The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook details how to use online videos and live events to train remote volunteers who will provide volunteering service virtually. It talks about both orientation and training videos. It talks about what should be in such videos and how to ensure volunteers, or candidates for such, have actually watched them.

This wiki page provides examples of online videos used orient or train remote volunteers.

Some things to keep in mind as you look through these online orientations and trainings:

• some are slide shows, with just text and images
• some videos are quite short, some are quite long (45 minutes); how long they are depends on the needs of the organization with regard to training and orienting volunteers.

Examples

Examples of online videos used for orienting and training volunteers.

• Family Promise Volunteer Training Videos - for volunteers that will work with homeless families.
• "I Can Volunteer" - Project Angel Food. We consider this the greatest training video EVER for new volunteers. No, really, it's that good.
• International Volunteer Orientation Working with Our In-Country Partners, video for Medical Teams International.
• Volunteer Orientation Part 1, video for Global Aware.
• Welcome to Volunteers (An Informal Hello), video for Aid Workers Network.
• Volunteer Orientation video for World Relief Durham.
• Volunteer Orientation for Safe Sanctuaries, for reducing the risk of child abuse in churches.
• Parent Volunteer Orientation 2012-2013 video for Clinton Township (New Jersey) School District.
• Dozer Day Volunteer Orientation 2013.
• Young AmeriTowne Volunteer Orientation 2012-2013, for Young Americans Center for Financial Education.
• Orientation for Volunteer Web Design Teams who will be helping nonprofits through an online build-a-thon.
• Orientation for Online Volunteers in a transcription project. This is for the 2021 project affiliated with Douglas Day, one of the many transcription projects of the Library of Congress's By the People initiative. To celebrate the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass, February 14, online volunteers work together to transcribe an online collection related to Black history and culture.
• World Pulse orientation and training for its ambassador program. About 15 minutes.

Yahoo used to have an amazing online academy for its contributors - all volunteers. The Yahoo Contributor Network's online training academy had three stages of courses. For each stage, there was a badge, earned by reading the materials and taking a quiz to prove you understood the materials. The materials are still available on The Internet Wayback Machine/archive.org. It's an excellent example of a text-based online remote training and clean design. You can see it by cutting and pasting https://contributor.yahoo.com/academy/ into archive.org; if you click on a course link and it doesn't work, type the URL again into the Internet Wayback machine and you should be able to find it.  

Want to know what you need to keep in mind when creating your online volunteer orientation? The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook  can help! It's  available for purchase as a paperback and an ebook. The  Last  Virtual Volunteering Guidebook provides details on this and all other aspects of supporting and involving volunteers using Internet tools.