Instructional videos are used extensively in teaching and learning. In online courses, video is often the primary method for delivering instruction. One of the key questions on designing and developing instructional videos is how to make them interactive and engage students, as watching videos could be a very passive learning experience for students. A strategy to address this question is by embedding questions within the videos.

Well-designed questions help engage students and turn passive video viewing into active learning. They can also reduce students' cognitive load by breaking down videos into smaller and meaningful segments. Students' learning is reinforced by reflecting on what they have learned, responding to the questions, and getting feedback on their responses. They may also easily review the preceding video to understand the content before continuing.

Instructors may use the aggregated student performance on the quizzes to determine where instruction needs improvement.

Katura In-Video Quizzes is best used for embedding low-stake assessment or self-assessment questions within pre-recorded videos.

How does Kaltura In-Video Quizzes work?

What can you do with Kaltura In-Video Quizzes?

Embed different types of questions at your chosen point of a video - The following four types of questions are available:
- Multiple-Choice Questions: They allow up to four possible answer choices.
- True/Fale Questions: They can be changed to any question with two responses (i.e., Yes/No).
- Open Questions: They allow students to enter text responses (up to 270 characters long) to on-screen questions.
- Reflection Point: This type of question does not require entering responses and is usually used for students to pause and reflect on a question or a topic displayed on the screen.
Grade questions: Both multiple-choice and true/false questions can be automatically graded when a correct answer is provided. Grades can be sent to the course gradebook when the quiz is added as an assignment. You can access students' responses to Open Questions, but they will not count towards the grade on the quiz.
Provide hints for answer choices: When students do not know which answer they should choose, hints can help students think before they randomly pick one answer.
Provide a rationale for answer choices: Be sure to explain why an answer is correct or incorrect.
Decide how students take the quiz: You can allow students to skip a question or require them to submit an answer before proceeding forward. You can also allow students to change their answers before submitting the quiz.
Decide what results students can see after a quiz is submitted: You can choose to show students correct/incorrect answers of questions, as well as the scores of the quiz.

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Best Practices for Using In-Video Questions

Space questions out as evenly as possible: Keep students engaged throughout the entire video by spacing questions out and placing the last question at the end of the video.
Shuffle answers: Make sure that the correct answer is not always the default choice for all questions.
Provide hints that prompt thinking: Do not give away the answer when you provide hints. Instead, provide hints that prompt students to think and find the answer by themselves.
Always provide a rationale for both correct and incorrect answers: Practice without feedback has been proven ineffective. Telling students that they chose the correct answer is not enough, as their choice of the answer could be a random guess. The feedback that can help students learn needs to explain why an answer is correct or incorrect.
Create a Canvas Assignment to pass grades to the gradebook: When using Kaltura Video Quiz in Canvas, in order for quiz scores to pass to the LMS gradebook, students must launch the quiz from the Assignments tab. If a quiz is launched form a Media Gallery, the quiz score will not pass to the gradebook. Only quizzes launched from Assignments will pass grades.
- How to Create a Kaltura Video Quiz Canvas Assignment
Exercise caution when posting video quizzes to the Media Gallery: In order to eliminate any confusion about scores being passed from Kaltura Quiz to the Canvas Gradebook, is it highly recommended that you do not post any of your Quizzes to the Media Gallery.
Disable Annoto collaboration: It is highly recommended that if you use Kaltura video quizzes that you disable Annoto from the video quiz entry.