Questions inside a video
A short lesson video that stops to ask what just happened. Get it wrong and you can watch that part again.
When to use it
Flipping the classroom: pupils watch at home and the questions make sure they actually did. A science lesson built around a short explainer. Revision before a test, where every wrong answer sends them back to the part that explains it.
What makes it this
Built on the Interactive video generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.
- Wrong answer: offer to watch again
After a wrong answer, students can replay the video from this point up to the question and try once more. Until then the right answer stays hidden.
In the builder: Video & moments
- What happens at this moment: Choice
Students pick where it goes
In the builder: Video & moments
Preview
View only — copy it to play.Why do cats act so weird? An interactive video
Watch TED-Ed’s lesson on the science behind cat behaviour. The video stops for a question now and then — answer it and it plays on. Get one wrong and you can watch that part again.
Why the example is built this way
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A question after each part, not at the end.
Put each question just after the part of the video it is about, while it is fresh. Ask about what was just said, so a question never gives away what comes next.
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A wrong answer sends them back.
Give every question a place to rewind to — the start of its part. A wrong answer then offers to replay just that bit, and the question is asked once more. The first answer is still the one that counts.
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Not everything has to be a question.
A pause to think before an explanation, a note that floats past, a choice to see a part again, chapters to jump to and a link at the end keep the video moving without turning it into a test.
Build it yourself
- 1 Open the Interactive video builder and fill in the Video & moments tab.
- 2 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.
Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.