Google Classroom users can now “turn any YouTube video into an interactive lesson”

Google Classroom has developed a feature for teachers who want to work YouTube videos into their lesson plans. The educational hub is launching “interactive questions” that insert quiz breaks into scholastic YouTube content.

Interactive questions can turn “a passive watching experience into an engaging one,” according to an introductory post shared on the Google Workspace blog. The questions (which can be either open-ended or multiple choice) can be retried if students get them wrong, and teachers can replay a section of the video if they want to reinforce a particular lesson. When a set of interactive questions is completed, instructors receive a set of insights tailored to the performance of each student.

The Google blog post suggests that educators use interactive questions to identify which students need extra help and understand which subjects need extra lessons. School administrators must enable YouTube as an additional service for educators before the questions can be turned on.

YouTube’s integration into Google Classroom comes about one year after the video platform launched a host of features designed to enhance educational content. Some scholarly creators have incorporated YouTube’s quizzes, courses, and distraction-free viewing, but those tools have also become popular among the general public. Quiz-style content is becoming a regular feature on many channels’ Community tabs, and creators like Marques Brownlee and Jay Shetty have embraced the digital course format.

According to TechCrunch, interactive questions have been available in beta since March. Google Classroom is now giving its YouTube integration a wider rollout, which began on December 12.