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jmyrick7
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October 2, 2014
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Video Playback - Need a way to make students watch the entire video without taking away their controls.

  • October 2, 2014
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We want to give our students a good viewing experience for our videos so we'd like to give them playback controls. BUT, we need them to watch the entire video without being able to skip ahead. An ideal situation would allow the user to move to any point in the video, just as long as they have already viewed that portion of the video. Make sense? The only option we have to make sure they are watching the video, is to take away their playback controls.

Ideas?

Thanks,

Jesse

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    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    October 2, 2014

    I Think you're overlooking at least one other option here...

    if you want to ensure that people watch your entire video, make it so darned interesting that they don't want to miss a thing.

    Adult learners tend to resent being forced to watch boring content. Any strategy based on "dictatorship learning" is counterproductive.

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    jmyrick7Author
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    October 3, 2014

    Thanks for that advice Rod. I agree having good content is better than bad content, but having students watch the whole video is mandated by the state.

    TLCMediaDesign
    TLCMediaDesign
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    October 3, 2014

    It is possible if you build your own player in flash if you are using swf output. I;m sure it could be done with javascript in an html situation also.

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