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Task Type: Video Review

How to configure a Video Review Task, including marker customization for time-coded comments and additional comment settings.

Video Review is a Task Type that presents the participant with a video for evaluation and feedback. Participants will be asked to select a marker to categorize their time-coded comments. You can upload a video, screen recording or record from your webcam (video uploads should be filetypes such as .mp4, .mov, .avi).

Watch the interactive walkthrough below for an overview of the Video Review Task type.

Marker Customization

Any number of markers can be defined for each Video Review (e.g. Love, Like, Dislike, etc.). Comments on each marker are required with the option to set the minimum and maximum number of words required per marker.

If the Task is Required, a single marker with a comment must be provided in order to proceed. Custom limits can also be specified per marker by selecting the Enforce marker limits toggle.

Image showing how markers Labels can be customized and marker limits enforced with a min / max

Comment Customization

In the Comments section of the Task setup page, you'll be able to customize the marker prompting verbiage and enforce a word count. From this same section you'll also be able to Capture additional commentary from participants or pose a related question to the video that maybe wasn't dealt with explicitly in the mark-up portion.

Image showing Customize prompt, Enforce word count, and Capture additional commentary toggles

For more information on how you can leverage the Video Review Task type within your research, make sure to check out our Spotlight: Video Review Task blog article!

Additional Settings

As with other Task types in Recollective, researchers can take advantage of several additional setting options when configuring an Video Review task:

  • Completion Requirement: Beneath the task name, the Required Task toggle determines whether the task is mandatory. When enabled, participants must complete the task. When disabled, the task is optional and can be skipped. For optional tasks, the Ask for reason if skipped setting is available to prompt participants to provide a reason when skipping the task.

  • Block Pasting: To discourage participants from using generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT) to complete tasks, admins can enable Block pasting of external content. This prevents participants from pasting text copied from outside sources into their responses.

  • Point Customization: If the Points feature is enabled for the study, admins can enable Customize points awarded for task completion to assign a custom point value. The custom value can be set higher or lower than the default points awarded for the task type.

  • Task Visibility: Admins can restrict which participants are permitted to view and complete the task. Task Visibility settings can be used to limit access based on a participant segment, previous task responses, previous task completion, or overall activity completion.

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