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ATS Ed Tech Spotlight Series: Introduction to PlayPosit

If you're like many faculty out there, you've probably increased your use of instructional videos significantly in the last few years to accommodate remote teaching and the need for increased flexibility to help students succeed in your courses. As more and more of your content is shared through on-demand video, however, you may be concerned that students aren't engaging as actively with their learning as they might in a face-to-face class. Moreover, your students likely have higher expectations of your online course materials now than before the pandemic, even when your classes are being held in more traditional formats and settings. If you're looking for a campus-supported tool to increase engagement in asynchronous videos, PlayPosit might meet your needs.

With the ability to add interactions to the timelines of your videos, PlayPosit is a great way to program active learning into your online activities. With a simple interface and integrations with both Canvas and AggieVideo, PlayPosit offers instructors the ability to create pauses in instructional videos to interrupt students' passive study habits to cue deeper, more meaningful learning with a variety of activities ranging from informal prompts and discussions to more rigorous scored quiz questions. And since PlayPosit is a campus-supported tool, it's available at no cost to you and is backed by the staff at Academic Technology Services, who can help you set up interactive videos for your courses or imagine how to adapt your existing activities for more active learning.

Hosted by the excellent staff from PlayPosit, this month's Ed Tech Spotlight will offer an introduction to the tool's basic features to help you get started in your own courses right away. To join this webinar, be sure to RSVP using the link on our Ed Tech Spotlight Series page, and while you're there, look ahead at future events planned for the rest of the academic year. We hope to see you on October 20 from 1-2pm to discover how PlayPosit can enhance your instructional videos!


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