Blog In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be releasing a newly designed browsing and viewing experience on ClassHook! We’ve been fortunate to support teachers in over 25,000 schools with making learning more relevant and engaging for students using popular TV shows and movies. Through that process, we’ve learned a lot about how they use videos […]
Author: Alexander Deeb
ClassHook Partners with YouTube Education to Offer Safer, Ad-free Videos
It’s no secret that most educators use YouTube videos in the classroom. But as many educators know, YouTube is sometimes blocked, and videos contain ads and other distractions. At best, this is a minor inconvenience, and at worst, students are exposed to inappropriate content. Many of the videos hosted on ClassHook are streamed from YouTube. […]
ClassHook Improves Pause Prompts with Question Markers
Educators on ClassHook have enjoyed using our pause prompts feature to make learning more engaging and interactive for their students. Pause prompts are timestamped questions you can insert at any moment in a video. For a guide on how to use pause prompts, click here. Today, we’re excited to introduce Question Markers for pause prompts! […]
A New Way to Embed ClassHook Videos
As an educator, you use many websites and apps to share content with your students. Whether you’re sharing to your LMS, your class website, or another app, you need an easy way to showcase your favorite videos. Teachers using ClassHook previously needed to use YouTube embed links to show clips. But linking through YouTube doesn’t […]
The New Playlists Experience
We’ve redesigned playlists to be more intuitive and cohesive. Playlists are one of the most widely-used features on ClassHook. Educators use them to organize clips by topic and class period, and to save clips for later viewing. Playlists worked just fine, but we saw room for improvement in terms of their ability to organize and […]
Finally, a Movie Recommendation Tool for Teaching
“Looking for great movies for Biology!” As an educator, have you ever seen or written a message like this on social media? In the replies are often movie titles and vague recollections of scenes from TV shows. It’s not that the suggestions aren’t relevant; it’s that they’re often not specific enough. Even if you learn […]
Use Question Templates on ClassHook to Create Discussion Starters
At ClassHook, we’re continually looking for ways to support educators in engaging their students. We know that educators rely on the discussion questions accompanying our clips and are excited to announce a new, powerful way to create high-quality discussions in your classroom. Introducing Question Templates Question Templates are a new way to seamlessly create thought-provoking […]
Now you can upload your own clips to ClassHook!
Perhaps you’ve created a funny video and want to show it to your students but don’t want it public on YouTube. Or maybe you’ve found an amazing clip that you can’t find anywhere else and need somewhere to upload it for easy access. Starting today, all ClassHook educators can upload their own videos directly onto […]
We’ve Removed Bookmarks
Today, we removed bookmarks from ClassHook in favor of playlists. We’ve had both ways of organizing clips available to educators for a long time. However, we found that there were a lot of overlapping features, and it was creating confusion. So we decided to remove bookmarks to make your experience on ClassHook better. In terms […]
A New Discussions Experience on ClassHook
Related Guide: How to Create Live Discussions on ClassHook When students have the opportunity to analyze media and participate in discussion around a topic, they learn more effectively. At ClassHook, we’ve been hard at work creating a better way for you to conduct discussions with your students. We read over your feedback, and after 15,000 […]