PlayPosit is a Canvas-integrated platform for implementing interactive videos in lessons, courses, and curricula to foster active learning and increase learner engagement.
Some standout PlayPosit video engagement features include:
- Interactive question types
- Create, measure, and maintain engagement with embedded questions like multiple choice, free response, discussion, and more. Perfect for synchronous and asynchronous learning, alike.
- Audience response system
- Present live video lessons and have learners respond to questions in real time from any computer, tablet, or phone.
- Learner-made content
- Empower learners to create their own multimedia and interactive review content with learner-centered creation tools.
- Course creation
- Create standalone courses and tailor interactive content to different classes, trainings, and learning styles. Then, repurpose that content year-over-year to scale and save time for your instructional design team.
- Actionable analytics
- Use PlayPosit’s real-time analytics to understand how learners engage with material and retain concepts.
How to Access PlayPosit
Instructors
Follow the steps below to add PlayPosit to your course and begin building a Bulb (interactive video).
- Login to Canvas and navigate to the course you would like to connect to PlayPosit.
- Enter "PlayPosit Setup" in the Assignment Name(A) field.
- Scroll down to Submission Type(B).
- Check the Load This Tool In a New Tab(C) box
- Select External Tool(D)
- Find and select PlayPosit from the pop-up menu(E)
- A pop-up will appear. Click Enter PlayPosit.
- You have now authenticated into your PlayPosit account. You can now search through the premade Bulb library or begin building your own Bulbs with new or existing video.
Students
You will access all of your PlayPosit assignments through Canvas, so you will not need a username and password. When you click on an assignment in your LMS, you will be brought to the PlayPosit Bulb you need to complete. Click the video to play it, and then answer the interactions that come up.
Guides/Tutorials
Instructors
- Navigating PlayPosit
- Creating a class and adding users in PlayPosit
- Adding new classes in PlayPosit
- What is a Bulb?
- Building a Bulb in PlayPosit 3.0
- Building Bulbs with dual stream content using Kaltura
- Building Bulbs with dual stream content manually
- Bulb settings
- How to create a graded Canvas assignment
- How to create a non-graded Canvas assignment
- Sharing and copying Bulbs
- How to unlink/relink Bulbs in an LMS
- Learner made Bulbs
- Monitoring Bulbs in PlayPosit 3.0
- Managing your content
- Collaborating with other instructors
- Automated Grading
- How to view data and grade interactions manually
- Understanding the activity feed
- Additional instructor guides
PlayPosit FAQs
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Why is my Bulb not playing correctly?
Why is my Bulb not playing correctly?
For issues with Bulb playback, please review the troubleshooting Bulb playback guide.
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How do I reset my password?
How do I reset my password?
To reset your password, please review the password reset guide.
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What are the system requirements for using PlayPosit?
What are the system requirements for using PlayPosit?
When using PlayPosit, please ensure that you have a strong and stable internet connection. The best browser to use with PlayPosit is the latest released version of Google Chrome. PlayPosit also works well with Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge. Please make sure to enable third party cookies in your web browser for the best experience. To learn more about system requirements when using PlayPosit, you can review the system requirements guide.
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What videos are supported with PlayPosit?
What videos are supported with PlayPosit?
You can create new videos within PlayPosit, use existing videos from Kaltura or YouTube, as well as upload most common video file formats.
Technical Support
PlayPosit Status Page: Check to see if there are any known system wide issues that would explain your issue.
To submit a ticket to PlayPosit, visit the PlayPosit Support webpage, and select “Contact” in the top right-hand corner.
Privacy & Accessibility
With Perusall, an online social annotation platform, you can increase student engagement, collaboration, and community within your course. Plus, Perusall works with your favorite course content including books, articles, web pages, videos, podcasts, and images.
How to Access
Instructors
Faculty can access Perusall by adding the link to their Canvas course navigation.
Students
Students can access Perusall through the Course navigation link inside their Canvas course.
Pricing
Students can purchase books from the Perusall Catalog directly through Perusall or the bookstore.
Review the Perusall Catalog.
