Quizzes Within Videos - SmartSpot Teachers are using increasingly more videos in their lessons to support self-paced learning, for flipping the classroom, or even for homework. Rather than assign your students another video that will turn into a passive task, make it a graded assignment or quiz using MyVRSpot’s SmartSpot tool! This feature is included with all teacher and student User accounts. With SmartSpot, users can create quizzes in four different question formats, and insert those questions throughout or at the end of your videos. While students view the video, the questions will appear at each [...]

Interactive Multimedia Projects - MediaSpot Webpages are the ultimate way to share oodles of text, videos, images, audio files, documents, and even live streaming channels—but webpages can be intimidating if you don’t have a background in coding. Push those fears away and use MediaSpot. MediaSpot is a MyVRSpot tool that is a drag-and-drop HTML creator and with pre-designed multimedia templates. This tool is available to all MyVRSpot student, teacher, and administrators User accounts. The problem with webpages is that they’re not automatically education-friendly… unless you’re using MediaSpot. These HTML projects can be published online without them [...]

Live Streaming Analytics Is your district reaching your live streaming engagement and accessibility goals? Do you know how many people are tuning in to view your live streams? If you subscribe to MyVRSpot’s Live Broadcasting solution, your streaming analytics are right at your fingertips. Your streaming analytics are quick and easy to access! Either follow this how-to video or go along with these simple steps. First, login to your MyVRSpot account. On the top menu bar, click Streaming and then My Streaming Channels. Next, click the tracking icon located to the right of your Live Streaming [...]

Build a Class Webpage with a Drag-n-Drop Tool Imagine your dream classroom webpage. Does it include a warm welcome video, downloadable syllabi, URL links to weekly assignments, or photos of class events? If you don’t already have this webpage, I’m happy to say that it will be easy to create using MyVRSpot’s MediaSpot drag-n-drop building tool. The elements you can drag-n-drop into your webpage include columns, dividers, text, videos, images, audio, and documents. But there’s more! The Gallery element is similar to a Video Showcase and it displays an unlimited amount of videos. Next, the Playlist [...]

The Future of Video in Education Every couple of years MyVRSpot hosts their Development Summit, with attendees ranging from Teachers and Principals to Directors of Technology, Communications Directors, and Superintendents. The multi-day event is designed as an open forum so attendees can share their thoughts and ideas. While part of the sessions focused on enhancing existing MyVRSpot services, the other sessions focused on exploring what the future of video in education might look like. The main goal of the Summits is to help us lay the ground work for future development, and this year’s [...]

3 Tips to Improve the Accuracy of Closed Captioning When Using Speech-to-Text Captioning Best Practices from MyVRSpot Is poor audio quality or a regional dialect making your speech-to-text closed captioning cumbersome? Spend less time editing your caption files with these solutions--which don’t include changing your regional dialect. Audio Quality The most important factor in the quality of a caption file is the audio of the video. The culprit of poor audio in a video is typically from not using an external microphone. In certain situations it is fine to use the audio input from your camera, but [...]