I’m working on a course that uses almost all video. The content’s good, but the client is asking for ideas for making it more interactive. Someone sent me the 21 Jump Street movie site as an example. I know, right? I like how the trailer layered movie trivia questions over the video. I thought this would make a good example so I tried building it in SL. This is what I put together: Elearning Quiz Demo I’d also be interested in what you think the right number of questions per video might be. Most videos will be 1-2 minutes. Thank you!

We need a "Like" button! Thank you everyone for the great feedback! I updated slide properties to pause base layer so now it plays properly. The airport clip is silent but it's just a placeholder clip for the "real" project, which is confidential (you know how that goes). The pop up video idea is another one. This project is a little formal but I'll give it a go and share how it turns out. Thank you everyone!

Hi Gonzalo, The video pausing is really simple, actually. You just click the gear icon and check the pause timeline option. You have to do that for each slide layer. To create the quiz questions on slide layers, I cheated a little by creating one large image for the slide layer, image and questions. I then added four radio buttons and a submit button. The submit button reveals a feedback graphic with the correct and incorrect icons. This solution was super fast for creating the prototype, but not desirable for production work because nothing on the slide is editable in Storyline.

I really like the presentation! I experienced the same as Bruce - the video kept playing in the background while I was working on the question. This will be an issue since you won't be able to control how long a person takes on each question (unless you can pause the video as Bruce suggests). Taking a slightly different tact, are you familiar with the VH1 "Pop-up video" shows? It's basically music videos with pop-up facts either directly or even indirectly related to the video, artist, or something mentioned in the song. So perhaps you could do something similar with your facts and then just include the quiz at the end? (Or is that what your clients were trying to "solve"?) Perhaps breaking up the videos into smaller chunks would work, with the question at the end of each chunk. Using your sample video, you could first stop it at the same point (where the first gentleman puts his bag on the belt) and then phrase the question in a scenario, perhaps like "The screener identifies the following items. Which one is a violation?" And then you would move on to the next section of video, which is an issue with next traveler's items. And, if you have the liberty to inject some fun, you could play a record-scratching or brake-squealing sound with a big WAIT! or HOLD ON! graphic when you stop the video to ask the quesiton. Again, a great start!

Nice work. Agree, getting the vid to pause would help learners understand what you are trying to do. And maybe it's just me, but it seems a light soundtrack is called for. Seems a bit odd to have a normally relatively loud scene (airport) be silent. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool concept. Well done. Adding the scoring wouldn't be difficult either. Great example. Great movie too - I laughed so hard when I watched it. Cheers!

Sharing and seeking: ideas for making videos more interactive

NatalieVan-Dore
Community Member
12 years ago

Hi all, I've been investigating video interaction as well. I was searching for another thread from a while ago, but all I found was the video on YouTube. I'm not sure who the owner is, but here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qptHuxNmk
DavidAnderson
Staff
12 years ago
Bruce is correct. Mike Enders created that version of the interactive video effect.
JuanjoHaro
Community Member
12 years ago
Woa, i like that concept!!!
NatalieVan-Dore
Community Member
12 years ago

I'm having trouble with this interaction. The video is paused, but the timeline continues when I am on a layer. As soon as I hide my layer, the pop ups are out of sync. Here is my example...

https://googledrive.com/host/0B373E6Wz6_17WGlyN3dGT1p2Ulk/

First time using Google Drive, so here goes!
video+markers.story13 MB
MaciejZderkiewi
Community Member
12 years ago

Really nice Montse! Thanks for sharing! Great idea.

Like it and +1
NatalieVan-Dore
Community Member
12 years ago

Here is Tom's thread with a few other examples.

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/convert-your-bullet-points-to-interactive-e-learning-with-video/
AllanCarrington
Community Member
11 years ago

G'day

I am new to Storyline and interactive video with quizzes is very interesting. Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question, but would this work with an embedded feed from YouTube for example as the base layer video? I assume you can embed a YouTube into Storyline like you can with the new Studio13. To be able to deliver a lot of video from a streaming server instead of "loading" it into the Storyline module seems much more efficient. However can you build the interaction over the top of it so to speak. I hope I am making sense.

Regards

Allan
DanielBrigham
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi, Allan: you can create interactive video using youtube sources as well. I've done this with the "naughty bear" mockup where I inserted a youtube video as "video from website." See attached. All sorts of things you can do.

If you are interested in interactive video, you might also find this post interesting. http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/32218/175489.aspx#175489

Especially check out the versions that Matthew and Rebecca tweaked.

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AllanCarrington
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi Daniel

Thanks mate as they say in my "kultcha" in the Deep South. I really appreciate the response. Those resources are helpful and I really should have done more research before shooting off questions - the creative juices were flowing a little fast at the time.

In your naughty bear story i couldn't see anything on the navigation link to the side "web object" I think it said - is that because it is intentional or is it a problem? Please let me try again to define what I am trying to achieve. I need to mention up front everything has to work on tablets especially iPads.

I want to pull in an embedded youtube video of say 10 minutes length into the storyline module - am I correct that it has to be a web object right?

I want it to look like it is part of the module like the excellent airport example that started this forum thread.

In a similar way I want a trigger button similar to the ? question mark button appear on top of the video when specified and it pause the video and the interaction/quiz question appears on top and behaves the same way as the airport security example.

There will also be a time when the choices actually replace the youtube video playing with another one ... would that also be possible?

Finally I might as well ask the question seeing we are on this. Can the responses from the learners be fed by Tincan to a LMS .... I think the answer is yes. DUH of course I have no idea how yet but if all this is possible it is worth working on it. :-)

Thanks Daniel and everyone for the help

Regards
Allan
DanielBrigham
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi, Allan: I forgot to delete the second blank "web object" slide. Sorry about that.

Articulate has put together a very informative blog post and Screenr on inserting and manipulating the behavior of youtube/website videos: http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/how-to-add-a-youtube-video-to-storyline

Two basic ways to insert website vid, and each has certain strengths and weakness which the post above and Screenr make clear. I think it'll answer most of your questions. Let me know how it goes. --Daniel