Send a tutorial video to a student
A student is never sent the tutorial itself — they are sent its video, which they download and watch. There are two ways to send one, and they end in the same place: the student's list of assignments. If you want to put a question in front of a student, make it an exercise instead.
First, the video
A tutorial without a video cannot be sent. Make one with Export video — in the studio, or on the tutorial's row in the Library. The video stays with the tutorial for as long as the tutorial exists; exporting again replaces it, and a student who downloads after that gets the new one.
From your list of tutorials
- Open the Teach tab and find the tutorial in the Library, or press Saved tutorials on the tutorials card, which opens the same list on your own tutorials. The Search field and the Label Filter Matrix narrow a long list.
- Press Send to student on its row and choose the student. If it has no video yet, the app says Export the video first and offers Export video instead.
The app says Video sent to the student. when it has gone.
From the student
The other way round, when you are looking at one student rather than at your tutorials: open their progress page from the Teach tab under Students and press Send a video. Every tutorial of yours is listed; one without a video says No video yet — export it first and cannot be chosen. Here you can add:
- Tutorial video — which one. Nothing is sent until one is chosen; the dialog answers Select a tutorial. otherwise.
- Note for student (optional) — a sentence that travels with it.
- Set due date — a day it should be done by, and Remove due date if you change your mind.
Send sends it. The same screen also has Assign drill for puzzles rather than a video.
A homework can carry a video too: add A tutorial video to it. The homework can be written before the video exists, but it cannot be sent until it does.
What the student sees, and what you see
It appears on their Home tab under Set for me, and in their own My Assignments screen, with Overdue marked if the day has passed. They press Download video. Once the whole file has reached them it counts as done: you are told, and the assignment's review says when it was downloaded, or Not downloaded yet. Whether they watched it nobody can know.
Taking one back
On the student's page, Withdraw assignment removes it. It asks first — Withdraw assignment? — because it takes with it whatever the student has already done on it.
What can go wrong
- The student is not in the list. They have not accepted yet, or a parent's confirmation is still outstanding.
- There is nothing to send. The dialog says you have no saved tutorials and points at the studio — write one first.
- The student opens it and it is gone. This video is no longer available. Ask your trainer to send it again. means the tutorial — and its video with it — was deleted after it was sent. Deleting a tutorial asks first, and says how many students have not downloaded its video yet.