Interactive Video Assessment Tools
These interactive video assessment tools are perfect for creating customized integrated assessments for tutorials from videos that either you create or from existing video on the Internet (from sources such as YouTube and Khan Academy). Both tools (PlayPosit and EDpuzzle) allow you to embed custom assessment questions (true/false, multiple choice, open format, check box, etc.) into the assigned video at any point on the video timeline and then deliver the assessment to your students. You can then track their progress and performance through analytics and even export grades to your computer. Check out the presentation under Tutorials-Interactive Video Assessment Tools for more information about the features of each of these tools.
A free, web-based platform, PlayPosit (formerly EduCanon) allows you to build formative assessments right on top of any YouTube, Vimeo, TeacherTube, or KhanAcademy video. You can create unlimited lessons that ask students questions in a variety of formats, such as multiple choice, reflective, fill-in-the-blank, and free response and see your students' learning needs in real time as they watch the video and complete the questions. Questions can be embedded at specific points in the video "bulb" and teachers receive instant feedback on each question, helping teachers to understand which students are having difficulty with the material and what content needs to be retaught. You can build your own library of lessons and ask students to create their own, perfect for flipping the traditional classroom.
EDpuzzle is another free, web-based platform that allows you to build video formative assessments. Users can search video services such as YouTube, Khan Academy, LearnZillion, National Geographic, TED, Veritasium, Numberphile, CrashCourse, Club Academia, Vimeo, and TeacherTube directly in the interface or upload their own videos. Once a video is selected or uploaded, the user can specify a start/stop time for a section of the video if he or she does not want to use the entire length. After cropping the video, users can add questions or record their voice to add an audio note. EDpuzzle allows questions to have formatted text, images, subscripts, superscripts, external links, and math equations. With EDpuzzle, if a student is playing a video, then clicks on another tab in his or her browser, the video pauses, preventing the student from completing other tasks while working on the video assignment. This feature essentially prevents students from being tempted to divert their attention from the task at hand. The free version of EDpuzzle provides unlimited use—no limit to classes, videos, projects, students, etc and integrates well with Google Classroom.