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Recipe: Quiz

“I want students to answer questions during the video.”

The video sets up a question and pauses. The choices appear on the video. The student picks one, and the video plays your explanation.

How one question plays

  1. Context

    Your video sets the scene.

  2. Question

    You ask it, or the scene raises it.

  3. Pause

    The player stops on the last frame.

  4. A / B / C / D

    The choices are drawn on the video.

  5. Student selects

    Right or wrong is shown at once.

  6. Feedback

    Your explanation clip plays.

What to film for each question

  • A trigger clip

    The sentence that sets up the question: “You’re checking into a hotel. What should you say?” It plays once and the video pauses at its end.

  • A correct-answer clip

    What you say when the student is right, and why it is right.

  • Wrong-answer clips

    What you say when the student is wrong. One clip for all wrong answers works; one per answer is better.

The question text and the choices are written in the lesson, not filmed. The player draws them; do not put them into the picture yourself.

See the branching recipe for per-answer feedback

Laying it out on the timeline

One question

Quiet around each clip. The player plays one clip to its end and pauses; it never runs on into the next.

speech in your videoquiet

Compose the last frame of the question

The video pauses on the last frame of the question clip, and the question card is drawn over the middle of it. The scene stays visible around the card.

  • End the question clip on a steady, meaningful picture, not on a cut, a fade to black or a blur.
  • Anything the student must see to answer should be near the edges, or established before the last frame.
  • Keep the question to one or two lines and each choice to one line. Three or four choices work best.
  • Vary the position of the right answer between questions.

What students can do with it

  • Answer on the videoWith the mouse or the keyboard, also in theater mode.
  • After a questionStop there, or go straight on to the next question.
  • ScoreA running score for the session.
  • Voice guidance“Choose the best answer.” “Correct.” Spoken by the player.

Test it the way students will use it

Load your lesson in Shadowing Player on the published video and run these before you share it.

  • Three speeds

    Play a few sentences at 0.75×, 1.0× and 1.25×. A boundary that is fine at one speed can clip at another.

  • Three repeats in a row

    Repeat one sentence three times. Listen for a clipped ending and for the first sound of the next sentence.

  • Distant random jumps

    Turn Random on and step through ten sentences. Each one should start cleanly after a jump from far away.

  • Twenty recall items

    If the lesson is for Recall, do twenty in a row. Check that each prompt and its answer mean the same thing.

  • Every quiz branch

    Choose every answer of every question once. A branch nobody clicked is a branch that may be broken.

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