PlayPosit in Canvas

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PlayPosit is an interactive video learning tool that is fully integrated with Canvas. Playposit allows instructors to create activities using videos from Canvas Studio, 3C Media, YouTube, Vimeo, or other video sources. You cannot record/create videos with PlayPosit.

MiraCosta has piloted PlayPosit for several years. As of 2020-21, PlayPosit is now available to all MiraCosta faculty through a CCC system license.

PlayPosit allows you to:

  • Layer a variety of assessment activities within a video, creating a quiz with results going automatically into the Canvas gradebook. (Canvas Studio has similar functionality, but with fewer and simpler question types than PlayPosit.)
  • Track detailed viewing analytics for videos

PlayPosit Guides

To get started with PlayPosit in Canvas, follow instructions found in PlayPosit’s Canvas tutorial. In brief: You start by creating a Canvas assignment, selecting the PlayPosit External tool within that assignment, and then selecting the Enter PlayPosit link that should come up.

The Quick Start Guide provides an overview of many aspects of using PlayPosit, along with many links to more detailed tutorials, including some of the following.

Building a Bulb in PlayPosit 3.0

CCC TechConnect – 3CMedia Hosted Video

Assigning Bulbs in Canvas

Monitor Analytics

Playposit in MiraCosta College Canvas

Playposit is an external tool. One of the most common places you will find it is within the RCE (Rich Text Editor).

New RCE

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