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PlayPosit: Facilitating Learner-Made Bulbs for Instructors

Updated on Jun 24, 2024

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In this article, you will learn the basics for creating, assigning and monitoring PlayPosit learner-made bulbs. For an overview of learner-made bulbs, please see PlayPosit: Learner-Made Bulb Experience Guide for Instructors.

Prerequisites

What is a PlayPosit Learner-Made Bulb?

A learner-made bulb will allow a learner to have access to the PlayPosit Bulb Designer to create their own interactive video. All the specifications and access to peer bulbs will be administered by the instructor. The learner can be graded according to the instructor's criteria for their uploaded video with embedded content. Possible use cases include:

Review projects where learners create their own questions on video already seen.
Have learners create their own video and add interactions to increase engagement. This video can then be shared with other students.
Record a learner's presentation and have them reflect on their performance with comments.

1. Creating a Learner-Made Bulb Assignment

1.1. Select Add Learner Made Bulb under Add New Bulb in your PlayPosit dashboard.

Image on the Playposit dashboard. The down arrow to the right of “add new bulb” is selected. Add Learner Made Bulb is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it.

1.2. Name the learner-made bulb (required) and add learning objective/instructions (optional).

image of the add learner made bulb dialog showing the following options in order: name of learner made bulb, learning objective/instructions.

1.2.1. Open and customize Advanced Settings (optional). Select save when finished.

Advanced options include changing the points value, and toggling on/off the following options:

Allow learners to use private video hosts- leave this enabled as it allows students to use Panopto or another video host.
Enable complete/incomplete grading- if enabled learners will automatically receive full points when they submit their bulbs.

Image of the learner made bulb advanced options. Save is found in the bottom right corner.

2. Assigning a Learner-Made Bulb in D2L

2.1. Navigate to your desired module in D2L and select the Existing Activities drop-down menu.

Image of a D2L module showing to select the existing activities dropdown found after the upload/create dropdown.

2.2. Select PlayPosit Interactive Video from the alphabetized list.

image showing to select PlayPosit found near the end of the alphabetized list of existing activities.

2.3. In the PlayPosit Add Activity dialog box that appears, select Set Link.

image of the set link button found to after/to the right of the learn more button.

2.4. Your list of My Bulbs will appear. Select the D2L link found next to the title of your pre-created learner-made bulb.

Image showing a list of my bulbs. Select the D2L set bulb link found next to the bulb name.

2.5. A dialog box will appear asking you to confirm your learner made bulb and select link.

dialog box asking "would you like to link '[bulb name]' as a learner made bulb assignment? Select link near the bottom of the box.

2.6. Success! Your learner-made bulb has been added to D2L as an assignment for your students.

Image of "test" learner made bulb link in the desired module.

2.6.1. The student view will show the link they will select to begin crafting their video.

Image of the learner made bulb from the student perspective.

Shown below is the student experience in the PlayPosit bulb creator. It is very similar to the instructor version.

Image of a discussion interaction being created in the student playposit bulb creator.

Remind students that once they submit their learner-made bulb, they will not be able to make any edits.

Image of submit assignment message a student will receive "you will be unable to edit after submitting. Proceed?" They will select Submit or Cancel.

3. Monitoring a Learner Made Bulb

3.1. Select the learner-made bulb in the D2L course.

Image on D2L, the Learner Made Bulb external link example is shown. It is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it.

3.2. Navigate to Monitor and select to view your learner's status.

Image of the Playposit link box from D2L is shown. Monitor is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it.

3.2.1. Example of the monitor screen

PlayPosit monitor screen showing the class list.

4. Adding a student's bulb to your D2L course

A neat aspect of learner-made bulbs is being able to share student made bulbs with the rest of the course. Follow these instructions to add a student bulb to your D2L course.

4.1. Enter the monitor screen for your learner-made bulb by selecting the link in D2L and selecting monitor.

Image showing the manage link page for the playposit link. Select the monitor button found after the bulb name.

4.1.1. In the PlayPosit monitor screen, select the copy button for your desired student bulb.

Image of the PlayPosit monitor screen showing to navigate to the learn name and select the copy option, the last option after preview.

4.1.2. A window will appear asking if you would like to copy & edit or copy only. Select your desired option. You can also rename the bulb.

4.1.3. The copied student bulb will now appear in your list of My Bulbs.

Image of your playposit my bulbs section showing the newly copied bulb.

4.1.4. Navigate back to your D2L module where you would like to share the student's bulb. Select PlayPosit Interactive Video from Existing Activities.