Guides
FAQ
Instructors
Technical Support
Privacy & Accessibility
MATLAB Grader is a browser-based authoring environment for creating and sharing MATLAB coding problems and assessments in UAB Canvas. Create interactive course assignments, automatically grade student work and provide feedback, and run your assignments in Canvas.
How to Access MATLAB Grader
Instructors
MatLab Grader is accessible as an External tool assignment when creating assignments.
Guides/Tutorials
FAQ
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Can I access the desktop version of Matlab?
UAB faculty, staff and students can download the desktop version of MatLab from UAB’s Mathworks portal. If you get a “You are not permitted to use this license” error please submit a ticket with UAB AskIT.
Instructor Training
Request training with UAB eLearning with in-person and virtual modalities available.
Technical Support
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Check Status Page
MathWorks Status Page – Check to see if there are any known issues before submitting a ticket. Scroll down to the MATLAB Grader - LTI Service section for relevant information.
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Contact MatLab Support
- Ticket
- (508) 647-7000 option 3
- support@mathworks.com
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Ask eLearning
Users who still need help after reviewing the resources on this page and contacting Canvas technical support can request support from UAB eLearning using the link below.
Privacy & Accessibility
Qualtrics LTI by Drieam is a plug-in (LTI app) for Canvas. Using Qualtrics LTI, institutional research professionals, department administrators, and faculty can embed their Qualtrics surveys inside their Canvas course.
Some standout Qualtrics LTI features include:
- No need for students to go to a different page or log in to start taking a survey. Embed Qualtrics surveys as assignments within a course to truly make them feel like a part of their learning experience.
- Leverage Canvas announcements and notifications to direct students’ attention towards the survey. Use Canvas data to personalize your surveys and make it easier to compare results across groups.
- Reward students with points or a check mark for taking a survey.
- Use the full range of survey types – from fully anonymous to personalized.
Note for users of screen readers: letters in parentheses in the instructions below refer to corresponding areas on example images. If you have any questions about these instructions, contact eLearning for assistance.
How to Access Qualtrics LTI
Instructors
- Login to Canvas, click Account, and click Qualtrics LTI in the user navigation. Note: If you are a first-time user, please follow the steps below to access your Qualtrics account. If not, please skip to step 13.
- Click on Click here to authorize on the pop-up window.
- Click on Authorize.
- Click on the dropdown menu to select the UAB Qualtrics domain.
- After selecting the domain, click on Login Now.
- Select Sign in with SSO on the pop-up window.
- Enter UAB in the organization ID textbox.
- Enter your UAB email address.
- You will see a page stating that a link was sent to your UAB email address to finish logging in.
- Go to your UAB email and locate the email sent by Qualtrics (the email subject is Login to Qualtrics), click on Sign In in the email.
- Click on Approve on the pop-up window.
- You will see a page with a message stating that you are now logged in.
- Now you have access to your Qualtrics survey overview page in Canvas. On this page, you can find the following information:
- Survey name. These surveys have already been added to Canvas. You can click on the survey name to go to the details screen of a survey.
- Survey type. Hovering over the icon reveals the name of the type. The “Standard Canvas assignment” type is the type most commonly used. The ‘in-class survey’ type can be used to gather student input/feedback during a live event (such as a lecture). Find more information about in-class surveys
- Linked assignments. Here you can see how many assignments contain the survey. If you - for example - create a small evaluation survey and use that same survey in multiple courses, this number indicates how often the survey is used.
- Status. If the status is 'Unarchived' the survey can be added to any assignment within Canvas. When 'Archived', the survey will remain inside the integration, but you won’t be able to add it to any assignment. This can - for example - be practical when you have a survey that you use for experimenting but don’t want to accidentally add to an assignment.
- Add survey. Click on this button if you want to add a survey to the integration. After clicking on this button, you will be asked to select the survey type (Standard Canvas assignment or In-class survey (QR code)). Then you will see a list with all your Qualtrics surveys where you can select the survey you want to use. If you do not see the list of your surveys and see an error message stating that you do not have API access, please submit an Ask eLearning ticket. This may occur with older Qualtrics accounts.
- Menu. From here you can navigate to other parts of the tool.
- Data fields: If you want to use Canvas data in your survey you can check here.
- Labels: If you want to create labels to tag to your surveys you can manage those here.
