Playposit 201: Advanced Features

For those of you looking to improve student engagement with your videos, the tool PlayPosit can help students stay engaged and retain key course content. PlayPosit is an online learning platform that allows you to add questions and other interactions into the timeline of your videos, making videos more engaging for students and providing you and your students with feedback on what learning is taking place.

In this webinar about PlayPosit's more advanced platform functionalities, Emily from the PlayPosit instructional design team taught about:

• The capabilities of PlayPosit’s rich text editor
• Advanced interaction settings
• Branched learning with jumps & hot spots
• And more!

Also, Emily showed a number of use cases that highlight advanced functionalities and how to implement those techniques. Here are resources that Emily shared after this webinar:

• 101 Resource Guide
• PlayPosit Blog
• Weekly Office Hours:
• Tuesdays at 8:00 am PT with Angie
• Tuesdays at 8:30 am PT with Brady
• Wednesdays at 12:00 pm PT with Laura
• Thursdays at 2:30 pm PT with Emily

If you are new to PlayPosit, we suggest that you watch the recording of our “Introduction to PlayPosit” webinar and explore the resources below before viewing this webinar on more advanced features. A brief introductory video is available for viewing, and the PlayPosit knowledge base contains a wealth of information for all things PlayPosit, including the following resources concerning Canvas, bulbs (i.e., the interactive videos created in PlayPosit), and privacy:

• Accessing PlayPosit in Canvas
• Building a Bulb
• Monitoring Bulbs
• Privacy Settings

In addition to the information provided above by PlayPosit, UC Davis also provides the following knowledge base articles that may be of interest to new campus PlayPosit users:

• Getting Started with PlayPosit
• Authenticating and accessing your PlayPosit account
• Using PlayPosit with Canvas for student learning
• PlayPosit: Student perspective

Please feel free to reach out to instructionaldesign@ucdavis.edu with questions.