Why Use PlayPosit?
Are you looking to super-charge engagement for your students? PlayPosit might be the tool for you! PlayPosit is a video engagement platform that allows you to engage your students while watching videos in a way that promotes learning by increasing attention and requiring action from your students. What’s great about PlayPosit is that you can:
- upload videos from many platforms, including 3CMedia, YouTube, Canvas Studio, or your device.
- mix videos, including your own along with curated videos from other sources, into one bulb.
- create your own bulbs, or use bulbs shared by others in your organization or across the PlayPosit network.
- add pre-existing question templates into your bulbs, or create your own.
- customize the controls, allowing students to skip, fast forward, or retry your bulbs.
- make your bulbs accessible, such as adding captions or customizing playback speed.
- add hotspots and pauses to engage your students in deeper reflection as they learn.
- create playlists with mixed media content.
- add jumps to scaffold and customize the learning experience for your students
- embed assignments directly into Canvas and sync them with the Canvas Gradebook.
- use it in both asynchronous and synchronous learning environments.
Best of all, PlayPosit aligns with the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). For example:
- multiple means of engagement by optimizing choice and autonomy through branched learning.
- multiple means of representation by selecting opportunities to customize the display of information.
- multiple means of action & expression by building fluencies with graduated support for practice and performance.
These are just a few ways in which PlayPosit aligns with UDL, and allows you to create engaging and interactive learning experiences that promote learner agency.
What is PlayPosit?
Using PlayPosit and Examples
Below are some helpful links for getting started with PlayPosit.
- PlayPosit for Instructors | for Learners
- PlayPosit and Canvas
- PlayPosit Video Tutorials
- Adding Videos:
- Monitoring Bulbs
- Data + Analytics in PlayPosit (video)
There are many examples of Higher Education Applications of PlayPosit, a few highlighted below:
- PlayPosit (University of Michigan)
- PlayPosit Use Cases (University of Wisconsin – Green Bay)
- Best Practices (NC State University)
- PlayPosit Examples Showcase (University of Arizona)
If you are looking to truly individualize learning for your students, while building learner agency, then branched learning might be a great option for you!
There are many ways to create branched learning bulbs in PlayPosit to engage your students by offering choice, scaffolding, and flexibility:
- Polls interaction for branched learning
- Button + hotspot for branched learning
- Table of contents for branched learning
- Branched learning based on learners’ prior knowledge
Getting Help with PlayPosit
PlayPosit has a wealth of resources to support you which can be found on their Customer Resource Page. If you prefer or need one-on-one support, there are a few options from PlayPosit:
- CCC Tech Connect @ PlayPosit email: email@example.com
- PlayPosit Instructional Design team: weekly standing office hours (Google Meet link).
- Tuesdays @ 11:30 AM ET / 8:30 AM PT
- Thursdays @ 3:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM PT