Understanding Featured Channels

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Summary

  • Featured Channels bring together every video from a single producer in one place, so you can explore their full collection instead of finding videos scattered across topics and search results.
  • Each channel opens with a preview banner introducing the producer, followed by their videos organized into recent, popular, and series sections.
  • Featured Channels are curated by ClickView’s content team and bring together the work of a single producer, while topics are curated from videos across many different producers.
  • Access Featured Channels from the widget on the Discover dashboard, through the Featured Channels directory, or by searching for a channel by name.
  • Search within a channel to find specific content from that producer.
  • The channels you see depend on your region. A channel available in one region isn’t always available in another.
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What are Featured Channels in ClickView?
Featured Channels bring together every video from one producer in a single place, so you can explore all their videos and resources rather than finding them across topics, series, and search results. Each channel includes a banner introducing the producer, videos organized by recent, popular, and series, and a search bar to find more of their videos. You’ll find Featured Channels as a widget on the Discover dashboard, in the Featured Channels directory, or by searching for a channel by name.

Understanding Featured Channels

On ClickView, you’ll find videos from many different producers and production companies. You can already browse by topic, such as Science, Geography, or History, or search across the platform. But topics group videos by subject, not by producer, so there’s no single place to see everything one producer has made.

That’s where Featured Channels come in. When you find a video that works well for your class and want to see more from the same producer, a Featured Channel brings all of that producer’s videos together in one place.

Each Featured Channel opens with a preview banner introducing the producer, followed by their videos organized into sections such as recent, popular, and series, plus custom sections specific to that channel. The myShakespeare channel, for example, includes a dedicated section for The Prologue from Romeo and Juliet. You can also search within a channel to find more of that producer’s content.

myShakespeare page

How Featured Channels differ from Topics

Both Featured Channels and Topics are curated by ClickView’s Education Team, but they organize content differently:

  • Topics gather videos about a particular subject from many different producers.
  • Featured Channels gather all the videos from a single producer.

A Topic focuses on one subject, so its videos all relate to that subject. A Featured Channel focuses on one producer, so its videos can span many different subjects and topics.

Where to find Featured Channels

There are four ways to find Featured Channels:

  1. From the widget on the Discover dashboard
  2. Through the Featured Channels directory
  3. By searching for a channel by name
  4. From a video or series play page

Which channels you see depends on your region. A channel available in one region isn’t always available in another.

On the Discover dashboard

The Featured Channels widget on the Discover dashboard showcases channels highlighted by ClickView’s content team. The widget is horizontally scrollable and shows six channel logos at a time, each with the channel name beneath it.

  • Select a channel logo to open that channel’s page.
  • Select the widget title or the See all button (top right) to open the Featured Channels directory.
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The directory is headed Channels and shows every Featured Channel available to you. At the top of the page is a navigation bar with a Featured tab, a # tab, and the letters A–Z.

  • The Featured tab shows the same channels highlighted in the Discover widget, presented as a single list.
  • Select a letter to jump to channels whose name begins with that letter. The full list is grouped and sorted alphabetically.

You can reorder the alphabetical list using the sort control at the top right, which offers Recently Updated, A–Z, and Newest. These sort options apply to the alphabetical list only, not the Featured tab.

Featured channels directory

By searching for a channel

You can find a Featured Channel from the main ClickView search bar, the same one you use to search for videos and Topics. Matching channels appear in a Channels section of your search results, shown as logo tiles with the channel name beneath. Select a channel logo to open its page.

You don’t need to type the exact channel name. A partial match surfaces the channel.

Searching for a channel

On a video or series play page

If a video or series is associated with a Featured Channel, the channel’s logo appears directly below the play page. Select the logo, for example, Bluey’s logo, to open that channel’s page.

On a video or series play page

Searching within a Featured Channel

You can search inside a Featured Channel to find more videos from that producer.

At the bottom of a channel page, find the All videos widget. The last tile is labeled Search all videos. Select it to open a search scoped to that channel. A Search in: [channel name] tag appears in the search bar to show you’re searching inside the channel.

Searching within a Featured Channel

The results are limited to videos from that channel, but otherwise work exactly like a standard ClickView search. Results are grouped into the same sections, such as Series, Top results, and Related results. All the same filters are available too, including Subjects, Year groups, Movies + TV, Sources, Ratings, Resources, Types, and more filters.

In-channel search with “Search in” tag and results

Series search results

In-channel search results for a keyword (e.g., Wind)

Search results for a keyword

Frequently asked questions

A Featured Channel brings together all the videos from a single producer, while a Topic gathers videos about a particular subject from many different producers. Both are curated by ClickView’s Education Team. A Topic focuses on one subject, so its videos all relate to that subject. A Featured Channel focuses on one producer, so its videos can span many different subjects and topics.
Featured Channels are curated by ClickView’s Education Team, who choose which producers to feature and highlight selected channels on the Discover dashboard and in the Featured Channels directory.
The channels you see depend on your region, so a colleague elsewhere can see a different set of Featured Channels. A channel available in one region isn’t always available in another.
On a channel page, scroll to the All videos widget at the bottom and select the Search all videos tile. This opens a search scoped to that channel, with a Search in: [channel name] tag appearing in the search bar. The results and filters work the same as a standard ClickView search, but only return videos from that channel.

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