on configuring the player here: Configuring the course player

Automate course creation from a shared drive. For the admin side, the biggest win I've implemented for teams in this situation is a one-time integration: connect a Google Drive or OneDrive folder so that when someone uploads a new video file, it automatically creates a micro-course, uploads the video as training material, and assigns it to the correct catalog. It's a one-time build using the Docebo APIs (course creation + LO upload + catalog assignment), but once it's in place, your content creators just drop a video into a folder and it appears in the platform — no manual course creation, no catalog assignment, no admin overhead. For organizations producing dozens of videos a month, this pays for itself immediately.

Happy to share more details on the automation setup if it helps.

​@Moshe.Machlav - would love to see it!!!

Yes ​@Moshe.Machlav, would love to see it.

I checked that out, but unfortunately the company got bought out and they’ve switched over to another platform.

That’s a shame. But thanks ​@Moshe.Machlav for taking the time to check. Much appreciated.