June 20, 2024
Create interactive YouTube assignments in Google Classroom more quickly and efficiently, with the help of AI
What’s changing
Last year, we introduced interactive questions for YouTube videos in Google Classroom. Since then, educators have been able to turn a passive watching experience into an engaging one, while improving students’ understanding of a subject.
The current process to create interactive questions requires an educator to manually choose a timestamp, come up with questions, and insert correct answers and distractors. To improve upon this experience and save educators time, we’re introducing AI-suggested questions that educators can easily attach to the video based on its content.
Before assigning the interactive video activity, Educators will be able to edit the suggested questions ahead of attaching the YouTube video to the assignment.
Who’s impacted
Admins and end users
Why you’d use it
This update helps educators add interactive questions to YouTube videos more quickly and efficiently.
Additional details
Even when using the suggestions feature, educators can still edit, remove or create their own interactive questions. Note that suggested questions are only available for certain videos in English.
Getting started
- Admins: In order to enable the interactive questions feature, YouTube must be turned ON by administrators as an additional service for educators. This setting can be managed in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning YouTube on or off for users.
- End users:
- Educators:
- If enabled by your admin, you can create or delete interactive questions for YouTube videos and grade & track interactive questions for YouTube videos.
- Suggested questions are available when you find a spark icon below the video title in the video search results.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about interactive questions for YouTube videos in Google Classroom.
- Students: Students can complete a video activity regardless of whether YouTube is turned ON or OFF as an additional service. Please note that the video activity must have been created by an educator with YouTube turned ON.
Rollout pace
- This feature is available now.
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade