Turn a Video Into an Assessment
Break a recording into chapters and attach questions to each one. Students watch a segment, answer what it covered, and move on — rather than watching forty minutes and being tested at the end.
No credit card required · Upload your own file or embed a link
Watching Is Not Assessing
A video with a quiz bolted on the end tests what a student remembered from forty minutes ago, which is mostly a test of note-taking. Chaptering changes the question being asked: watch this segment, answer these three, then go on. And because most districts run managed Chromebooks with YouTube blocked, QuestionForge will host the file itself — you upload whatever you have, we convert it to something that plays on the device the exam is actually sat on, and write captions from the speech if the file came without any.
How Video Assessment Works
Add your video
Upload a file in any common format and we convert it for you, or embed from YouTube, Vimeo, Microsoft Stream or Kaltura.
Build the chapters
Split the recording into parts, give each one a start and end, and choose which questions belong to it.
Students watch and answer
Each part unlocks its own questions, with captions on by default. Marking works exactly as it does on any other exam.
Built for Assessment, Not Just Playback
- Host the video yourself, or embed it
Upload a file and we convert and serve it, which is what a school with YouTube blocked actually needs. Where you already have somewhere to put video, embedding from YouTube, Vimeo, Microsoft Stream or Kaltura works exactly as before.
- Converted once, so it plays on a Chromebook
Whatever you upload is re-encoded to H.264 at a profile school devices can decode, and indexed so playback starts immediately instead of downloading the whole file first. You carry on working while it converts.
- Captions written from the speech
If your file carries a subtitle track we use it, because a person wrote it. If it does not, the speech is transcribed and the result offered as captions — labelled as automatic, because they mishear names and technical terms and a teacher needs to check them before an accessibility claim rests on them.
- Questions attached to the part they belong to
A student only sees the questions for the chapter they are on, and that is enforced on the server rather than hidden in the page. Submit is offered at the end of the exam, never at the end of a chapter.
- Forward-only chapters, when the assessment needs them
Stop students going back to an earlier part once they have answered it. It is a setting on the chapters themselves, and off unless you turn it on.
- Everything else an exam has
Time limits, availability windows, accommodations, retake policies and automatic grading all apply — a chaptered exam is an exam, not a separate lesser thing.
Where Video Assessment Fits
Flipped Classrooms
Set the recorded lesson as the assessment itself, and see who understood which part of it.
Compliance Training
Prove a module was watched and understood, section by section, with a record of every sitting.
Language & Listening
Comprehension questions tied to the passage they refer to, with captions available for those who need them.
Skills & Practical Subjects
Assess observation of a demonstration or procedure at the moment it happens on screen.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I upload my own video, or must I use YouTube?
Either. Upload a file in any common format and we convert it and serve it ourselves, which is what schools running managed Chromebooks with YouTube blocked usually need. If you already have somewhere to host video, you can embed from YouTube, Vimeo, Microsoft Stream or Kaltura instead.
What video formats can I upload?
Any common format — MP4, MOV from an iPhone, AVI, MKV, WebM and others. It is converted to H.264 at a profile school devices can decode, and prepared so playback starts immediately rather than after the whole file has downloaded. Long videos take a few minutes and you can carry on working while they do.
Are captions included?
Yes. If your file already carries a subtitle track we use that one, because a person wrote it. If it does not, the speech is transcribed automatically and offered as captions, which are on by default for students. Automatic captions are labelled as such for teachers: they mishear names, technical terms and unfamiliar accents, so check them before a student is assessed on what was said.
Can students skip ahead or rewind the video?
Playback controls are ordinary video controls, and we will not claim a chapter boundary prevents seeking — with an embedded video it cannot. What a chapter does enforce is which questions a student can reach, and that is checked on the server. You can also set chapters to forward-only, so a student cannot return to a part they have already answered.
Does every question have to belong to a chapter?
On a chaptered exam, yes, and publishing will refuse until they all do. A student only ever sees the chapter they are on, so a question in none of them would be invisible, still on the paper, and scored zero for everyone — with nothing on screen to say why.
Can a chaptered exam also draw random questions per student?
Not at the same time. A chapter names particular questions and a pool hands each student a different set, so whether the two overlap would be down to chance — early testing produced students shown an empty first part. Choose one or the other per exam.
Where is the video stored?
In your own tenant, on the storage the platform is configured with. Video reaches students through an unguessable address rather than an open folder, exactly as an exam link does.
Assess What They Watched
Upload a video, break it into chapters, and attach the questions each part deserves. Free to start, and no credit card required.
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