Welcome to my YouTube channel for The New EdTech Classroom. My name is Sam
Kary and in this video series, I'm showcasing lesson plan ideas, as well as
free technology programs that you can use when teaching your students online.
In this video, I'm going to show you how to use a program called EdPuzzle.
EdPuzzle is an amazing program that allows you to customize the video content that
you show to your students. I know I use video content a lot with my students,
whether in class or during remote teaching. Video is obviously a great way
to help students better understand a topic, but one of the problems I've found
with video content is that it can be challenging to understand whether or not
my students are understanding the material. EdPuzzle addresses this
issue by allowing you to add questions to your video that students have to
answer in order to proceed forward. You can also cut out parts of videos that
you don't want, as well as add your own voiceover. I think EdPuzzle should be
part of every teachers tool kit and I'm really excited to show you how to use
this program. If you find the tips that I share in this video helpful, please hit
the like button, share with other teachers that you know, and consider
subscribing to my channel and hitting the notification bell to make sure you
don't miss any of my weekly updates. Let's look at two examples of how
EdPuzzle might fit within the bigger picture of a lesson plan that I would
use during remote teaching. Here you can see in this lesson plan that I included
a hyperlink to an EdPuzzle video to help my students build an academic skill
about counter-arguments. After they've watched the video, they'll apply that
skill to the topic that they're learning. Here I'm using EdPuzzle as a way to
build my students' content understanding about different Greek gods. EdPuzzle
has three tiers of pricing. The basic version is free to use and it will allow
you to import your class, use all the different features of EdPuzzle, as well
as provide you with some minimal storage. The main difference with the Pro version
is that you're going to get a significant upgrade, in terms of how many
video lessons you can store in your EdPuzzle account. You can also get access
to EdPuzzle Pro as an entire school or as an entire
school district. So now let's jump in and take a look at the most important
features you need to know to get started using EdPuzzle with your students .First
let's talk about how to import your students into your EdPuzzle account.
You're going to want to click on 'My Classes' on the top right-hand side of
the screen. Then on the left-hand side of the screen, you're going to click 'Add New
Class.' You'll have an option to either create a class on your own or import all
your students' names from Google Classroom. Since I'm a Google Classroom
user, I'm going to go ahead and click 'Google Classroom.' Next you'll see a list
of all the Google Classrooms that you have set up. In order to import that
class list, just click on the Google Classroom you want to import and then
select 'Import Classes.' Once you've imported your class, if you click on the
'Students' tab, you'll see the names of all the students that are enrolled in your
Google Classroom, now in your EdPuzzle account. Now let's look at how to
customize a video lesson for your students. You'll want to make sure you're
on the 'My Content' tab, then you'll go to the blue 'Add Content' button on the top
right-hand side of your screen. You'll see a drop down menu and I'm going to go
ahead and choose 'Create a Video.' You'll see here that EdPuzzle is already synced
with several different academic channels. For example, if you click on 'Crash Course'
you'll see that only Crash Course videos come up and if you enter a term in the
search box, it will only look for Crash Course videos about that topic.
Probably the most common channel you'll end up using is YouTube. Since I'm
teaching Greek Mythology, I'm going to go ahead and look for a YouTube video about
Zeus. After you enter your search term, you'll see that you have a bunch of
different videos to choose from. If you already know about a specific YouTube
video that you want to use, you can also just go directly to YouTube, find that
video, copy the link to that video, and then paste it in the search box in
EdPuzzle, so that that specific video pops up. Now
that you've chosen your video, you're going to see that you have three main
customization options. You can cut the video, you can add voiceover to the video,
and you can add questions to the video. When I choose to cut videos, I
usually do that to either just shorten the duration of the video or in the case
of this video, when the video creator is talking just more generally about his
channel at the very end of the video, I'll cut that part out so that my
students aren't watching that part of the video. To cut the video, you can
either drag the time bar to the exact place where you want your cut to begin
or you can enter a specific timestamp where you want to start the cut. After
you hit 'Add Cut,' you'll see that the cut appears in the video layer. To complete the
cut, drag over the area where you want your video to be cut, so that that
section is grayed out. Now let's look at how to add a voiceover. Adding a
voiceover will replace the audio in the video with your own voice. So for example,
you might want to give your own introduction to the video that explains
to students why they're watching the video, rather than use the audio that's
already in the video. In order to add your own voiceover, click 'Start Recording,'
say what you want to say, and then click 'Stop Recording.' Hit the play button to
preview your voiceover and then if you want to get rid of it, you can just hit
the trash can icon. By far the most important part of EdPuzzle is adding
questions to the video. On the 'Questions' tab, you'll see that there are actually
three different types of questions you can ask. You can add a multiple-choice
question, an open-ended question, or you could post a note on a particular
section of the video. The most common type of question that I use is a
multiple-choice question. What I usually do, when making my own questions, is watch
the video and then when something important comes up, I'll click pause and
then select 'Multiple Choice Question.' Here you can see that you can write your
own question, and then after I've written the question, I always like to start with
the correct answer first. When you write your correct answer, you do want to make
sure that the green check is selected next to that answer, so that it is graded
correctly. After you've written your correct answer, you can write some
incorrect answers. After you've written your incorrect answer, make sure that
you've selected the red X. And then to make it a little bit more challenging
for students, you can also add more answer choices by clicking on the 'Add'
button below. You'll see that you also have some different options for how you
could further customize the question that you ask.
