I am creating a presentation, where a lengthy video is required to be watched five full and complete times by the user to gain credit for completion of the course. Since it is a long and sizeable video, I am hoping to place it once, and then through the use of variables, be able to track how many times the user has viewed to completion. Any ideas?
This sounds like a great way to torture your users!! ;) Are you embedding the video itself into the course or are you using something like Vimeo to stream the video?
Here's what people will actually do: click Start on the video, then minimize the window and turn off the sound while they go about their normal work. Repeat 5 times. Or, if they're curious and the video holds their attention, they might watch it once. Then they'll just play it silently in the background 4 more times until the counter gives them credit for "watching" the video 5 times.
When you create systems that insult people's intelligence, even generally honest people look for work-arounds. "You can drag a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" applies to learning too. Forcing people's eyes onto content is not the same as helping them learn it.
Why not spend time creating learning that can actually help achieve the outcomes you want to achieve?
I am not sure. The video can be up to 1.5 hours long. I'd like to
have it native to the presentation, but if something that sizeable
will cause issues, then perhaps streaming is the better idea.
The specs for the native video are:
1920x1080 | 29.97 | H264 Compressed
What would you suggest?
I work for a Railroad, and what we are trying to accomplish is to familiarize
engineers with a particular run of track. They must review the same
run of track five separate times for completion of the course.
Terence English
Manager, Multimedia Development
Metro North Railroad
212.340.2753 | 732.682.5601
These singular lengthy videos will be segmented, so that the user cannot just click play and come back in an hour and a half. It will stop after a few minutes, and prompt the user to click to continue.
I work for a railroad. This presentation will help engineers familiarize themselves with their "runs", or territory they must cover. This involves bridges, curves, gate crossings, etc. Viewing it five times is a mandate of the federal commission that oversees us. Helping them to better familiarize their territory and its perils = safety.
You can make all the editorial comments you like about forcing people to view video over and over, or leading a horse to water and what not, but this is more for familiarizing the territory one must cover in hopes of not injuring or killing anyone. It's not forced learning, it's forced familiarity.
So with that, does anybody have insight they could lend in: 1. using embedded video versus streaming for a very video heavy presentation? 2. using variables to tabulate 1-5 complete views of a video?
A video with those specs will be pretty large in file size(over 1GB), as you probably know. Some LMSes don't handle large media well, so you might need to offload that to a streaming service. Do you know which LMS you will be using?
One issue with streaming is that it will complicate your course slightly, as pausing the video with the continue button will most likely need to be done with some javascript code (nothing terribly complex) which is a little different than if the video was simply inserted into the project.
Are your users viewing the course on large screens or do they need to see all the detail provided by full HD video? If not, you might consider a lower video resolution of 1280x720.
I understand now that viewing the video 5 times is a Federal mandate. I was just making a joke initially, and you could see most users dosing off if they had to watch the same lengthy training video 5 times in a row! :)
Yes, it would be fairly easy to track the number of times the user watched the video to completion. Which version of Storyline are you using? Let me know if you need any help.
Here's what people will actually do: click Start on the video, then minimize the window and turn off the sound while they go about their normal work. Repeat 5 times. Or, if they're curious and the video holds their attention, they might watch it once. Then they'll just play it silently in the background 4 more times until the counter gives them credit for "watching" the video 5 times.
When you create systems that insult people's intelligence, even generally honest people look for work-arounds. "You can drag a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" applies to learning too. Forcing people's eyes onto content is not the same as helping them learn it.
Why not spend time creating learning that can actually help achieve the outcomes you want to achieve?
-Ray
Some of the best advice I've encountered...thank you Ray!
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This sounds like a great way to torture your users!! ;) Are you embedding the video itself into the course or are you using something like Vimeo to stream the video?
Here's what people will actually do: click Start on the video, then minimize the window and turn off the sound while they go about their normal work. Repeat 5 times. Or, if they're curious and the video holds their attention, they might watch it once. Then they'll just play it silently in the background 4 more times until the counter gives them credit for "watching" the video 5 times.
When you create systems that insult people's intelligence, even generally honest people look for work-arounds. "You can drag a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" applies to learning too. Forcing people's eyes onto content is not the same as helping them learn it.
Why not spend time creating learning that can actually help achieve the outcomes you want to achieve?
-Ray
I am not sure. The video can be up to 1.5 hours long. I'd like to
have it native to the presentation, but if something that sizeable
will cause issues, then perhaps streaming is the better idea.
The specs for the native video are:
1920x1080 | 29.97 | H264 Compressed
What would you suggest?
I work for a Railroad, and what we are trying to accomplish is to familiarize
engineers with a particular run of track. They must review the same
run of track five separate times for completion of the course.
Terence English
Manager, Multimedia Development
Metro North Railroad
212.340.2753 | 732.682.5601
These singular lengthy videos will be segmented, so that the user cannot just click play and come back in an hour and a half. It will stop after a few minutes, and prompt the user to click to continue.
I work for a railroad. This presentation will help engineers familiarize themselves with their "runs", or territory they must cover. This involves bridges, curves, gate crossings, etc. Viewing it five times is a mandate of the federal commission that oversees us. Helping them to
better familiarize their territory and its perils = safety.
You can make all the editorial comments you like about forcing people to view video over and over, or leading a horse to water and what not, but this is more for familiarizing the territory one must cover in hopes of not injuring or killing anyone. It's not forced learning, it's forced familiarity.
So with that, does anybody have insight they could lend in:
1. using embedded video versus streaming for a very video heavy presentation?
2. using variables to tabulate 1-5 complete views of a video?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Terence,
A video with those specs will be pretty large in file size(over 1GB), as you probably know. Some LMSes don't handle large media well, so you might need to offload that to a streaming service. Do you know which LMS you will be using?
One issue with streaming is that it will complicate your course slightly, as pausing the video with the continue button will most likely need to be done with some javascript code (nothing terribly complex) which is a little different than if the video was simply inserted into the project.
Are your users viewing the course on large screens or do they need to see all the detail provided by full HD video? If not, you might consider a lower video resolution of 1280x720.
I understand now that viewing the video 5 times is a Federal mandate. I was just making a joke initially, and you could see most users dosing off if they had to watch the same lengthy training video 5 times in a row! :)
Yes, it would be fairly easy to track the number of times the user watched the video to completion. Which version of Storyline are you using? Let me know if you need any help.
Thanks,
Michael
Some of the best advice I've encountered...thank you Ray!
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