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