- I want to go to Qualtrics: Open your Qualtrics environment in a new tab.
- I need help: Here you can send an email to your organization’s support or find documentation about the tool.
Students
Students can access Qualtrics assignments within a Canvas course. To do so, go to your course list on the Canvas dashboard and select the course you would like to access Qualtrics assignments in.
Once you are in your desired course, open the assignment and you will see the Qualtrics survey on the assignment page.
Guides/Tutorials
Instructors
FAQs
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Do I need to create the survey in Qualtrics before using Qualtrics LTI?
Yes, you will need to log into UAB’s Qualtrics portal, create the survey, then add the survey to your Canvas course using Qualtrics LTI.
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Can I view the survey assignment in the Speedgrader?
Yes, you can view your survey assignment in the Speedgrader, like any other Canvas assignment. More information can be found on the How to make the most of the SpeedGrader guide.
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What would happen if the Submission Type in the survey setting is not consistent with the Submission Attempts in the Canvas assignment setting?
The survey setting will overwrite the Canvas assignment setting.
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What is the notification feature?
The notification feature is optional. The feature allows you to add an announcement and up to five reminders to a survey assignment. Please note the notification feature does not work in combination with blueprint courses or copied courses or assignments.
Instructor Training
Drieam basic virtual training and advanced virtual training webinars, as well as archived webinars, are free and open to all instructors. Group, one-on-one, or virtual training sessions are available for instructors to schedule on the eLearning Training and Support page.
Technical Support
For technical support, submit an Ask eLearning ticket.
Privacy & Accessibility
What to do in Qualtrics before using the Qualtrics LTI tool
Build the survey including survey instructions, questions, answers etc. and make sure to publish the survey by clicking on the Publish button on the survey page (A). Once published, Qualtrics LTI will recognize the survey.
What to do on Qualtrics survey overview page in Canvas
- Click on the Add survey button (A).
- You will see two buttons on the pop-up window: Standard Canvas assignment (B) and In-class survey (C). In-class surveys can be used during lectures where the teacher will provide a QR code to the students. Via scanning the QR code students fill out the survey. Like standard Qualtrics LTI surveys, the in-class survey type can be added to any Canvas assignment. More information on what and how to create in-class surveys can be found on How to use in-class surveys guide. Click on the Standard Canvas assignment button (B).
- You will see all your published Qualtrics surveys in the pop-up window. Check the checkbox (D) next to the survey(s) you would like to add.
- Scroll down to the bottom and click on the Add Survey button (E).
- Once added, the tool will automatically redirect to the survey settings screen.
- Deicide on survey settings:
- Survey grading:
- For anonymous surveys: Select the “No Canvas submission" option.
- For Qualtrics surveys with scoring: Select “With Canvas submission” and “Grade is the percentage of the Qualtrics score.”
- To create a checkmark in the Gradebook or to assign a grade: Select “With Canvas submission” and “Grade is the assignment maximum score” (recommended option for evaluations -> to create the checkmark make sure the Canvas assignment has the 'Complete/Incomplete' submission type). Find more information about grading options.
- Survey submission:
- Limit to one submission: one survey response per learner in Canvas and Qualtrics (recommended option for evaluations & adaptive quizzes).
- Allow submission update: Learner can update their submission in Canvas but Qualtrics will only save the latest submission (recommended option for evaluations).
- Allow multiple submissions: Learner can update their submission in Canvas and Qualtrics will save all submissions.
- Survey grading:
- Set survey setting (F) and then save by clicking on the Save button (G).
What to do in your Canvas Course
- Create a new assignment in your Canvas course.
- In the assignment setting, set the Submission type to External Tool (A) and click on Find (B).
- Left click on the Qualtrics LTI (C) from the list of external tools.
- You will see the surveys added to Qualtrics LTI in a pop-up window. Left click on the survey you would like to add as an assignment.
- Click on Next (D) on the pop-up window.
- You can decide to add notifications (learn more about notifications) to the survey. Once you click on Save (E) the survey will be added to the assignment.
- You will be redirected to Configure External Tool window, click on Select (F).
- You will be redirected to the Canvas assignment settings page. Click on Save (G) or Save/Publish (H) to save this assignment.