Incorporating video into your courses is a great way to engage with your students and increase their access to your course content. Read on for our top 5 tips on using video to enhance your instruction!
1: Use video to capture lectures and other instructional content.
Video can be used to capture lectures and other instructional content allowing students to consume it when it is convenient for them. Both Zoom and Kaltura can be used and are fully integrated into Canvas making it extremely easy for instructors and students to access.
Learn more:
- Kaltura Learning Path for Canvas Users
- Zoom Learning Path for Hosts
- Capturing Instructional Content with Video
- Teaching with Kaltura in Canvas
2: Use video for introductions to build a learning community in your class.
Having students and instructors create video introductions to get to know each other at the beginning of a course builds community and helps to eliminate the feeling of isolation that some students feel. Both the Canvas Discussion Board and VoiceThread can be used to house the videos and are fully supported in Canvas. In addition, both tools allow students to post video introductions and replies.
Learn more:
- Canvas Discussions Overview for Instructors
- Canvas Discussions Overview for Students
- Canvas LTI: VoiceThread
- Canvas LTI: Using VoiceThread for Students
3: Use Kaltura Video Quizzes to encourage engagement and active learning, gather feedback, and assess understanding.
Use a Kaltura Video Quiz to embed multiple choice, true false, short answer, and reflection questions at any point in a video. As viewers watch the video quiz, embedded questions appear at the chosen points. The video continues after each question is answered. Flexible settings allow creators to choose whether viewers can repeat sections, skip questions, revise answers, get hints, and discover the correct answers, allowing Interactive Video Quizzing to be used to increase engagement, test knowledge and retention, gather data, and more.
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4: Use video to provide feedback on student assignments.
Feedback on assignments is critical to student learning, and while feedback has always been part of teaching and learning, using video feedback can be much more impactful than written feedback. Replacing written feedback with short, personalized videos makes it more likely students will interpret the feedback correctly and learn from that feedback. In addition, students are more likely to feel a stronger connection with the instructor. Zoom, Kaltura Capture or the media comment feature in Canvas’ Speedgrader could be used to create video feedback.
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5: Use video to reach all students.
Video is a means to reach all learners. For example, video with captioning and transcripts can help students with accessibility issues, students whose first language is not English, and students who are not familiar with a subject’s terminology. While captioning is required for students with accessibility needs, all students can benefit from captioning and transcripts. Zoom and Kaltura have options for captioning which can be leveraged for the students’ advantage.
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