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Tired of students who don't watch your knowledge clips before class? With Interactive Video you can motivate students to watch the required videos. It also promotes deeper learning, social learning and better student well-being.

Make watching videos activating and interactive
Students add annotations directly into the video and others can respond
Add quiz questions directly in the video
Promotes out of class discussion
Overview of participation
Integrated in Canvas

Setting up Interactive video

We made a step by step guide for you how you can set up Feedbackfruits Interactive Video in Canvas and how to use the tool.

Step by step guide

Interactive video | Teacher Perspective

Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Interactive video setup from teacher perspective

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Interactive video | Student Perspective

Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Interactive video setup from student perspective

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Try FeedbackFruits Interactive Video yourself!

Want to try and use the tool yourself? We set up a practice assignment for you to try the tool as a student (make sure you're enrolled in this course).

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Video: 14:19 min. Want to know how to set up an Interactive Video? Then watch this video.

If you cannot find your question here, try to find in the FAQ.

Use knowledge clips

Knowledge clips are short explanation videos. They are mostly used in education as a tool for students to better prepare for class, so that class time can be used for activating learning activities that promote deeper learning. Kaltura can be used to create and share these knowledge clips with your students. On this page, you can read all about how to best use knowledge clips.

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You have a knowledge clip, but now what?

You found or created a knowledge clip that you would like to use in your course, but how to use this best in your education? On this page, you can find several tips.

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Better prepared students

It happens that students come to your class and they didn't do the preparation assignment, like watching the knowledge clips. On this page, you can find several tips how to encourage students to do their preparation assignments.

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Using videos in blended education

VU teacher Roos Haasnoot explains in this video why and how to use recorded videos in blended education.

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Students help each other understanding videos

Want to make watching videos more interactive for your students? With Interactive Video students can help each other and have discussions directly into the video to interact with a low threshold. VU student Charlotte tells you about this learning activity and her experiences with it in this video (5:15 minutes).

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Add questions directly into your video

Want to make watching videos more activating for your students? You can do this by adding questions directly into your video. VU student Charlotte tells you about this learning activity and her experiences with it in this video (7:16 minutes).

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Writing math equations in videos

Want to write on a blackboard in a video for your students? This can be difficult to film, but not when you use a light board. This is available in the pop-up studio and is free to use for all VU teachers. Want to know what it looks like? Watch this example where VU teacher Sophia de Jong demonstrates it for you (3:27 minutes).

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VU-specific FAQ

+ My FeedbackFruits assignment is running, but (one of) my students are experiencing technical difficulties. What do I do?

In every FeedbackFruits assignment is a chat button in the left bottom corner. The VU has an agreement with FeedbackFruits that they give technical support whenever something goes wrong or when you have a question. They can reach the back-end to fix the problem quickly. Students and teachers both can use this, so definitely stimulate your students to use this chat button. FeedbackFruits usually responds within 10 minutes and they are reachable 24/5.

+ If I copy a Canvas course what happens with the FeedbackFruits assignment settings?

If you copy assignments that include external tools (i.e. FeedbackFruits tools), the settings of the external tool will not be copied. To solve this for FeedbackFruits assignments you can choose 'use copy of existing' to copy assignment settings of a previous FeedbackFruits assignment.

+ Can I use my Kaltura/My Media video as a FeedbackFruits Interactive Video assignment?

Because Kaltura/My Media video's are not open access (and only accessable by a password), it's not possible to easily add the link of your Kaltura video in Interactive Video. You will have to download your video and upload it. Want to know how to do this? This is explained in the step-by-step Interactive Video guide in step 11.

Step by step guide on Feedbackfruits Interactive Video

+ Can I upload any content in Interactive video?

No, you have to respect the copyright of the author of the content, please have a look under the Copyright tab.

+ How do I change the language in FeedbackFruits?

Step 1: A FeedbackFruits assignment (Interactive Document, Group Member Evaluation e.g.) needs to be created within Canvas. If you don't have one yet, make a new one. This does not need to be published for the students.

Step 2: Go to this Feedbackfruits assignment in Canvas. In the top right corner, there is an option to open a menu. This is visualised as three dots placed vertically. If you click on these, three options will be revealed: Edit, Share and Preferences. Choose Preferences.

Step 3: Here you will see the option to change the language. You can change this to three different languages: English, French and Dutch. You only need to change the language once: after you have selected the preferred language it will automatically be updated within your Feedbackfruits environment.

The VU privacy statement for FeedbackFruits

The VU has a contract and a data processing agreement with the supplier. These contain all kinds of provisions that prohibit the supplier from using personal data of VU employees and VU students for their own purposes (such as reselling). There are also a variety of security agreements in the agreement about when employees of the supplier may view data (almost never) that enters the application and what the supplier must do to minimize the chance that third parties can view or change data.

Privacy statement

Uploading content = republishing!

In many cases the educational materials you use in FeedBackFruits are copyrighted. Make sure that you have permission to reuse it. You can check if the VU has a license for republishing the specific content with your faculty liaison. More information about copyrighted content is to be found here. And, if you have any other questions on copyright please contact the Educational Resources and Copyright Support Centre or visit their site.

Alternatively, you can choose to link to an URL. In that case FeedbackFruits streams the video and therefore no content is republished.
Recently FeedbackFruits changed the way they handle videos offered via URL. They switched from downloading the videos to streaming the videos. With streaming there is no republising of content.

Do you have a question?

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Rather set up an appointment?

Using a new tool can be challenging and it can take some time to master the new tool. That's why the VU Education Lab offers the possibility to set up your first learning activity using this tool together with an expert, for free. Use this form or send an email to onderwijswerkplaats@vu.nl.

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