EdPuzzle Reviews

I can quickly and easily build learning experiences for any video on YouTube - including ones I have made myself!

Fees and limits - but I am lucky that my district pays for premium. I would be lost without it.

Students often engage with video when they will not read text. Controls and reports on student interaction as well as providing feedback from students.

I love that you can embed questions into videos for students to answer to check for understanding.

I wish that other platforms integrated their videos straight into EdPuzzle, besides YouTube and Khan Academy.

I can have students repeat a lesson they otherwise would not have time to do. Repeating lessons allows students the opportunity to go back and self-correct any mistakes or misconceptions.

It is a very creative way to present information. You can use different features to present material. Use a mini-movie, a video, a music video, or other types of video, and the students can interact with it. You can pose questions for comprehension and thought processing. You have complete control of the particulars of the video to review at stopping points. You can also slow it down or speed it up! The students then submit their answers for you to see how they did.

I really can't think of a particular issue that I dislike about Edpuzzle, But Edpuzzle has a set amount of features, but I would like it to perhaps allow the students to be able to create Edpuzzles or create alternate endings of videos. Edpuzzle uses already created videos and has a variety to choose from. Edpuzzle does not use captions automatically.

I am solving the problem of specific comprehension skills. I can stop and start the media at different points to review, or emphasize the content presented. I can also choose other users' videos that they created that are good! I can also share mine.

I love that there is a massive library of already created videos and questions, but I can also make and share my own as well. It keeps students engaged and they can replay one section of the video if needed to answer the question.

Edpuzzle needs to have a way to force students not to fast forward their video, especially if it is the first time the student is watching it.

This allows students to self-check their understanding as they watch a video. It increases attention when they know that they will be assessed along the way.

EdPuzzle has revolutionized how I teach, especially as relates to homework assignments. In the past, it was hard to ensure students were completing an assignment. Now I give that assignment as an EdPuzzle, disable skipping, and insert the questions throughout the video instead of in a worksheet. Student comprehension is WAY up, and cheating is WAY down. 10/10 recommend.

The gradesheet on EdPuzzle can take a few seconds to load, especially if you use EdPuzzle frequently and have a lot of assignments.

It's perfect for homework assignments!

When I use EdPuzzle for my at-home reading, I've noticed tremendous gains in student comprehension and completion. Test scores are up, and my students are less likely to cheat or skim.

I love that you can see how long the students spent on the videos and putting in questions for the students. Great professional development videos.

It can take awhile for uploaded videos to be able to accessed.

When giving students assignments for homework or virtual work, I can easily see their progress and the time they spent on the work.

EdPuzzle has been a wonderful platform to use for remote video sharing to groups of people. There are many features, but by far the best are the data analytics and organizational layout.

Upon assigning a video to a class and setting a due date (and time even), the classroom page will show when the video was last accessed, what percentage of the video is complete, and will store a grade for the video (if quiz questions are added within the video). On that note, the teacher can insert questions within a video for students to answer, and may choose whether the students can skip over sections of the video, or have to stop and pause anywhere before moving on.

The organization is a life-saver. The teacher can store content within folders, and then can assign a video from that folder. EdPuzzle is also connected to other platforms, such as YouTube or Khan Academy, where videos can also be pulled from.

There have been issues with uploading videos directly from my device to the site. I have had to upload videos to YouTube first and then to EdPuzzle, in order to make it work smoothly. There is also limited space to store videos on EdPUzzle without getting the Pro version.

EdPuzzle has been a very good way to show a concept to students via video, while also assessing for understanding with the inserted questions. It is also a great way to allow students to work at their own pace, to stop and pause when needed, or even skip ahead for faster learners, something they cannot do in a regular classroom.

My students are heavily visual, easily distracted, and uniquely diverse; EdPuzzle let's me engage students using audio and visual multimedia while also collecting data on their understanding of the content via embedded questions. I enjoy it, but kids REALLY prefer it!

Creating the content can be time consuming if you opt to use something that's not premade content. Free users can only have 10 active videos.

Benefits include: insightful data updated in real time, compatibility with Google Classroom/ Gsuite, ability to customize content/ trim videos to exclude unwanted content, interest from students.

Edpuzzle is an easy way to provide video content to students while still measuring their comprehension. This can be done with questions that are inserted throughout the video, or at the end. Students can respond with a free-response, True or False, or multiple choice answers. It is also useful to see how much of the video students watched (in live time).

I dislike that Edpuzzle does not work well with Google Classroom. It is not possible to assign an Edpuzzle assignment to select students on Google Classroom, whereas it is possible with Canvas. If Edpuzzle were more compatible with Google Classroom, I would use it more often. It would help me with differentiation in the classroom.

When I was teaching online, it would not have been possible to stream videos or films on Zoom without seriously impacting the bandwidth. However, I was able to use Edpuzzle to post videos for students to view at their own pace. This was useful in that I could select the content I wanted, make modifications and shorten it, and insert questions for check-in as needed.

Ease of use - just upload a video and add your questions or use one that another user uploaded already. You can make changes to existing videos.

I would like to have a full account so I can upload unlimited videos. Also, I would like notifications telling me which students did which assignments.

SO many options for independent work when in person or in zoom!!! Students can work self-directed or with partners, or with the whole class.