PlayPosit – Interactive video creator with a variety of question format

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Assessment, Formative Assessment, Presentation, Flip classroom, Classroom Management, Instructional Strategies, Differentiate instructions




Have you wondered if your students are actually watching the videos you assign?

PlayPosit can provide the answer. Use PlayPosit to embed quiz-type questions, facts, or links to websites in a video you create or a video you find from on site library or sources such as YouTube, TEDx, Vimeo, Khan Academy, and other popular video platforms. From inside Canvas, instructors can create an assignment that requires students to interact with the video they watch. PlayPosit also includes analytics, so instructors can see how students respond to questions. Instructors can even assign students the task of creating an interactive video. Data can then be analyzed on the individual or group level, providing powerful insight into educational trends in the classroom.



Using video effectively in the classroom requires switching students from passive to active viewers. Often teachers will have students take notes while they watch, or pause videos and ask questions and spark discussions. PlayPosit offers a platform for weaving these teaching strategies into the videos themselves. Stop bulbs to add various questions, polls, discussion prompts and so on.




It is an interactive visual web-based video learning tool that allows educators to build lessons into videos so that students can learn while viewing a video. The platform lets educators take formative assessment both inside and outside the classroom. Instructors can add quizzes or texts lessons to help facilitate learning during the course of a video. The goal with Playposit, is to have students learn at their own pace in a fully online setting.


Getting started :- 

Begin with any online video and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities. 

The tool lets you create interactive video lessons called "bulbs".

  • find, upload or create a video (YouTube, Vimeo and more)
  • stop the video at different points and insert your questions, audio, text, images and links
  • Share the link to your video lesson
  • review student participation and answers to your questions
  • After you create an ID, you can access one of the 300,000 free public interactive videos





The simple interface is limited to three options: Video Segments, Interactions, and Review. Using those tabs, users can combine and crop videos, include closed captions, and add interactions, including polls, multiple-choice questions, pauses for discussion, and written responses with optional feedback. 


Teachers strapped for time can also perform a filtered search through thousands of premade bulbs, copy them onto their dashboard, and edit as desired. 


Teachers can tweak videos with some useful affordances for students, including whether they can rewind, fast-forward, skip interactions, or redo the bulb. 


The free version features unlimited bulbs but only 100 learner attempts at bulbs per month.


Tweak settings on bulb to customize student experience




Overview - 



PlayPosit 3.0 Getting Started Guide

Video Tutorials


Example of a PlayPosit video

https://app.playpos.it/player_v2?type=share&bulb_id=957197&lms_launch=false


Features


♣ Sync videos from popular platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, etc.

♣ Add interactive questions and rich media into the video’s timeline to actively engage on mobile or web devices.

♣ Embed videos directly into Learning Management Systems (LMS). LTI/API integration with Edmodo, Schoology, Moodle, Blackboard, Google, and others permit seamless utilization.

♣ Monitor all student video engagement through a central dashboard

♣ Play Posit provides a URL for sharing their video manually and the code for embedding it on a webpage.

♣ Learner responses are graded and displayed in real-time to ensure a tight feedback loop



How can you teach with this tool?


Create PlayPosit videos for use in your flipped classroom or for differentiating instruction in any subject. 


Monitor student usage and progress using the site's tools. Use this tool to enhance learning by allowing students to create their own videos to review classroom material.


Pause a video about climate change to ask students not only to recall key facts but to answer a poll question, or to provide an in-depth response about the benefits and drawbacks of renewable energy. 



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