School of Architecture - PlayPosit
Overview of PlayPosit
PlayPosit is an easy-to-use interactive video tool that enables faculty to transform passive learning materials into active learning materials. Please visit SU's PlayPosit page for key introductory information.
Mirroring the Traditional Face-to-Face Classroom
Passively watching video lectures often misses key components of an in-person class that facilitate student engagement and learning, such as in-class quizzes, exercises, and group activities. PlayPosit helps faculty to create interactive features that mirror the traditional face-to-face classroom, including multiple choice, free response, reflective pause, fill-in-the-blank, polling and discussion forums.
Besides adding a layer of interactive features to lecture videos, faculty can also ensure that students watch lecture videos in their entirety; player settings in PlayPosit offer various video controls.
Easy-to-use Tool
PlayPosit's intuitive interface makes creating the interactive video easy. After going through the steps below and watching the short tutorial video, faculty and teaching assistants will be ready to create interactive videos for classes.
How to Create Interactive Videos in PlayPosit
This 5-minute video walks you through the steps on how to create an interactive video, or "bulb", in PlayPosit.
Step-by-Step Guide
PlayPosit School of Architecture Use Suggestions
Below are suggestions for possible use of PlayPosit.
- Lecture Videos: Interactive videos will be most useful for lecture videos to enhance the learning experience for students and improve learning efficacy.
- Multiple choice or short response questions can be added to substitute for in-class quizzes and give immediate feedback to students so they can check their understanding while viewing lecture videos.
- Discussion forum interactive features can be added to facilitate discussion on lecture materials amongst students and faculty.
- Multiple choice or short response questions can be added to substitute for in-class quizzes and give immediate feedback to students so they can check their understanding while viewing lecture videos.
- Review/ Presentation Settings: In group presentation/reviews (studio, theory, building systems, etc.), having questions for discussion in each presentation/review recording can promote peer-to-peer learning.
- Discussion forums can be added to gather other students'/groups' thoughts on the reviews/presentations that other students didn't have the opportunity or time to talk about during reviews/presentations.
- Short response questions can be added to call attention to some interesting points that are worth further thought. In this way, instructors and TAs can also make sure that students still watch others' reviews/ presentations on their own time.
- Discussion forums can be added to gather other students'/groups' thoughts on the reviews/presentations that other students didn't have the opportunity or time to talk about during reviews/presentations.
Additional Helpful Links
- SU Answers page on PlayPosit
- In-depth Guide to Using PlayPosit on Blackboard
- Monitoring Student Performance in PlayPosit
For support or training questions, please contact help@syr.edu or OLS@ot.syr.edu.