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Usability Improvements Aug 14, 2015

More natural annotation browsing

Course instructions appearing on every video

Project Owner: Dr. Fred Cutler Designer & architect: Thomas Dang Arts ISIT, University of British Columbia

More natural annotation browsing

S  While watching a video, hovering on an annotation used to seek to that time point and show you a preview on the main video player. But this is not optimal, because you “lose your place” and must rely on your spatial memory, if you watch the video and browse annotations at the same time.

S  Now, a separate floating preview will appear when you hover on annotations while not disrupting the main player.

S  You can then play and play in slowmo on this preview, and the main player will automatically pause to keep your cue.

Annotation Preview Screenshots CLAS native videos or Dropbox

Annotation Preview Screenshots Youtube videos

Annotation Preview Screenshots Mediasite presentations (videos and slides)

Course instruction accessible from every video

S  Before, you can add a common “course instruction” to the

Welcome page that is included in every course in CLAS.

S  However, students need to go back to this page to see the course

instructions, and if there are many videos, it may not be obvious

to students that there is a Welcome page in the first place.

S  Now, if there is an instruction in the Welcome page, that

instruction will appear when you hover on a green banner on top

of the video player, no matter which video you are viewing.

Course instruction reminder screenshot