Before you begin: Because of performance issues, we do not recommend using Kaltura Video Quizzes for important, high-stakes quizzes. We also do not recommend using video quizzes for videos that are 20 minutes long or longer. Consider using PlayPosit instead of Kaltura Video Quizzes if you need a more-robust and customizable video quizzing tool.
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- Kaltura Video Quiz Basics
- How to Create the Video Quiz
- How to Create a Canvas Assignment for Your Video Quiz
Kaltura Video Quiz Basics
The Kaltura Video Quiz feature can be used to embed interactive questions into your videos. As students watch the video, the video will automatically pause at predetermined times and present the student with a question that students can answer right in the video player. Adding an interactive element to your videos can increase viewer engagement and help reinforce key concepts.
Kaltura's Video Quiz feature is integrated into Canvas, so video quizzes can be used as graded assignments. The scores students earn on their video quizzes within a graded assignment will be pushed automatically to the course gradebook. Video quizzes don't need to be assignments and have a grade attached to them; they can also be embedded in any Canvas page—just like any video in your My Media library, so you can embed video quizzes in your pages as a means to add interactivity and increase engagement with your video content.
There are several different question types you can include in a Kaltura video quiz.
- Multiple choice questions: Allow up to four possible answer choices
- True/False questions: Allow two answer choices
- Open Questions: Allow students to enter text responses to on-screen questions
- Reflection Points: Allow you to stop the video and present the students with text of your choice
It should be noted that only multiple choice and true/false questions are graded. You can access the student responses to Open Questions, but they will not count towards the student's grade on the quiz. More information about video quiz scoring can be found in the How to Create a Canvas Assignment for Your Video Quiz section below.
***NOTE: Kaltura Video Quizzes are not designed to work well with long videos. Using Kaltura Video Quizzes with long videos can lead to the tool failing to record student responses.
We strongly recommend keeping your video quizzes less than 20 minutes in length at an absolute maximum. Whenever possible, it is best to keep the length of your videos even shorter than this. If your video content would result in a longer video, we recommend that you break down your video content into smaller, more digestible chunks so it can be delivered in smaller, shorter, separate videos. For example:
- A 30-minute presentation could instead be broken down into three separate 10-minute videos.
- An hour-long presentation could be broken down into four separate 15-minute videos.
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How to Create a Video Quiz
To create a Video Quiz:
- Navigate to My Media in Canvas by selecting Account > My Media in the global navigation menu.
- Select the Add New button:
- Select Video Quiz from the menu that appears.
- From here, you can either use a new video or one already present in your Gallery.
- To upload a new one, select the + Upload Media button in the top right and upload a file from your computer.
- To use an existing video, scroll down through the menu and select the Select > button next to the one you want to use for the quiz.
This will open up a window where you can begin creating the video quiz.
Please note: It may take a few minutes to load, depending on the length of your video.
- The editor will allow you to insert questions into the video at particular intervals using the timeline tool (highlighted in the image below), as well as edit the description and grading information for the quiz.
- To insert a question into the quiz, either play the video with the play button and then pause where you would like to place a question, or select the time tag on the timeline and drag it to the appropriate time in the video. You can use the scale slider above the right end of the timeline to zoom-in on the timeline to help make finer time adjustments.
- With the video paused at the time you wish to insert a question, select the question type you would like to insert into the video.
- This opens a menu where you edit the question and the available answers for it. The specific options will vary depending on question type. Selecting the shuffle icon on the left side of the menu will shuffle the available answer choices. The correct answer for a multiple choice question should be added to the answer field with the green checkmark icon. Selecting the light bulb icon will allow you add text hints to the question as well as explanations.
- Select the Save button in the bottom-right of the menu when you have finished setting up the question and answer choices.
- After the question is saved, a cube icon will appear on the timeline indicating that a question has been created at that time of the video. You can select this icon to edit that question. While editing a question, the cube icon can be dragged along the timeline to change when the question appears.
- Repeat steps 6-10 to add additional questions to the video quiz. If you would like to add multiple questions to the same spot of the video, you must put a slight separation between their positions on the timeline (a fraction of a second is sufficient). Adding questions directly on top of one another can cause a bug where only the last question in the "stack" is seen by students while taking the quiz and other questions in the stack get skipped. Drag the scale slider (located above the right end of the timeline) to the right to zoom-in on the timeline to allow for finer time adjustments.
- It is also possible to edit the video quiz's general settings from this menu. To show the settings menu, select the side panel icon.
There are three primary settings areas: Details, Scores, and Experience.
- Details allows you to edit the name and description of the quiz, and add a welcome message, and allow students to download a list of the questions and possible answers at the start of the video.
- Scores determines whether students will be allowed multiple attempts and whether they will be able to see their scores and the correct answers after completing the quiz. If you choose to allow multiple attempts, you can retain the highest score, lowest score, most recent score, first score, or the average score of all the attempts.
Best practice: we recommend allowing at least 2 attempts, and retaining the highest score earned.
- Experience allows you to edit other settings, such as allowing users to change their answers or skip individual questions.
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When you are satisfied with the quiz questions and settings, select the Done button in the top-right corner of the editor to save your video quiz.
Your video quiz has been saved! Select the Go to Media Page button to return to My Media, or select the Edit Quiz button to make additional changes.
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How to Create a Canvas Assignment for Your Quiz
Your video quiz is now available in your My Media account and can be assigned or shared in any course you want, similar to other Kaltura media. To create a graded Video Quiz assignment in your Canvas course:
- Go to your Canvas course's Assignments page.
- Select the + Assignment button.
- In the Submission Type drop-down menu, select External Tool. Then select the Find button next to the External Tool URL field.
- In the Configure External Tool menu that appears, scroll down until you see Kaltura Video Quiz. Select this option to open your My Media library.
- From here, you can see all of your available video quizzes. Select the Select button next to the video quiz you want to assign.
- After selecting a Video Quiz, the My Media window will close and you will be sent back to the Configure External Tool menu. Select the Select button to confirm your choice.
- Enter a point value for your assignment in the Points field, directly below the Rich Content Editor box.
NOTE: Kaltura treats each gradable question (multiple choice and true/false questions) as equal in value, and will divide the total point value for the quiz by the number of gradable questions. It is not possible for one gradable question to be worth more points than another.
In the example in the image below, the Points field is set to 40, which means that including four gradable questions in the video quiz will make each of them worth 10 points. Having 2 questions in the video quiz will make them each worth 20 points, etc.
NOTE: Open Questions and Reflection Points are not gradable items and will not be factored into your students' assignment scores.
Student scores will be posted immediately to your Canvas Gradebook when a student submits a video quiz attempt.
- Set a due date for your assignment and select an assignment group.
- Select Save or select Save & Publish when you are finished editing assignment settings. You have now successfully linked your video quiz with your Canvas Gradebook, and student scores will automatically be recorded in the Canvas Gradebook as they take the quiz. Remember to publish the quiz so your students can access it and add your assignment to a module to make it easy for your students to find.
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