Training videos that check who was watching
Pause a video at the exact second a concept lands and ask about it. A wrong answer can send the learner back to the part they missed, and new footage can be recorded right here and filed in your Media Library.
At a glance
- Questions at a timestamp
- Rewind on a wrong answer
- Required or skippable
- Seek control
- Chapters and timed notes
Most training teams already own hours of video: product walkthroughs, safety briefings, a recorded webinar that cost real money. The footage is rarely the problem. The problem is that a video lesson counts as complete whether the learner watched it or muted it in another tab.
In LMS Advisor, video sits inside the interactive module builder as its own block. You drop questions onto the timeline, add chapters and short on-screen notes, and decide whether learners may scrub ahead. If the footage doesn’t exist yet, the Recording Studio captures camera, screen, both at once or a whiteboard from the browser and saves it to your Media Library.
Why video lessons get skipped
Completion that proves nothing
A video lesson marked done tells you the file played, not that anyone looked at it. Auditors have started to notice.
Dragging the slider to the end
On an ordinary player, a learner who wants the green tick skips to the last ten seconds. Every LMS admin has seen it.
Knowledge checks that arrive too late
A quiz after a long video tests memory of the whole thing. The misunderstanding happened early, and nobody went back.
A different tool for every recording
Screen recorder, webcam app, an editor to join them, then an upload. Subject-matter experts give up halfway.
What you can put on the timeline
The Video block in the module builder turns an MP4 or WebM file into a lesson that pauses, asks a question and remembers the answer. These are the pieces.
Questions at a timestamp
Up to 20 questions per video, each pinned to a second: multiple choice with up to eight options, or a short typed answer.
Rewind on a wrong answer
Give a question a rewind point and a wrong answer jumps the video back to it. The learner rewatches and tries again.
Required or skippable
Required questions keep the lesson’s Complete button locked until they are answered. Optional ones show a Skip button instead.
Seek control
With seeking off, learners can rewatch what they have seen, but dragging past their furthest point snaps them back.
Chapters and timed notes
Named chapters as jump points under the player, and short overlay notes that show for 2 to 60 seconds without pausing playback.
Recording Studio
Camera, screen, screen plus camera, or whiteboard, from 720p to 4K, with pen, shapes and a laser pointer while you record.
Building an interactive video, setting by setting
Start with a file the platform can control
Questions and seek control need an MP4 or WebM that LMS Advisor plays itself: uploaded, picked from the Media Library or recorded in the Studio. A YouTube or Vimeo link works in the same block but plays as a standard embed, since those players can’t be paused on cue or locked.
Placing questions
Each question has a time in seconds. When playback reaches it, the video pauses and a question card takes over. Multiple-choice questions take two to eight options, and if you mark more than one as correct the learner has to select all of them. Short-answer questions compare the typed response with your accepted answers, ignoring case and stray spaces.
A habit worth copying: place the question a few seconds after the point is made, not at the end of the scene. The picture is still fresh and the rewind target is obvious.
Remediation or one-shot answers
By default an answer is checked once and locked. The same state reappears on later visits, which gives you a clean first-attempt record. Add a rewind point and the behavior changes: a wrong answer isn’t saved, the video jumps back to the second you chose, and the question returns when playback catches up. Use this for the few facts people must get right, like an isolation sequence or a dosage limit. Put it on every question and the video starts to feel like a loop.
Deciding on seek control
With seeking allowed, learners scrub freely and chapters jump anywhere. With it off, the player tracks the furthest point reached. Going back is always fine. Going forward past that point snaps the video back, and chapters beyond it stay locked. For refreshers aimed at experienced staff we leave seeking on. For first-time compliance content we turn it off. Plain video lessons outside the module builder have their own “Allow seeking” switch, plus “Lock until watched”, which holds the Complete button for the lesson’s duration.
Recording in the Studio
The Studio runs in the browser with no plugin. Choose Camera, Screen, Screen + Camera (the camera bubble moves between corners and changes size) or Whiteboard with a white, grid, ruled or dark board, then 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K. 1080p suits most lessons, since 4K files get large fast. There is a 3-2-1 countdown, pause and resume, an optional lower-third title, and drawing tools burned into the recording. Kept recordings upload as WebM to the Media Library and stream only to signed-in users.
See Interactive Video & Recording Studio in a live demo
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From raw footage to a gated lesson
Get the footage
Upload an MP4 or WebM, choose one from the Media Library, or record it in the Recording Studio.
Add the Video block
Drop it into an interactive module beside text, callouts or a drag-and-drop exercise.
Mark up the timeline
Place questions at the seconds that matter, give the critical ones a rewind point, then add chapters and overlay notes.
Set the rules
Decide whether learners can seek ahead and which questions must be answered before the lesson can be completed.
Publish the lesson
Attach the module to a course. Answers are saved per learner and question, and reappear when the learner returns.
Where teams use in-video questions
Safety and procedure refreshers
Film the procedure once and check each critical step as it appears. Get the lockout order wrong and the video rewinds to that part.
Software onboarding
Record a walkthrough in Screen + Camera mode, add a chapter per feature, and ask a short-answer question where new users usually get lost.
Customer and partner academies
Give existing demo videos chapters so viewers jump to what they need, plus optional questions that never block them.
Whiteboard explanations
Work through a formula on the grid board, annotate as you talk, and follow it with a knowledge check in the same module.
What changes once the video asks back
- Evidence that learners engaged with the video, not just loaded it
- Misunderstandings corrected at the second they happen
- No separate screen recorder or editing software to buy and learn
- Recordings kept with your courses and streamed only to signed-in users
- Existing MP4 libraries reused instead of re-shot