How to Create an Interactive Video Quiz

Video is the dominant medium for learning and training today, but many are still left wondering if their content is truly being understood. While high-level analytics can point to overall consumption trends, verifying learner comprehension requires a more hands-on approach.

That's where interactive video comes in: turning a passive viewing experience into an interactive one, where the viewer is an active participant with the content. Interactive video lets you enrich a video with in-video questions, action buttons, branching, hotspots, and much more.

By adding questions to a video, you can ensure that the viewer is actively paying attention by making them confirm their understanding periodically. Instead of making them take a quiz after viewing the video, you can put the quiz directly in the video!

It's easy to create a video quiz on Mindstamp. Let's review the two options for creating one:

Option 1: Use the AI Quiz Builder

Our new AI quiz builder lets you turn any video into a quiz in just 3 clicks! Perfect for busy educators and training leads, we use AI to analyze the video content and determine thoughtful questions to space throughout the video to ensure the viewer is understanding the information.

Check out how easy it is:

Simply upload your video, press Create Quiz, choose the number of questions you want, and boom! You've now got up to 10 questions spread evenly across the video, each with a correct answer, that will help the learner stay engaged.

Option 2: Create a Quiz by Hand

If you prefer to assemble the quiz yourself, Mindstamp still makes it simple. Head over to our easy-to-use editor for the video of your choice and look for the question interaction:

Press that button at the time of your choosing to add a question at that time. Then, you can choose from one of our 10+ question types:

• Free Response
• Multiple Choice
• Choose All That Apply
• Dropdown Select
• Number Response
• Date Response
• Video Response
• Voice Response
• Drawing Response
• Image Response
• Rating 1-5
• Likert Scale

Let's add a multiple choice question at 12.3 seconds:

You can see that each answer has an associated action. In this case, we are showing a message depending on how they answer, but additional click actions include:

• Change Time: Move them to a new part of the video
• Switch Video: Switch to a different video, known as "video branching"
• Open Link: Open a new website link for external resources
• Download File: Downloads a file to their device
• Show Image: Display an image to provide further information

… and many more! We have 20+ click actions at Mindstamp, each of which is intended to give you the ability to dynamically personalize the viewing experience based on their actions. You can see the power in moving them around within the video based on their response - they may need to review a section again, or skip a section entirely if they already know the content. The possibilities are endless.

Once we've added our answers, we can set a correct answer (if applicable) and also modify additional settings, such as allowing skipping, repeating the question until they get it correct, setting a time limit, etc. 

When you save your question, you'll see it appear down on the seekbar at the specified time:

You can continue to add as many questions as you like. Once you're satisfied, you can share your video quiz via link or embed code, including embedding in almost any LMS!

Once you share your video, you'll get uniquely valuable data, including a full report everytime somebody watches it including name, location, score, interactions, percentage watched, and more: 

You can export this data, including all scores and interactions, via CSV download, or tie in with our many integrations to send it to your favorite services like Zapier, HubSpot, and more.

Mindstamp is an easy-to-use tool for creating powerful interactive videos with quizzing like we've discussed today. It's free to try and backed by world class support - give it a spin today and let us know if you have any questions!

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