Our students have to see several videos on an external platform. What's the best way to track that they've seen the videos?
So far we've tried to use manual completion, asking them to click after watching, but we've verified that they just click without looking at the videos.
What's the best solution to this?
We'd like a plugin that ties completion to time (so they can only click that's completed after a certain amount of time has passed)
Or to have a plugin that forces them to tell us what time they were online and what resources they've seen.
This is mostly for bureaucratic reasons.
In reply to Serena Marangoni
Re: Self-certification or a way to force to watch videos
by Mary Cooch -
The standard solution to this is to add a quiz with questions about the video relating to events at intervals during the video - so they are forced to watch it - or at least find the bits where the questions are.
If you are not interested in whether they actually watch them or not, and instead for bureaucratic reasons need them to tie completion to the video length, then embed the videos into a Lesson activity. This has completion based on time so you can set the time to, say a minute longer than the actual video itself. Of course they can switch it on and leave the room and come back later -but it will tick your bureaucratic box.
If you are not interested in whether they actually watch them or not, and instead for bureaucratic reasons need them to tie completion to the video length, then embed the videos into a Lesson activity. This has completion based on time so you can set the time to, say a minute longer than the actual video itself. Of course they can switch it on and leave the room and come back later -but it will tick your bureaucratic box.
In reply to Serena Marangoni
Re: Self-certification or a way to force to watch videos
by David Le Blanc -
Further to Mary's suggestion of using the Lesson activity, you might provide the rationale why it is important to view the videos. The question to end the Lesson activity before moving on to the videos might be an agreement which the students would click, acknowledging their adherence to the agreement before moving forward to the videos. This would add a formal pause, rather than only presenting a button to move forward.
In the end, there isn't really a way to enforce adherence in an unsupervised environment. You will want to appeal to the students' honesty and academic integrity.
In the end, there isn't really a way to enforce adherence in an unsupervised environment. You will want to appeal to the students' honesty and academic integrity.
In reply to Serena Marangoni
Re: Self-certification or a way to force to watch videos
by Stefan Scholz -
If you’re hosting your videos on Vimeo, you could check out Video Time Pro which offers exactly what you asked for: activity completion based in the watching time.
Another great option is to use the interactive video component of h5p which allows to embed external videos and integrate interactions, e.g. a question.
Best
Stefan
In reply to Serena Marangoni
Re: Self-certification or a way to force to watch videos
by Mohammad Nabil -
you can use h5p interactive video with questions inside it at small intervals , and prevent go on unless answer questions ,
most important , is you care more about outcome , not the way , watching video is the goal or what student will learn from video ?
some student can learn better via reading , why enforce them to watch videos ?
most important , is you care more about outcome , not the way , watching video is the goal or what student will learn from video ?
some student can learn better via reading , why enforce them to watch videos ?