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 […]
New Features
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ClassHook’s New Browsing Experience
In education, we know we’re only as successful as the teachers we serve. That’s why ClassHook is always seeking and incorporating your feedback into our platform. Our new browsing experience launches today with expanded tools to help you find clips more efficiently and easily. Our new features include: A more consolidated subject view A new […]
Encourage Inquiry with Student Questions
When showing videos in your classroom, it can be difficult to gauge student understanding. You may pause the video to ask clarifying questions, or you might ask students to complete an activity after watching the video. However, these methods don’t always reach all of your learners since the most active participants will respond to your […]