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Within this guide, you’ll find all the resources, best practices, and inspiration you need to get video assessment up and running with Bongo. This is meant to get you started — but come back whenever you need a refresher or additional instruction.
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As you navigate through this guide, remember that it’s interactive. We encourage you to click on things that interest you, watch the short video clips, and zoom in on different elements for a closer look. Take advantage of all this guide has to offer — it will only help you as you gear up to explore and use Bongo. With that in mind, here are some key things to keep an eye out for in the guide.
IMPORTANT GUIDE TIPS:
There are significant gaps between the skills workers possess and the proficiency level employers expect from them. Individuals need skill-building opportunities and timely feedback to close these gaps, but it’s difficult to scale these practices using traditional methods. It’s time to assess competency through a new lens.
Multi-level engagement
Direct video evidence of competency
Bongo's Video Assignments and Virtual Classroom enable experiential learning and soft skill development at scale. With their proprietary video technology and powerful feedback capabilities, these tools provide:
Scalable skill development
Continuous learning opportunities
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ASSIGNMENT TYPES:
Leverage these workflows to create experiential exercises where individuals demonstrate skills, collaborate with their peers, and apply knowledge within a real-world context.
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Individuals answer questions based on a piece of media to showcase comprehension.
Individuals answer questions on the spot within a limited time frame.
Individuals practice, self-assess, and deliver video presentations with supporting materials.
Individuals work together to manage, complete, & submit a group presentation.
WHAT INDIVIDUALS CAN DO:
Because I use [Video Assignments] as a rehearsal tool mostly, students are far more prepared to give their speeches
- Dr. Kathleen Golden, Edinboro University
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Individuals build communication and critical thinking skills as they continuously practice, self-assess, and deliver video presentations.
Create an Individual Project Assignment.
- Elena Grajeda, Pima Community College
With Video Assignments within D2L, we can set up the question structures, we can set up the content, we can have more control over what we want to see and really assess our student learning outcomes.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Create a Q&A Assignment.
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Individuals collaborate synchronously and asynchronously to complete a group activity.
How an individual learns is just as important as what they learn.
Create a Group Project Assignment.
Asking students to demonstrate what they know through meaningful application provides more direct evidence of comprehension.
Individuals answer multiple-choice questions or submit video responses at different points throughout a video.
Create an Interactive Video Assignment.
INTERACT
Conduct polls, facilitate break-out activities, annotate content, and gather feedback to promote engagement.
Provide an online environment for discussion, group work, and additional instruction.
COLLABORATE
Seamlessly connect with multiple parties to provide face-to-face instruction, assessment, and feedback through video.
LEARN
Enable live lectures, training sessions, and other face-to- face activities online in real time.
Are you looking to host a group discussion? Office hours? A live lecture? Enter a name that reflects the purpose of your meeting.
Open meeting invites settings to select specific participants.
Navigate to your scheduled meetings. Here's how!
WHAT
Who
Click to create a new session & you’ll be prompted to input the details.
When
Copy External Link to share it with participants outside of your class that you want to invite.
Input the date & time of your session. Click “Now” if you want to launch it on the fly.
The session will automatically be open to everyone in your course — but that’s simple to change. Click the ellipsis next to your new meeting.
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Click the ellipsis menu and select Launch to start your session. After being prompted to enable your Audio, here’s what you’ll see. Click on the thumbnails below to learn about the key features you should know when you get started!
Click on the thumbnails below to learn how to make individuals active participants, keep them engaged, and assess their comprehension in real time!
Choose between flexible grading options like letter grades, five- star ratings, or customizable rubrics.
Give individuals more insight into their performance and progress through custom content and auto-generated delivery metrics.
Leverage a patent- pending review system to ensure every individual receives the same amount of feedback.
Provide personalized feedback via time-stamped video and text comments.
Enable self-assessment on various assignments to give individuals a chance to reflect on their work.
