Adding Quizzes to Your Videos in Canvas Studio and Kaltura
Did you know you can add quizzes and questions to your videos in Canvas?
There are multiple reasons to consider the use of video quizzes:
- Leverage interactivity to promote engagement
- Assess material comprehension and retention
- Collect data about the effectiveness of your media
The following article covers some of the features offered in Kaltura and Canvas Studio, respectively. We will also direct you to resources to guide you through the video quiz setup process, as well as how to link a video quiz to an assignment to create graded video quizzes that update to the Gradebook.
As a reminder, if a student has accessible media as an accommodation (I.e., closed captioning or audio description), this applies to all media used in a course, including video quizzes.
What is a Video Quiz?
A Video Quiz is a quiz that is embedded into a video. Questions can be inserted at any point in the video, and when that point is reached, the video will pause for students to answer the question. Questions can be Multiple Choice, True or False, or Open-Ended (in Kaltura).
(Pictured: Screenshot of a sample video quiz being made. Questions are indicated by the question mark icon on the timeline. Clicking the ‘Add Question’ Plus-Sign button adds a question at the timeline playhead.)
You can use any of your own videos for a video quiz. You can also use YouTube and other video streaming services simply by entering the link into Canvas Studio or Kaltura. (This also removes any advertisements associated with the video.)
For students, activities such as this can help to break up the passive activity of watching a video by adding interactive questions throughout. You can optionally give hints, display the correct answer afterward, or add an automatic rationale for correct and incorrect answers so students get instant feedback.
You can then use quiz reports to give you important insights into your students’ comprehension of course and video topics.
(Pictured: A sample video quiz question in Kaltura. The optional feature allowing students to skip questions is visible.)
Kaltura vs. Canvas Studio
IC offers two ways to create video quizzes in Canvas, Kaltura (media.ithaca.edu) and Canvas Studio (accessed within Canvas at the bottom of the left Navigation bar).
Although the tools have analogous features, they also have some differences, including different supported question types and student experience features. This first section will concentrate on what both tools have in common.
Both Kaltura and Canvas Studio:
- Allow instructors to title and describe their video quizzes
- Offer Multiple-Choice and True or False question types
- Provide automatic feedback for correct and incorrect answers
- Allow answer shuffling
- Offer ungraded or graded video quizzes (with linking to Gradebook)
- Provide various analytics at the student and question level
- Allow instructors to hide questions on timeline
- Allow instructors to give students multiple attempts
- Let you preview your video quiz from the student perspective
The following section will summarize the specific features and strengths of each individual tool.
Kaltura
Kaltura offers Multiple Choice, True or False, Open-Ended questions and ‘Reflection Points’ (a video pause where you can add text for a prompt or other activity).
The settings that are unique to Kaltura include:
- Adding a welcome screen
- Option to allow students to repeat sections or skip questions before submitting
- If students can revise their answers before submitting
- Option to provide hints which students can choose to access individually
- Option to let students download question list before a video quiz
Kaltura has a little more flexibility in terms of the settings that determine student experience. Students can move through the video at their own pace, skipping questions as needed and returning to them before submission. The ‘Open-Ended Question’ and ‘Reflection Point’ formats provide additional options for integrating activities into your media.
Canvas Studio
In Studios, there is a limit of 50 questions per video. Canvas Studio supports Multiple Choice, True or False, and Multiple Answer question types. “Multiple-answer” is a multiple-choice question with multiple correct possible answers.
In Canvas Studio you can vary points by answer. For instance, in a multiple-choice or multiple-answer question with more than one correct or partially correct answer, you could choose to give corresponding partial or full credit depending on which questions students select.
Although Canvas Studio lacks some of the student experience features that Kaltura offers, of the two, it has slightly more sophisticated analytics tools, including high score, low score, and standard deviation for a given quiz.
Analytics
In both Kaltura and Canvas Studio, you can access multiple quiz reports and analyses for video quizzes. The Item Analysis quiz report is shown by default, including high score, low score, average score, standard deviation, and average completion rate. You can get more details for each item by clicking the down arrow in the upper right corner of the question box.
Student Submissions
In both Canvas Studio and Kaltura you can also view individual student video quiz submissions and edit or regrade them (if you set up your quiz to be graded – more on that below.)
In Kaltura, you can also add notes on the ‘open-ended question’-format questions for later review by students, as well as remove students' attempts when grading if you choose.
Graded Video Quizzes that Integrate with the Gradebook
By default, these Canvas Studio and Kaltura Video Quizzes are ungraded. There isa method to create graded video quizzes so students’ grades automatically populate to the Gradebook.
To do this you need to set up the video quiz as an Assignment with submission type “external tool”. Before you start, you will need to have a video quiz created in either Canvas Studio or Kaltura.
The process for this is:
- Go to
- Click the blue + Assignment button
- Add a name and description for this assignment. Edit any necessary details.
- In Submission Type, select External Tool. Click
- From the list, choose My Media if you are using Kaltura and Studio if you are using Canvas Studio.
- Select the video quiz you wish to use. For Kaltura, click the blue Select For Canvas Studio, click Embed, then the blue Select button.
- Save and publish your assignment.
The following is an (incomplete) table comparing various video quizzing features offered by Kaltura and Canvas Studio.
Kaltura vs. Canvas Studio Video Quizzes Features Comparison
|
Feature
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Canvas Studio
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Kaltura
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Multiple-choice
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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True or False
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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Multiple Answer*
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Open-Ended Question
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Reflection Point ~
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Shuffle answers
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Hide questions on timeline
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Welcome screen
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Title/description/instruction
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Allow download of question list before quiz
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Allow multiple attempts
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Give hints
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
(Optional) Graded video quiz with grades update to the Gradebook
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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Allow users to skip/repeat sections before submission
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Feedback on specific questions
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Feedback on correct and incorrect answers, “general feedback”
|
Yes
|
No
|
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Preview the quiz as student
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
* - A multiple-choice question with more than one correct possible answer.
~ - A video pause combined with text
Additional Resources
Visit the following resources to get more information on creating, delivering, and grading video quizzes.
Creating a Video Quiz in Kaltura
Graded Kaltura Assignments
Creating a Video Quiz in Canvas Studio
Graded Canvas Studio Assignment: