Edpuzzle allows teachers to crop, add questions, create voice over, and make audio notes to almost any video online. Imagine taking a YouTube video you find cropping it down to the segment you want, adding questions to it, share it with your students and have it graded all in one platform. For the free version you can create up to 10 videos that are edited and shared with your students, however, you can always delete old videos you don't need any more to add new ones. Here are some ideas on how to use it in class...
Blended Learning - Create a 5 minute introduction to a lesson using YouTube Video Creator, share that lesson with Edpuzzle and add questions to it so class time is not used giving notes or basic instructions. Students can rewatch the video and retake questions if need be.
Shorten Videos to the segments you need - Have a great video that you only need a small portion of? Use Edpuzzle to crop to the section that you need and not waste time trying to find it over and over again for each class.
Prevent Skipping - To make sure that students watch the whole video make sure to turn on 'Prevent Skipping.' When this is done students cannot mark the video as complete until they watch the whole video. This works even if they switch between browser tabs because the video will stop until the student comes back to the tab where the video is on.
Assessments - Edpuzzle can be used as an assessment piece for your class to check for understanding, exit ticket, or a bell ringer.
Sometimes when you have linked courses in Schoology Edpuzzle might not show for all of your courses. Above is a fix for that.
If you have not enabled grading for Edpuzzle then students cannot see your assignment in Schoology. Click the video above to learn how to fix that.
Above is a quick start guide to configure Edpuzzle to Schoology.
If you want your students to create content in Edpuzzle then check out the tutorial attached.