IT Services - Insert Quiz Questions into a Kaltura Video

Overview

Kaltura offers the ability to insert quiz questions into videos. When the viewer reaches the question, the video will automatically pause and prompt the user for a response. The responses are saved in the video's analytics.

Everyone can add quiz questions to their Kaltura media, so this tutorial applies to all UCSD Kaltura users (instructors, students, and staff with active directory credentials).

Quiz questions can be added to Kaltura media in both Canvas and MediaSpace.

If you're an instructor using Canvas and want to have your students' scores from the quiz report to the gradebook, you'll first need to create the quiz following these steps and then read our tutorial on creating an integrated Kaltura in-video quiz.

Critical Concepts

Prerequisites

You must have a video that's fully processed. You can only enter the Kaltura video editor (where you add quiz questions) when the video is done processing.
You must be the media owner or a co-editor. Co-viewers and co-publishers can't add quiz questions to someone else's media. You have to be able to get to an entry's "edit page."

Things to Keep in Mind

A new Kaltura entry will be created. Whenever you add quiz questions to a video, Kaltura will automatically create a new entry so the original always stays intact. So you couldn't, say, add quiz questions to a video you've embedded and expect the questions to show up in the embedded video. (You'd need to embed the new video quiz instead.)
Responses are stored in the video's analytics. You can see what all your viewers have submitted by looking at the video's analytics. See our article on finding in-video quiz question responses if needed. Note that if users are answering quiz questions in an unauthenticated environment (e.g. on a public web page where you've embedded the video) their answers will be recorded under the username "Unknown."
There are four question types. Kaltura offers these options:
- multiple choice: asks students to select an answer from up to four choices
- true/false
- short answer: allows up to 270-character responses
- reflection: pauses the video and shows a prompt, but doesn't require the student to input any information
Multiple choice and true/false questions are auto-graded. When you create questions of this type you're required to identify which answer option is correct. When you look at the submissions for each user in the analytics, it will indicate how many questions they answered correctly.
You can only offer up to four answer options for multiple choice questions. You can't have any more than that.
In Canvas, you can create an assignment that leverages a Kaltura in-video quiz and reports scores to the grade book. See our tutorial on creating an integrated Kaltura in-video quiz if you're interested.

Steps to Take

See our video tutorial on adding in-video quiz questions below, or follow the text instructions further down.

There are three main things you have to do to create an in-video quiz:

Enter the quiz editor
Configure your quiz settings
Add your quiz questions

1. Enter the Quiz Editor

Video quizzes can be created in both Canvas and MediaSpace. To get to the quiz editor, start with the column below that applies to where you're creating your quiz.

Steps to enter the Kaltura quiz editor: Canvas vs. MediaSpace
In Canvas	In MediaSpace
Log into Canvas. Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu. Enter your active directory credentials. Within Canvas, click My Media in the left navigation. Locate the video you want to add quiz questions to, and click the pencil icon in its row.	Log into MediaSpace. Go to https://mediaspace.ucsd.edu. Click the profile icon at the top right of the page and select Login. Enter your active directory credentials. Click the profile icon again and select My Media. Locate the video in question, click the kebab on its row (three dots), and select Edit.

Click Launch Editor next to the video preview.
Click the cube-like icon in the left navigation of the editor.
Click Start.

2. Configure Your Quiz Settings

Before adding any questions, you should configure the overall settings for your quiz. You can edit each setting discussed below by clicking the caret to expand its contents. There are three sections you can configure: details, scores, and experience.

Details

Quiz Name will be the name of the video entry in "My Media," and what users will see as its title if you publish it to a Media Gallery. (When you create a quiz, a new copy of the video is created automatically, so you'll definitely want to distinguish the title of the video from its quiz counterpart.)

Show Welcome Message lets you choose whether you want the students to see a screen when they start playing the video that includes your welcome message.

Welcome Message is the message that students will see when they first play the video. The default message is "In this video, you will be given a Quiz. Good Luck!"

Allow download of questions list will allow your students to download a preview of all the questions before they take the quiz. The opportunity to download the quiz is presented with an icon in the upper right corner of the welcome message once the viewer first clicks "play" on the video. The file is a PDF that lists the questions and possible answers.

Instructions, if checked, will display a screen at the beginning of the quiz that tells viewers "All questions must be answered. The quiz will be submitted at the end." For whatever reason, this message isn't customizable.

Scores

Allow multiple attempts lets your students try the quiz more than once.

Number of attempts will only appear if you check "allow multiple attempts." In this field you can enter a number from 2-100.

Show scores / do not show scores is about whether your students will see their score at the end of the video. If you elect to not show their scores, as the text below the option indicates, your students will just see a "thank you" message when they complete the quiz.

Include answers will only be visible if "show scores" is selected. If checked, your students will be able to see the correct answers when they're done.

Experience

Allow answers change, if checked, allows users to review their answers and change them before they submit the quiz.

Allow skip / do not allow skip determines whether students have the ability to skip questions and continue watching the video without answering them.

No seeking forward is only selectable if you've selected "do not allow skip." If enabled, it won't allow students to advance the video beyond what they've watched so far.

3. Add Your Quiz Questions

A screenshot of the "add a question" button. After you've configured your video quiz, it's time to add the questions.

Find the point where you want to ask your students a question. To find that point, you can:
1. Click the play button, watch the video, and pause it at the appropriate moment
2. Click on the timeline to jump the playhead to that point
3. Click on the timecode under the media player and manually type in a timecode in MM:SS format (or HH:MM:SS if appropriate)
When you've found the right moment, click Add a Question within the video preview.
Click on the question type you want to use.
Enter your question details on the following screen.
When you're done, click Save.

A screenshot of the timeline in the quiz editor, with icons for existing quiz questions circled. — Quiz questions show up as little cube icons on the editor's timeline once they've been successfully added.

After you insert the question, a small blue cube icon will appear in the timeline at the bottom of the window. If you want to go back and edit one of the questions you set up, just click that question's icon.

When you're done adding all the questions you want, be sure to click Done at the top right of the Editor.

If you still have questions or need additional assistance, feel free to contact us at kaltura@ucsd.edu.