Hello @healper,
Thank you for all this feedback!
I have noticed on the demo site that the video-blocking feature does have it’s limitations which I am not sure you are aware of.
Just to make sure I understand you here, you’re concerned about the possibility of the student passing the break point’s content in the video without reading them as well as the plugin having no way to enforce the user to watch the pre-requisites.
The plugin was designed as a solution for selling courses, so although your points are valid I don’t see why someone would skip content they paid for.
Since this is a suggestion and not a technical problem, I’ll ask you to take the matter to Github as the plugin developers are most active there.
Cheers!
Hi @healper,
> If you play the video, then skip beyond the break-point (via manual youtube player controls), it does allow you to play beyond without having to flip the card. This can occur at anytime while the video is playing to force an outcome.
That is correct, students can skip beyond break-points. My thinking is that if a student wants to learn the course then it would be beneficial to watch the video and not skip it.
> Additionally, you can just click “Complete” after starting the video- So attention is not required which may be an exploit for students.
There is a setting in the Course settings that will make it so that students have to watch the video to be able to complete the lesson:
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> Here, as you work your way through the lessons, you can skip straight to the advanced section, it wont show you any content, though you can mark it as complete.
I’m not totally sure what you mean here – can you give me an example of what you mean? Thanks!
@babylon1999 – Thank you for the reply! If there are team members/staff who feel the video is skimmable there may be something to consider here as there may not be a pay component. Students (or staff) could “help” other students to just skip then get the answers given to them. At least if it were un-skippable initially then they would watch through it and perhaps get some sort of benefit.
@mikeyarce – Thank you for the reply! In addition to my reply above, there may be an attention/retention angle here- While I agree this is the case for paid courses and how important it is to have engaging content, sometimes the audience may be staff or part of a small team. There would be a benefit of there being an initial un-skippable video initially, then for it to be skippable if they need to recap or relearn a component.
I understand the feature is very granular and you have bigger things to think about but I think it would be useful to many if you’ve already come this far of having an amazing LMS 🙂
Hi @healper
One way to have a video that cannot be skipped is to have it in an Interactive Video block. Here, you can add content that is required. That way, users cannot play the video until they have completed the required content inside an Interactive Video Break Point.
You can read more about the Interactive Video block feature on our site right here.
Hope this helps
