Last updated on February 24, 2025
EduCanon is a tool that makes it possible to Easily create videos with questions, quizzes and multimedia add-ons.
An ideal tool for the inverted class This makes it possible to offer lessons in video integrating moments of control of the comprehension by the learner. EduCanon is an alternative EdPuzzle or Zaption I have already talked about the Tice Tools.
EduCanon therefore allows you to insert questions into a video from Youtube or Vimeo and collect the answers of the students who watched it. You're going like this. turn passive viewing of content into an interactive experience.
Using EduCanon is simple. Just copy and paste the url of the video and then watch it. When you reach a time when you want to ask a question, you will have to click on the ‘Build a question’ button. Write your question, then give possible answers and tick the correct answer. You can also comment on each of the answers. Save, it’s done. Your question is inserted. Simple. You can insert as many as you want.
When the student is going to watch the video, it will pause where you inserted your question and ask them to answer it. After answering it, he will know if the answer is correct or not and get the comments.
Malin, EduCanon forces the learner to watch the whole video to be able to answer questions. No way for him to move the cursor forward to go directly to the questions. In any case, the first time, the next times if the student wishes to repeat the test he will not be restricted and will be able to browse the video as he wishes.
When you create an interactive video, it can be public and shareable via a simple url. In this case, however, EduCanon will not save the answers. More interestingly, you can assign a video to a class. By following a specific link, students will be identified. You will then be able to get real-time information about the video, including who watched it or not and how everyone answered the various questions asked.
All this works wonderfully both on computer and tablet.
Educanon offers an interface in English. It's free.
Link: EduCanon
English
I am very uncomfortable with these full web tools. With functions certainly very well designed. And free.
But first by reading the legal notices http://www.educanon.com/terms you will find that this service is not usable by children aged 13 or under (this is the same limit as FB).
In addition, the intellectual property of what is published is unclear. Your "content" is yours and everything else is in Educanon. Does this mean that all your enrichments belong to them?
Finally, it amounts to hosting all your corpus on this site. What happens if they change their pricing policy? if the site closes in the medium term? if your content is resold under US law?
I did not have time to check if we can export an enriched video but I doubt it …
All this further verifies the adage: ‘if a service is free on the internet, it is because YOU (or your content) are the source of profit’.
Be careful not to give up all our school and university corpus; with the educational enrichments that are our innovation.
Thierry
@tkoscielniak
@Thierry Koscielniak
You are right in principle, but in the meantime you have to start with something. We must start by launching the uses to validate if they are relevant. If the tool is good, it will then be adapted to other media. And it is not a few broken videos that can be lost that will make us hesitate.
Good luck in your innovation work
@thierry Koscienniak
Thank you Thierry. You are right … And it is better to repeat twice rather than all your warnings.
You may have noticed that on this blog I encourage bcp to test. Testing is not adopted. For me, it is a real-time laboratory of new tools to experiment with new pedagogical uses or challenge our practices. Because that is the main thing, it seems to me. The right tools will follow …
I have a reluctance to use a tool that requires students to register, because, on the one hand, students must have limited and separate access to a multitude of tools, but in a certain way they are obliged to register or be enrolled in spaces outside National Education where it is not known what happens to the databases or where they are hosted, which determines the legislation applicable to them. A wonderful tool, however, that we would have liked to have been provided or offered as an official resource.
and beLearner?
http://www.belearner.com/