Video-based feedback is a method using video recordings to deliver feedback on student progress or performance. Software workflows can streamline this process, making it easy to record, upload, store, and attach feedback to assignments. Applied thoughtfully, technology has the potential to make course feedback more effective, engaging, and timely.

Why Use Video for Feedback?

• Benefits for faculty include faster grading and enriched feedback. Faculty can grade in much less time, giving more feedback per minute. 
• It is also an opportunity to provide students with more personalized feedback which enhances engagement by being able to virtually bring students' attention to extremely specific areas of their work.  Video-based feedback allows for skill- based learning by providing space to practice soft skills between faculty and class.
• Research shows that faculty tend to give more detailed positive feedback in video form and students feel more open to receiving feedback positively as a result.
• Being able to create a digital log for consistent research feedback could be highly beneficial. Short and consistent feedback for student's research, increases experiential learning, is sustainable and scalable, and promotes adaptability in the research process.

Best Practices

• Keep video feedback short & consistent, making it visually specific, and relating feedback to course or assignment objectives. 
• Lengthy video feedback is counterproductive. A great rule of thumb is less than 5 minutes. 
• Keep the method in which you store your videos consistent. 
• Make video feedback visually specific by providing rich visual context. This will make it easier for the student to understand the changes needed and why. 
• When you provide feedback, make sure that you tie it back to these objectives. Rubrics are helpful for confining video-feedback into structured system and prevents run-ons.  

Get Started

Faculty can record and share video feedback in three easy steps.

Step 1: Record

Choose recording software.
Choose software you are comfortable recording in or that works best for your lecture materials. If you would like an Instructional Designer to assist you in selection, please reach out.

Record in Teams 
Record in Stream
Record in Zoom
Record in Camtasia

Step 2: Store

Choose a storage option

Teams: Teams meeting recordings will be stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, depending on the type of meeting.
Where does Teams store recordings?

Stream: You will find your videos through the Stream navigation bar, go to My content > My videos.
Where does Stream store recordings?

Zoom Cloud: Zoom Cloud is best used for temporary cloud storage, but it is only available for terms when actively teaching.
Where does Zoom Cloud store recordings?

NPS Box: NPS Box has unlimited storage. In addition, it is possible to synchronize your NPS Box drive with Zoom.
Access my NPS Box drive

Step 3: Attach to a Gradable Item

Share video permalink

In Sakai 

When grading an Assignment, add the URL of where the video is stored directly into the assignments feedback box.

Considerations for sharing permalinks outside of Sakai
To ensure protection of student privacy through the delivery process, note the video permissions and length of access for each video being shared. Determine a workflow that works for your course.
 

• Share & Change Permissions in OneDrive
• Managing Recording Storage and Permission in Teams
• Permissions and privacy in Microsoft Stream

Video-Based Feedback Webinar Recording

Thursday, 25 August 2022, 1200–1300

This webinar covered the benefits of video feedback including time-savings and increase of effective communication with students. Participants discussed examples and ways to introduce simple technical workflows to achieve these methods.

Download slide deck (.pdf, 2.4MB)