Questions across the videos

Ask about your students' videos is on the Grades page's Class trends tab. You can ask questions about recorded work or search for exact words in the class's transcripts.

Sources for answers

Ask about your students' videos is on the Grades page's Class trends tab. You can ask questions about the class's recordings and get answers that quote the students' words. The Studio reads completed transcripts from submitted work. Course staff can compare explanations across recordings. They can find examples of students' words to examine.

The words from submitted recordings

Recordings consideredUp to 40, newest first
Transcript statusCompleted
DetailsSpoken words, speaker labels, and times
Explore the sources that the Studio uses when answering a question across the class's videos.

The amount of text that fits in an answer's source material can reduce the number of transcripts included. The Studio includes whole transcripts, starting with newer recordings. Completed transcripts become available after the submitted recordings finish processing.

Ask a question

Ask a question starts a new thread under Ask about your students' videos on the Grades page's Class trends tab. A thread keeps your question and the answers together for later reading. For example, you might ask which students explained the listener's problem in a pitch.

ChoiceWhat it provides
Ask a questionThe answer uses transcripts and includes quoted lines with times.
SearchSearch finds transcript lines that contain the word or phrase that you enter.

Search is useful when you already know the wording you want to find. Ask a question is useful when you want an explanation or comparison across recorded work. Your threads remain private to you.

Answers and quotes

Your answers appear under Ask about your students' videos on the Grades page's Class trends tab. Each quoted source connects an answer to a moment in a recording. You can press the quote to open the player at that time. The surrounding conversation helps you judge what the student meant.

Read the quoted lines before drawing conclusions from an answer. A comparison about students' explanations becomes more useful when you listen to the examples behind it. Those moments can guide your review of an individual submission.