Edpuzzle is an app that allows us to download and modify any video from Youtube to turn it into a teaching activity, either to introduce a topic, review it or even test the student’s knowledge on it.
After downloading a video in Edpuzzle, we can cut it, add voice and text notes and set along it a variety of questions for the students to answer: multiple choice, short questions or open ended ones, to make students focus on a particular image, concept or event that has just appeared on the video. Pictures can be also added to enlighten the questions. Now, our video test is ready to be used.
The process starts by signing up in Edpuzzle as a teacher and creating a group in Edpuzzle for each class, students been given a code to join it , so that they can take any activity developed by the teacher and assigned to such a class. The teacher can either set a due date and time for each assignment to be taken by the students individually at home, or play it in a live mode during the class period. A gradebook will appear for each student and class. For each assignment there is also detailed information on each student’s performance: the time it took to perform the activity, the number of times the student watched each part of the video, the date and hour it was sent… and the teacher can write comments on the answers to the questions, too.
To sum up, it is a good tool to design your own video tests and get them partly graded (just the multiple choice questions).
Here you are some examples of contents developed for the 4th grade in the British Council Programme, and a tutorial on this wonderful tool.
Dr. Mónica Lanero Taboas
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