PlayPosit: Student Viewing Experience

Updated on Apr 10, 2024

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PlayPosit video viewing will take place on the interactive video platform. Your instructor will assign bulbs, or video to your D2L course that will have embedded questions. In order to complete the video assignment, you will need to respond to the various questions in order to be evaluated for your work.

Note: It's recommended to use Chrome (the latest web version) to access PlayPosit. For more technical details see PlayPosit: Minimum Tech Requirements

Image of a Playposit video screen. In chronological order, the settings box to the right (1), rich text editor (2), captions icon (3), and the notes icon (4) are highlighted in red with an arrow indicating their position.

Which Student Viewing experience would you like?

1. The options that are presented in this area are the Captions, Full screen option, and Settings.

By selecting "settings" a corner options box will appear.

There are 6 sections in the settings box:

1. Audio: Adjusting the volume

2. Speed: Lower or fasten the video speed

3. Segments: Video segments

4. Video: 1080p-240p

5. Captions: None; On

6. Controls Display: Always, Fade

Always: Default section that shows the player controls at the bottom of the video.

Fade: After 5 seconds inactivity the player controls will disappear.

Image of a Playposit video. The bottom right corner has 3 items highlighted in red and an arrow indicating to interact with them. They are captions, full screen options, and settings.

1. The rich text editor is available for discussions, notes, and free response. It has a variety of options to choose from which includes:

Emotes, Audio, Images, Equations, Bold, Italic, Bulletins, and Special characters.

Note: Select the submit button after uploading an audio, video, or assignment. Add any other text and alternative information that you'd like to add with your submission if necessary.

Image of Playposit’s rich text editor. It’s highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to interact with the section.

2. When you drop down the Edit, Insert, Format, and Table options, you are presented with:

Note: Make sure when you are using symbols like < or > (source code feature), add a space before and after so that it's not misinterpreted as an HTML code.