What is the crowd's opinion of EDpuzzle?

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I'll start with one of my favourites:

Edpuzzle - https://edpuzzle.com/

Edpuzzle is a website that allows teachers to upload videos, and embed questions, comments, links to the video. The videos can be taken from many different video tube sources like youtube. It allows you to dub over the audio with your own. You can add pauses, and trim and cut the video. It also has a feature such that the video pauses if the students switch to another window. Also, if a student gets a question wrong, you can have the video restart from a place in the video where it talks about the material related to that question.

It has great analytics that show how much of the video the students have watched, how many times they have watched it, and their responses to the embedded questions. They display these analytics in a class summary page and you can go into specific students by clicking their name.

Edpuzzle really fits well with those teachers flipping their classroom since it hold students accountable for watching the videos. It is very simple to use.

Negatives:

• Students do need an account. However, they can use their edmodo or google account to log in.

• In my experience, the app can be glitchy on cell phones.

Overall, I use this with my math classes and am now looking to incorporate it with my Social Studies classes.

One thing that really helped me my first year teaching is using Crash Course in conjunction with EdPuzzle.

I'm not sure what grade you teach, but Crash Course has really high-quality videos on a ton of different subjects. They're better for high school or sometimes middle school because they tend to have a lot of rapid-fire information (which can be both a pro and a con.) You can use the same Crash Course video to make different EdPuzzles depending upon how difficult you want it to be or what aspect of the topic you want to focus on.

EdPuzzle is an online service that allows you to take a video and add multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions, and comments. If you're in a 1:1 school / class, you can have students do it on their devices, or you can play it for everyone. I've done both and it's all great! (But if you're going to do the latter, I recommend making a handout with the list of questions on it so the students can see the question coming up.) It's kind of like taking guided notes.

Different people like different things, but overall my students enjoyed Crash Course and EdPuzzle together!

Dreaming Spanish is the best. You can also find some of his videos on edpuzzle.com with comprehension or other questions added (with varying levels of quality because they are created by teachers using his videos). Some of these are very good and add a reading element or recycle the target vocabulary a bit more, though the whole ethos behind the channel is that it's enough to just watch, enjoy, understand the videos, so take it or leave it.

I teach physics in high school and teach some of my material with the flipped method. My students really like it for learning skills so that they can all come to class and be on the same page for a lab. I don't think they work in a long lecture format.

One absolutely invaluable tool has been EdPuzzle. You connect or upload to a video and then insert questions in-line. The video pauses, the students answer the question(s), then move on. I collect that data to see who's understanding the material. The next day in class, we go over all the questions so the students can (anonymously) see how the whole class is doing and where they are with respect to everyone else.

So videos can be good. Videos done by the teacher and not just a random video are better. Videos with accountability and asynchronous questions are fantastic. EdPuzzle really helps me close the loop.

Of course, the real magic to good flipped teaching is the class time part of it. Now, rather than lecturing to a group -- some portion of which is bored because they're too advanced and another portion is lost because they didn't get it the first time -- I can be a 'coach' that walks around and works with each group or individual. We do several more labs a year, and the students like those the most.

The student reported back to me last night that they were able to log into EdPuzzle after the administrative changes I made to allow cookies from accounts.google.com and EdPuzzle.com in Google Admin to override any settings made by the user.

I'm glad to have this knowledge. I think if I ever want to really lock things down, just blocking all cookies and then adding sites to the allow list will really beef things up....and also be a complete PITA to manage ;)

Yup. Most likely the user blocked cookies. So using Settings -> Reset Settings -> Restore settings to their original defaults on the Chromebook would solve the issue.

I also made some changes in Google Admin to force allow cookies from accounts.google.com and EdPuzzle.com to thwart any future problems like this.

I won't know for sure until I check in with the student tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure problem is solved.

Try https://edpuzzle.com/, it's free for a limited number of videos (but you can always delete the old ones). It records how much time the kids spend watching the video and you can embed questions in it too. It also links with schoology and some other learning platforms. I've had pretty good luck with assigning it as classwork for high school physics this year.

I’ve used https://edpuzzle.com to ask questions within the video and it tracks who actually does it.

I agree about the length of videos—anything longer than 10 minutes and they just won’t watch it unless it’s tied to a concrete grade/product.

Useedpuzzle as a way to ensure students actually watch the videos. I create my own YouTube videos and then upload them to edpuzzle. Edpuzzle then allows me to insert questions into my own videos. These questions are usually very simple to check understanding or sometimes just to check if they were listening. I can now see who actually watches the videos from the grade book. The multiple choice are self graded and I count them. It also has an option to prevent skipping forward in the video. Every YouTube video I make I now turn into an edpuzzle.

https://edpuzzle.com/home

You can choose videos that connect to whatever content you are teaching. It grades automatically and exports grades to your Google Classroom. One of the few free sites to do this. It only does this if all questions are multiple-choice or true/false. Teachers have already created questions for most videos you will find. You can edit what others have done or write your own new questions. You can even edit the length of the video if you only want a certain section. I delete open response questions when I don't want to grade anything, although grading on the site is easy. Choose option to not let students skip ahead. Their help center has excellent explanations on how to use the site and you can find some on Youtube. The free subscription is very good. I like the site so much I'm paying for a subscription. You can create folders for different classes to organize your videos.

Personally, with the DBQ prompts I've practiced with. I address 2-3 excerpts that support my thesis in the paragraph after the introduction. In order to further convey my stance while remaining relevant to to the points made in my thesis, I address the opposing viewpoints, acknowledging their credibility, but simultaneously refuting the points being made with contradictions between excepts, potential bias, etc.

This doesn't necessarily make your argument weaker, but in my opinion, strengthens it by referencing opposing viewpoints and expounding upon why your stance is more sustainable. Whatever works for you though, I would recommend watching Todd and Katie's videos as they have a great format for writing your DBQ and include information surrounding the concern of complexity.

Here's the video I watched: https://edpuzzle.com/media/5eb16e42c0b3c13ef7655e41

Hope this helped, it's a little late for me right now. Good luck on your DBQ writing! Remember, practice makes perfect in this scenerio. Memorize that rubric, create a proper vocabulary sheet, whatever you need to achieve as many points as possible. Whatever you do, have fun with it, you've got this.

Hello, I'm on the same page as you! To teach R&J I'm actually using this program called Edpuzzle (linked here: https://edpuzzle.com/home)

My students' reading levels are pretty low and I cannot trust them to understand it reading indepedently (even in modern English).

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My game plan is to have my students watch each scene, and Edpuzzle creates activities around the Youtube clips by having it automatically stop to answer a question before moving forward. You can also add notes and recordings of your own voice explaining. The students can't finish the video or complete the assignment until they answered all of the plugged in questions.

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Hope this helps!

I'm actually working on building some of these! I work with an ed-tech company (Edpuzzle) and am working on developing clean visual math videos for all concepts (starting with grades 3-5). Check out one example here: https://edpuzzle.com/media/5dba43b1e68b4e40d0a39908

I'd be more than happy to talk more in-depth. Send me a message if you're interested.