Posting videos on Moodle can be a great way to expose your students to more material for your course. However, doing so raises several challenges:
How do you know the students are actually watching the videos?
Even if students do watch the videos, how do you know if they’re engaged and paying attention?
How can you connect the content of the videos with classroom activities?
Edpuzzle offers a solution to all of these. With it, you can overlay questions on a video available online – including existing ones like those on YouTube, or ones you upload yourself to GoogleDrive. Currently, Edpuzzle offers multiple-choice, true-false, open-ended questions, and notes that students simply view rather than respond to. When the student comes to a point in the video where you’ve set up a question, the video will pause until the student responds. Responses are viewable on Edpuzzle’s website, and you can even have the students’ scores on the questions automatically appear in your Moodle gradebook.
Edpuzzle allows you address the challenges described above. For example, you can:
Establish accountability by asking several easy questions throughout the video.
Increase engagement by using questions as a low-stakes graded quiz to check for understanding as students watch the video.
Connect videos to the classroom by addressing the students’ responses in class. You could review material students did poorly with, or use open-ended questions to collect material and reactions to discuss in class.
If you’re interested in learning more about Edpuzzle, take a look at our video tutorial tutorial.