Video Assignments help evaluators finalize all of the work individuals do with a comprehensive review process. Formative assessment capabilities like self-assessment, personalized feedback, and peer review maximize the potential for improvement, while summative grading options give evaluators a way to assess every individual’s comprehension level.
Both of these activities give individuals an opportunity to see what others do well, reflect on their own recording, and apply that insight to improve going forward.
Post-Submission INSTRUCTIONS - After individuals submit a video, there is also an option to provide post-submission instructions. Evaluators often use this space to provide examples of what a well-executed presentation looks like, or to explain how they want individuals to complete their peer review exercises.
Self-assessment is available on certain Video Assignments both pre- and post-submission. Not only do individuals have an opportunity to reflect on their videos and re-record them in specific workflows, they can also assess their performance against rubrics when evaluators use them for grading.
Because self-assessment gives individuals more control over their learning, they often feel a sense of empowerment.
Auto Analysis transcribes all Individual Project videos, analyzes them, and compiles the data into an easy-to-read report. It also produces scores that signify where an individual’s performance falls within the target range for each metric, but evaluators control whether or not these figures appear through a button in the advanced settings.
Video: Click the camera icon to start recording a video comment.
Promotes soft skill development
After evaluators leave a comment, the feedback syncs to that particular point in time and is viewable by the individual when they rewatch their recording.
Text: Simply start typing the moment you have feedback to share.
Helps evaluators identify potential problem areas faster
Encourages repeated practice & reflection
Auto Analysis is an automated reporting feature that provides deeper insight into an individual’s performance and progress. By generating metrics around rate of speech, speech clarity, use of filler words, and custom content targets, Auto Analysis:
Shortens time spent reviewing content & delivery of submissions
Enables more targeted, streamlined feedback
SyncComments - When reviewers start leaving a comment, the video automatically pauses. Reviewers have two ways to leave SyncComments:
Effective feedback has the ability to improve not only comprehension, but also an individual’s desire and motivation to learn.
Once individuals submit a recording for one of their Video Assignments, reviewers have the ability to deliver personalized feedback and coaching on that submission. All the feedback individuals receive is time-stamped to a specific point within their video, enabling reviewers to point out exactly where their strengths and weaknesses are. We call these SyncComments.
Provide a five-star rating
- Keith J. Topping
Leave SyncComments via text or video
Balanced Peer Review - Video Assignments feature a patent-pending peer review system where individuals receive a set number of peer reviews that automatically populate. This means individuals can’t choose who they review — eliminating the bias that might come with reviewing friends — and ensures every individual receives the same number of reviews.
As students identify facts, errors, and the overall message in a peer’s assignment, they develop cognitive and metacognitive skills such as self-awareness, critical thinking, and accountability.
On every Video Assignment, there is a toggle available to enable peer review, which occurs post-submission. Individuals have many of the same capabilities as evaluators when reviewing their peers. They are able to:
Access rubrics when evaluators use them
Rubrics are completely customizable and can be imported as a CSV file. The system generates a grade from the rubric based on the point values you assign to each category. Regardless of grading type, all scores sync with the gradebook in your LMS.
5-Star Rating
Pass/Fail
Percentage
Along with Bongo’s feedback capabilities, evaluators also have summative assessment options. Just pick the format that suits you best when creating the assignments. You can grade based on:
Rubrics
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WHITEPAPERS Explore the research behind authentic assessment, soft skill development, experiential learning, and more.
If you’re looking for some inspiration, or simply require more technical help as you set up Video Assignments, we have some great resources available for you. Here is everything you might need to get started.
CASE STUDIES Learn how other high-profile institutions leverage Bongo in their courses across a variety of disciplines.
KNOWLEDGE BASE This resource includes videos and step-by-step instructions tutorials that walk you through different elements of Bongo.
DATA SHEETS Discover how Bongo fits within various disciplines such as business, health sciences, language, and more.
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