The Student Experience (3.0)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Note: This article only applies to students accessing PlayPosit 3.0 through a Learning Management System (LMS).
Troubleshooting? Check out our guide here.

Overview

PlayPosit is an interactive video platform. Your instructor will assign videos, or bulbs, for you to watch that will have embedded questions and interactions. You will be required to respond to these interactions in order to complete the assignment.

It is recommended that you use the latest Chrome web browser to access PlayPosit. Click here to download it if you do not already have Chrome.

Logging in

You will access all of your PlayPosit assignments through your Learning Management System (LMS) so you will not need a username and password.

Playing a bulb

When you click on an assignment in your LMS, you will be brought to the PlayPosit bulb you need to complete. Click the video to play it and then answer the interactions that come up.

You can click on the settings icon in the bottom right corner of your screen to:

Make the video fullscreen
Adjust the video playback speed
Change the video stream source of the videos in the bulb (especially important if one of the sources isn't working)
Enable or disable captions (if available)

View transcripts

To view navigable transcripts follow these steps.

1. Enable captions from the settings gear icon menu.

2. Select the sidebar icon.

3. Click the Transcripts tab. Transcripts will appear as the video plays. Click on any transcript line to be brought to that specific part of the video or search for keywords in the transcript. Please note that you are not able to skip ahead if your instructor does not have fast forward enabled.

Taking notes on a bulb

If you need to take notes on the video, click on the sidebar icon, and then on the Notes tab. Type your note in to the bottom of the Notes tab and click the blue icon next to it to save your note.

Each note you make will also save a clickable timestamp that you can use to jump back or forward to the point in the video when you made that note. You can also download a text file of your notes by clicking on the grey download icon at the top of the Notes tab.

Note: Please be aware that teachers can see notes that you save.

Interactions

The video will pause once an interaction pops up on the screen. To complete the interaction, answer the question and click Submit and continue.

You should see a toast in the upper right-hand corner of the screen telling you if your answer was submitted successfully. If the interaction allows it, you may also see highlighting and/or feedback on your selected answer choices If an interaction covers up an important part of the screen, you can hide the question by clicking the 'x' in the top left corner of the interaction. If you want to make the interaction larger, however, click the arrow in the top right corner of the interaction.

Completing a bulb and syncing grades

To complete a bulb, make sure that you answer all of the required questions in the bulb and watch the bulb until the end. When you've completed a bulb, the sidebar will automatically open and show you the assignment score and a green pop-up will confirm your grade successfully synced to your LMS. The sidebar also shows you if your teacher still has to manually grade some of your answers.

Sometimes your teacher may enable retries on a bulb. However, if you click Retry Bulb at this point, your score will be reset to 0 in your LMS's gradebook until you complete the bulb again.

The next time you launch an assignment from your LMS, you should see the option to Sync Grades again from the sidebar by navigating to the Review tab.

Reviewing interactions and previous answers

Students can review their answers at any point while taking a bulb, or after they have completed the bulb by opening the sidebar and selecting the Review tab.

Information about all previously-answered interactions will show up here, including the interaction type, text, and points earned. An interaction will not show up in the Review tab until the player has reached the interaction display time displayed in each row.

Clicking an interaction will return the player to the time at which the interaction occurred in the bulb, causing the answered interaction to pop up. Interaction answers will not be able to be changed unless the instructor has granted access to multiple attempts on one interaction.

If a bulb contains multiple videos, then those individual video segments will also appear in the review sheet. Clicking them will cause the video player to begin playing the bulb from that video clip's start time.

Canvas Mobile App

Note: this is only available to students of instructors with institutional licenses.

PlayPosit is accessible through the Canvas mobile app for learners to view and complete PlayPosit assignments.

1. Log into the Canvas mobile app.

2. Navigate to the course and then click on Assignments.

3. Select the PlayPosit assignment and then click Launch External Tool.

4. Play the video and answer all interactions throughout the video.

5. Once you have answered all interactions and watched the video until the end, a green pop-up will appear confirming that your grade has been synced. Now you can click Done to go back to the Canvas app.

Troubleshooting

In general, if you're having issues on one browser, we recommend that you either update it or switch to another browser. PlayPosit 3.0 generally works best on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.

My bulb won't play

Please refer to this help article for recommendations on getting your bulb to play. You can also try switching your video source by clicking on the gear icon at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and clicking on the drop down menu next to the timestamp.

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My grades didn't sync

If you receive a message that your scores are not being recorded, there could be a number of issues.

Your network connection is unstable or too slow. See if you can connect to the internet through other means.
You've been logged out of PlayPosit. Close the window and log back in to reopen your assignment.
The link you have been sent is for preview purposes only. Request a new link from the instructor.

I can't retry the bulb

You can only retry your bulb if your instructor has this setting enabled. You can go back and access your assignment to watch the video again and view your responses as long as the assignment is still available in your LMS.