How to add templates or reuse interactions in Interactivity?

When building interactive videos in WeVideo Interactivity, users can add pre-formatted templates to the interactive video, which contain pre-built interactions that can be further edited after adding them. Additionally, users can find and reuse all the interactions they created before from the My Interactions option when adding interactions to the interactive video. Please see this article for more information about adding templates and reusing interactions in WeVideo Interactivity.

Template gallery

The template gallery includes a collection of interaction groups with pre-filled information and time codes that can be added to the interactive video. There are two ways to access the template gallery from the Interactive Video Editor.

From the Video Segments tab: After adding the video segments to the interactive video, click the Apply Template button on the lower left corner of the Video Segments tab.

From the Interactions tab: After adding the video segments to the interactive video, switch to the Interactions tab, and click the Open Template Gallery button to access the template gallery.

Instructors can find the following pre-formatted templates from the gallery:

• Learner Feedback: Add a poll question at the end of the interactive video for learners to rate their experience, followed by a free response question where they can provide more detail.
• Learner Notes: Adds a reflective pause in a hotspot at the beginning of the interactive video to teach learners how to use PlayPosit's Notes feature.
• Learner Experience: Add five reflective pause interactions with instructions for finding notes, playback settings, and a reminder to watch until the end to be marked complete.
• Discussion: Add a discussion forum to the sidebar that remains active throughout the entire interactive video, allowing learners to comment at any time.
• Pre/Post Assessment: Add two free response questions in the sidebar at the beginning and end of the interactive video to ask learners what they already know and what concepts they mastered upon completion.
• Summative Assessment: Add four multiple choice questions in the sidebar at the end of the interactive video to prompt learners to reflect on what they learned in this interactive video.
• Checking For Understanding: Adds five stacked free response and poll questions to evaluate learner understanding
• One of Each: A template that contains all of the interaction types, evenly spaced throughout the middle of the interactive video.

To add the template to the interactive video, click the Apply button on the selected template.

Click Apply on the pop-up window to confirm adding the template to the interactive video.

The template has now been added to the interactive video. Instructors can adjust the following settings for the interactions in the imported template.

1. Interaction time: Enter a new time code for the interaction group to adjust when this interaction group will be displayed to learners in the interactive video.
2. Interaction type: Change the interaction type for the interactions in the group. Please note that once the interaction type is changed, the pre-formatted content might also be changed or removed. 
3. Placement: Adjust the placement of the interaction.
4. Content: Click the interaction to edit the content or click the answer options to adjust them.

Template interactions

Template interactions are the interaction type that comes with pre-formatted structures, allowing instructors to quickly build the interaction by adjusting the content within them. Similar to regular interaction types, template interactions can be added in the interactive video at any timestamp.

To add the template interactions to the interactive video, drag the white playhead to the desired timestamp and click + Create New Interaction.

Click the Interaction Type section to expand the drop-down menu, and scroll down to the Templates section. 

Instructors can find the following template options from the list:

• Vocabulary Matching: A pre-formatted fill-in-the-blank question with a word bank and three blanks for learners to match the words from the word bank with their definitions.
   

  

• Table of Contents: Add a table of contents that includes all the video segments and interactions in the interactive video. Users can click on the items in the table of contents to jump to the selected section.
   

  

• Functions Table: A pre-formatted fill-in-the-blank question with three blanks for testing math equations or other concepts.
   

  

• Place In Order: A pre-formatted fill-in-the-blank question with five blanks for learners to enter the order of the items in the question.
   

  

• Auto jump: Add an auto-jump point in the interactive video. When learners reach the auto-jump points, they will be automatically directed to the timestamp set by the instructor. 

My interactions

Instructors can view and reuse interactions they created before from the My Interactions option when adding interactions to the interactive video. To add interactions from My Interactions to the interactive video, drag the white playhead to the desired timestamp and click + Create New Interaction.

Click the Interaction Type section to expand the drop-down menu, and scroll down to the My Interactions option.

All the interactions created before will be listed here, and instructors can use the search bar at the top to search for interactions.

Instructors can also use the Filter tool to filter the interactions by the interaction type, or switch to display question banks created before by selecting the Random Question Banks option from the drop-down menu.

View the interactions from the list, click the check box next to the interactions to select them, and click the Preview Interactions button to preview the selected interactions.

After previewing the interactions, click Add Interactions to add the selected interactions to the interactive video.

User-made templates

Create templates

Create a regular interaction, enter the content, and click Save to save the interaction.

Click the three-dot button on the lower right corner of the interaction and select Save As Template.

Update the template name and click Create Template to save the interaction as a user-made template.

Apply templates

Drag the white playhead to the desired timestamp and click + Create New Interaction.

Click the Interaction Type section to expand the drop-down menu, and scroll down to the My Interactions option.

Click the Filter tool on the top right and change the Type to Templates.

Select the template with the checkbox next to it and click the Preview Interactions button.

After previewing the interactions, click Add Interactions to add the selected interactions to the interactive video.

Copy templates to other users’ My Interaction library

The user-made templates can be shared with other users in the license by allowing them to copy the interactive video with the interactions to their account. Please follow the steps below to share the template interactions with other users.

Click on the thumbnail of the interactive video that contains the template interactions and select the Collaborative option.

Copy the share link and share it with other users in the license.

For users who want to use the interaction in the shared interactive video, open the shared link, click the side zone button on the player, and then click the Copy Interactive Video button on the sidebar.

Rename the copied interactive video if needed and click the Copy & Edit button.

Click the triple-dot button at the lower-right corner of the interaction and select the "Save As Template" button.

Rename the template if needed and click the Create Template button to add it to the My Interactions library.

The interaction is now added to the templates gallery in the account, and the user can follow the steps in this section to apply it to other interactive videos.