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alveoli
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April 7, 2020
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Interactive Video

  • April 7, 2020
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Due to the COVID pandemic, I am forced to rely on video to be interctive with my students. I have a rather lenghty video of a healthcare procedure and seemed to have things working well until I preview in HTML5.

As I progressed and added about 6 (out of 12) bookmarks - along with my knowledge check questions, the development has become a bit clunky. When I preview my work, the first two knowledge checks (most often) perform as intended. Sometimes I might get three to work and then I get a buffering overlay while the video plays and no other knowledge checks display at the key moment (loss of sync happens quickly). It appears to me to be a sync issue. I'm just asking if anything can be done to improve performance?

 

Is there a way to "preload" things to reduce buffering or should I look for another solution?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    April 8, 2020

    Totally agree with Rod. You can even distribute the video over multiple slides... You didn't specify the size of the video, have created several interactive videos but often in combination with normal slides. One of the reasons: only KC slides are possible, not scored quiz slides. 

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    April 8, 2020

    I realise that Captivate gives you the option of creating interactive video, but it's not always the best user experience.

     

    If this is just one huge video with overlaid quiz questions, then I suggest you need to break up your video into smaller video segments (separate MP4 files) and put each one on a separate slide.  Then add your knowledge check questions as separate slides in between the video slides.

     

    With HTML5 content each slide gets downloaded as you get to it.  Preloading is usually limited to downloading all the background infrastructure required to deliver the content user interface etc. So the smaller the download required for each slide, the quicker it will load.

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    alveoliAuthor
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    April 9, 2020

    Thanks, Rod. I will break the video into smaller clips. I was hoping that the KC questions and results would be included in the SCORM report but it looks like that's not possible with KC items?

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    April 9, 2020

    Knowledge Check slide are not included in the quizzing system variables. But if you use multiple video clips, you can insert real quiz slides in between the video clips. Here is a post explaining the differences between KC slides and normal quiz slides:

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/knowledge-check-slides-tips

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