Why use PlayPosit?

Using digital video as a learning tool is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways for instructors to convey content to students. With instructors assigning online videos from sources like Khan Academy, YouTube, and others, as well as recording their own lectures or presentations with screencasting tools and assigning the video as part of an online, blended, or flipped class, video content is growing pervasive. But how do instructors know which students watched the assigned video as required for the class? Who watched the entire video, who simply clicked play and went on to something else while the video played on, and of those who watched, who was able to grasp the concepts taught in the video? PlayPosit is a great solution for this.

PlayPosit can help solve the following problems, among others:

• Students not paying attention to explanations in class 
• Some students not understanding explanations, and needing another teacher’s presentation 
• Snow days and absences causing students to miss valuable instructional time 
• Students needing more guided lessons for reinforcement than simply filling out a worksheet 

Capabilities

Interactive video assessment tools not only allow videos to be assigned for students to watch, they also allow for assessment of content comprehension to be embedded into the video at precisely the right moment. When the instructor feels it is important to be certain the concept is successfully covered, he or she can require that a question be answered before the student goes on to watch more of the video. Instructors get real-time feedback and actionable data to track progress towards learning outcomes. PlayPosit eliminates the need for additional worksheets or check-for-understanding quizzes.

Features

• Search existing video on the Internet from sources such as YouTube and Khan Academy. 
• Customize the exact video clip or clips to assign, starting at any point and ending at any point to assign a specific “snippet.” 
• Record your own voice over the assigned video for narration or to add additional information. 
• Embed custom assessment questions (true/false, multiple choice, open format) into the assigned video at any point on the video timeline. 
• Review individual student and course-level assessment analytics to identify the percentage of students who have completed the assignment. 
• Monitor students live as they complete the assignment, or afterwards once they have completed it.
• Assign students to create their own video assessment projects as a class assignment as a Learner-Made Bulb.

Analytics

Instructors can use the analytics to easily see which students have completed watching assigned videos and understood the concepts. If the analytics show that a good percentage of the class missed a particular question or set of questions, the instructor can drill down into the data to determine which individuals answered incorrectly and also look to see if there is a trend in selecting the same wrong answer, indicating that there is a common misunderstanding or misapplication of the information being taught. With the data available, the instructor can pinpoint the misconceived information and re-teach the concept. Similarly, instructors can easily spot the student who consistently answers incorrectly and in turn can assign appropriate support material. 

At the top of Analytics, you are given an overview of how many students reached each question and a distribution of how your class as a whole understood the concepts tested within the question. Clicking into the question from the bar chart expands the view, providing more details on the question itself and how many students got the question right or wrong. Similarly, hovering over the pie chart for average score and lesson completed status, gives you details on the number of students falling within each category. You can also view a question-by-question breakdown, the total time they took to answer, and the answer submitted for each question. 

Using PlayPosit

You can log into PlayPosit using your Trinity Google account. You can sync your Google Classroom data to PlayPosit as well. Students will need to sign in to your class as well, and should use their Trinity Google account so that you have the option to make your bulbs private to our institution. 

To use PlayPosit with Google for homework or substitute plans, first set up your PlayPosit classroom. You can link the invite code to your Weebly page or attach it to Google Classroom.

You can find a pre-made video lesson ("Bulb") or make your own. There is a library of over 400,000 pre-made interactive video lessons that can be copied and edited for delivery in your own classroom. You can add or edit questions of multiple types, and monitor students live or afterward. It could be a great tool for use as a formative assessment. Data is saved for years, so you can use the same bulbs from year to year, and edit when necessary.

Preview this bulb to see what your students will see when they use PlayPosit.

Positive Student Feedback

• “I didn’t really understand at first, but the playposit tutorial really helped, and now I think I get it.” 
• “Homework was actually fun last night” 
• “I can’t get that silly song out of my head!”

More Information

• See the attached in-depth PDF