Hi Katie Venit,
You're asking for a tall order there with the necessity to have so many videos but not all on one page and not on several pages throughout but embedded in the content. My mind is exploding just thinking of all that.
So what I will share is that I have a few courses up with tons of videos; 1 course has 217 short videos but I do not plan on using all of them. In general when I have a lot of videos, I prefer to list them in an ordered table with open in a new tab rather than crowd the page with embedded content. These videos are generally grouped by lesson because they are the recorded lecture snippets from an instructor bring their in-person course online.
![Wiki page with table of videos. Wiki page with table of videos.](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28515i031B046181DE5156/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999)
The problem is that a student would have to remember which videos they watched. Recently I've decided to tackle this problem with using a multiple-answer survey with each answer as a video link.
![survey page with list of videos as answer responses survey page with list of videos as answer responses](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28516iC06FB8940404D127/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999)
The survey will keep the responses and as a bonus I can make it a graded survey for "participation". In the Canvas Student app, the links will not open in a new window as the checkbox takes precedence, so I put in a note "Please use a full-size web browser to view these videos" if the student's screen is too small.
Initially the student has to press the Start Quiz or Resume Quiz button to see the links, but once they submit the survey, all the links show up on the page as the survey shows their responses. I piloted this feature last week with 1 lesson of 7 videos and some students have watched the videos and some are still in progress, so we'll see if it works well enough to put into full production for a whole course worth of lecture videos.
I'm sure you'll get other ideas for what to do with many videos. I personally do not like to put more than 3 on a page and I always want some lead-in text for the video so that there is a context.
Cheers - Shar