A video learning platform for Elgia, where every note, comment, question and pin attaches to a line of the lesson's transcript
Alinkeo is a learning platform: courses built from video lessons, made to get knowledge to a specific group of people: military veterans. Authors upload a video and get a transcript with it, from human transcription or speech recognition. As senior designer, working with junior designer Mutala Musau, I designed the course player learners study in and the tools inside it.
Lessons are long videos. A video is hard to search, hard to skim and hard to come back to, and the questions a learner has are about one moment in it, not the whole lesson.
A course player built around the transcript: search it, jump from any line, and attach a note, comment, question or pin to the exact moment it's about.
A lesson can run past 20 minutes. Learners want to find the part where a term came up, keep a thought for later, or ask about the bit they didn't follow.
In a plain video player all of that happens somewhere else: a notebook, a forum, or scrubbing back and forth along the timeline. The work was to bring it into the player and tie it to the moment it's about.
The first pass put every tool in the side panel's tabs, with small text buttons in the player bar: Display Feedback Type and Drop A Pin.
The refined player gives the transcript room to be read. The side panel opens on it with search at the top, and note and pin sit in the player bar as icons beside speed, picture-in-picture and accessibility.
A working stand-in for the player. Search the transcript, click any line to jump there, then take a note, comment, ask a question or drop a pin on it. Everything you save takes you back to its moment.
In today's training, we're going to go through the component panels.
Each one moves something learners did outside the video into the player, and ties it to a time in the lesson.
Every tool in the player hangs off the same thing: a time range in the transcript. That's what lets a note, a question or a pin take you back.
Authors upload a video or record one. In the editor, they select part of the transcript to make a clip, loop a section while they work on it, and add interactions along the timeline.
The transcript learners read is the one authors edit with, so a moment means the same thing on both sides.
Follow a learner through one lesson: watch with the transcript, pin a moment, and find what they saved.
Four ways to mark a moment is a lot. Usage per tool would show which ones earn a place up front and which can sit a tap further away.
The refined player still opens with ten tabs across the side panel and below the video. I'd start with Transcript and Lessons and let learners add the rest with the + button.
