Adding Questions to Videos
When you venture down the road of creating instructional videos for students to watch by themselves, the question of accountability always comes up. How do you know students watched the video? Moreover, how do you know they understood the content of the video? Thankfully, there are tools to help with that, and this is what we are going to explore in this module.
EdPuzzle
One of my favorite video tools for formative assessment is called EdPuzzle. It lets you add questions and comments to a video that will help you better assess student understanding. You can do this with your own screencasts, or you can use a video from YouTube. Here is a video from Richard Byrne that goes over some of the main features.
Google Forms
Another great option is Google Forms. This is a free tool that is available to all teachers with school-issued Google accounts. You can only add a video from YouTube, but you can also add a self-grading quiz underneath the video to check for understanding and collect some data about how well students understood the content of your video.
To add a video, simply click the YouTube icon to the side of a question and enter the URL for the video. See the image below.
Here are some links to assist you on building a video assessment in Google Forms:
- How to create a Google Form and add questions or videos Links to an external site.
- Create and grade quizzes with Google Forms Links to an external site.
Flipgrid
Another popular tool for student responses is flipgrid.com. This platform allows the teacher to create assignments that students can respond to with a video message or even a screencast of their own. All you need to do is upload a screencast to Flipgrid, and leave a discussion prompt or question for students to answer after watching your video. Students can leave a response to your video as a text comment, an audio comment, or as a video of their own. They can also see and reply to their peers if they want. Here is a quick video overview of how that works.