Hi, I wonder whether Populi could be set up to allow students to choose their viewing speed when watching course-related videos. For example, we create demonstration videos for language learning and translation. Some students understand more quickly than others... if they could choose the video speed (e.g., .75, 1.0, 1.25, 1.5) the slower ones would have time to absorb and follow the teacher's demonstration, while the quicker ones could go a little faster. (As one can adjust the speed of a YouTube video.) Is this something you are planning for? Thanks!
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Adam Sentz Ann Maouyo - Playback speed is disabled in the video player's UI because, when a video is required in lesson, Populi tracks time spent playing that video to see if students have met the requirement. If you increase the speed you can watch the video in less time than is understood to be required and be prohibited from moving forward in the lesson.
That said, I think the hotkeys to adjust the speed might still work. If time tracking isn't important in your case it's probably fine to use them. Increase speed is Shift+→ and decrease is Shift+←.
EDIT: Those hotkeys don't work anymore as Populi has changed video players.
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Ann Maouyo Thank you, Adam, I will try the hotkeys and see if that works. Thanks for the quick reply!
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Marianne Vanderboom I'd like to to be abe to increase playback speed of student videos!!
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Marianne Vanderboom And as far as i can tell, the hotkeys do not work.
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Adam Sentz Marianne Vanderboom - Yes it looks like playback rate is not adjustable via hotkey right now. Those were the hotkeys with the video player used in Populi previously.
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Patrick VanDyke Hi Adam Sentz Any plans to add/adjust this? Or have there been any updates since the last posts?I tried the hotkeys, but it was basically just a FastForward type of effect. I think there should be a way to still watch the whole video, while at a rate that is more suited to the student. Having those playback speed options, like youtube, like the original poster stated, would be amazing. Especially as a person with a unique learning style myself. Thanks!
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Adam Sentz Patrick VanDyke - Nothing to report. Time tracking on videos is very important to a lot of people so, if we enabled playback speed adjustments generally, we'd have to disable them when time tracking was being used to track lesson progress. Or we'd have to make a big change to how media time tracking, completion works. Even if an instructor was fine with you watching at 1.5x it would be confusing if the time tracking report said you finished watching a 90 minute video in 60 minutes.
So there's a bunch of extra complexity beyond just enabling it.
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Ginger Devers I am also interested in Populi adopting the playback speed adjustment feature, please.
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