You could add additional link that you want your
students to go to or you could also upload a picture. After you finished
creating your question, make sure you hit the blue 'Save' button at the bottom. In
addition to a question, you could also post a note for your students. Your
students won't interact with the note, but you might want to use a note if you
want to draw your students' attention to a particular part of the video or add
some supplemental information that you think your students would need to know.
When creating a note, you're going to have the option to either type it or
click on the microphone to record yourself speaking the note.
Once you've finished typing your note, first click 'Save' and then to move on to
more questions, click 'Continue.' The last type of question
you can add to your video is an open ended question. I usually put
open ended questions at the very end of my video and I might ask my students
something more broad like, "What did you learn in this particular video?" And if
you're ready to assign this video to your students, you're first going to
click on the blue 'Finish' button on the top right hand side of the screen. Now to
actually assign this to my class, I'm going to click on 'Assign.' Here you'll see
you're given the option to select which Google Classroom you want to assign this
video to. Then you can also click a start and end date for this video and you'll
see that the default setting below has 'Prevent Skipping' turned on. With 'Prevent
Skipping' turned on, students will not be able to fast forward through their video
and I'm going to show you what that looks like in just a minute. If you turn
on closed captioning, students will have the option to watch the video with
closed captioning, so I do like to turn this option on. And then lastly if you
select 'Post to Google Classroom,' that will automatically post this EdPuzzle
to your Google Classroom. As I showed in the beginning, I typically embed an
EdPuzzle video into another assignment, so I usually do not post the EdPuzzle video
directly to Google Classroom. Once you're ready to assign the video, click on the
blue 'Assign' button on the bottom of the screen, and then in order to generate a
link to be able to share with your students if you're not posting it on
Google Classroom, you want to click on the blue 'Share Assignment' button on the
bottom right-hand corner. Here you'll see that you have an assignment link that
you can copy and then add as a hyperlink to another
document, if you're using that strategy. Okay now let's look at what EdPuzzle
would look like from the student's perspective. First the student would log
in to Google Classroom, open the assignment, and then click on the link
that will take them directly to EdPuzzle. They'll be asked to sign in with the
same email account that they use to log in to Google Classroom and after they
sign in, they'll be taken directly to the video that you just created. Students hit
the 'Play' button to watch the video and then when they get to the point of the
video for the question you created, it will automatically pop up on their
screen and they'll make their answer choice. If they need to, they can re-watch
the video in order to make sure that they got the answer correctly. After they
choose their answer and hit 'Submit,' you'll see that it automatically grades
it for them and tells them whether or not they got the answer correct or not.
You'll see here that if you selected 'Prevent Skipping' when you created the
assignment, that the student is not allowed to move the video forward
without actually watching it. Next you'll see when a student gets to an open-ended
question, that the question pops up and they type their answer. Once the students
have watched the video all the way through, as well as answered all the
questions, they'll see their final score for those questions. Here, note that the
student got a six out of eight, even though only one question was actually
incorrect. That's because one of the questions is an open-ended question and
the teacher still has to grade it in order for it to count as a right answer.
Back on the teacher end, you can now see how all of your students performed on
the different questions that you asked on the quiz. If you're on the 'My Classes'
tab, select 'Due Assignments,' choose the assignment you want to look at, and then
click 'Questions' to get a bigger picture overview of how your students did on
individual questions that you asked. So you can see that 27 out of 52 students
that were assigned this question got it correct. Note that it's still counting
students who haven't even watched the video yet, which is why in this case, the
number of correct answers looks relatively low in comparison to the
total number of students. Then if you want to take a
closer look at how an individual student performed, go to the 'Students' tab and
then click on a student's name. There you can see their overall grade, the
percentage of the video that they watched, how many correct answers they
got on the video, as well as the overall time they spent on the video and when
they completed the assignment. When you scroll down, you can see how the student
did on specific questions, and then if you asked the student an open-ended
question, you can give that open-ended question a grade, as well as add a
comment. Next to the 'My Classes' tab, you'll see that there's a 'Gradebook' tab
that will give you a bigger picture overview of how your students have done
on all the assignments that you've given them through EdPuzzle. Back on the
student end, when they click on the 'Completed Assignment' tab, they'll see the
final grade that they got on their video. The last thing I want to show you is
where you can find pre-created EdPuzzle lessons. You'll see at the
top of 'Popular Channels' that the first option is EdPuzzle. Here, just like
YouTube, you can enter a search term for a video that you're looking for, and that
will display videos that teachers have already created and chosen to share. The
little icon with a number right underneath the video indicates that a
teacher also already created questions for this video. First select the video,
and then at the bottom right hand side, you'll see that there's an option to
edit it. Here you're given the same choices to cut the video ,to add your own
voiceover, or to add or edit questions. Under the 'Questions' tab, you'll see that
you can select a question that the teacher already created and then if you
want to edit it, you can click on the pencil icon below. Here, just like when
you're creating your own question, you can edit the question or the answer
choices. And once you're ready to assign it, just go up to the blue 'Finish' button
and then you can repeat the process of assigning that video to your students. I
hope this video helped you learn how to create a custom video watching
experience for your students using EdPuzzle. If you have any questions about
how I use EdPuzzle, please ask in the comments below. Thank you so much for
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