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Video Activities
TL;DR; A video activity embeds a Lupo-generated video inside a section of a course. Students press play, watch, and Lupo tracks their completion automatically. Each video activity can optionally include Ask-My-Deck — an AI chatbot that answers questions about the video's content.
Video is the primary activity type in most Lupo courses, and it's what the Create tools are built to feed into. You upload a PowerPoint, get a video back, and drop it into a course as a video activity.
Creating a video activity
From inside a section on a course details page, click Add Activity. You'll get a form with:
- Title — what the Student sees in the activity list.
- Description — optional context shown above the player.
- Activity Type — select Video.
- Integration — select Internal Lupo Video.
- Video — pick a video from the dropdown of your generated videos, or paste a Lupo Video Build ID directly.
- AI Q&A Chatbot — optional toggle to enable Ask-My-Deck on this activity.
- Settings (top right) — adjust the order within the section, set an estimated duration, or mark the activity as optional.
Click Create Activity to save.
Ask-My-Deck: the AI chatbot
Video activities support an optional AI chatbot called Ask-My-Deck. When enabled, a chat box appears directly below the video player with a "What can I help with?" prompt. Students type questions and the AI answers using the video's transcript as its source — so every answer is grounded in exactly what was said in the video.
Ask-My-Deck also returns a list of clickable timestamps alongside each answer. Clicking a timestamp jumps the video directly to the moment where the relevant content was discussed, so Students can re-watch the exact segment without scrubbing through the whole video.
Enable Ask-My-Deck when the video is dense, covers complex material, or is something Students will want to reference after their first watch. Skip it for short welcome videos or simple how-to content where a chatbot would feel like overkill.
How Students experience a video activity
When a Student opens a video activity, they see a standard video player with controls for play, pause, volume, and full-screen. The activity title and description appear above the player. If Ask-My-Deck is enabled, the chat box sits directly below the video. A Next Section button at the bottom advances to the next activity, and a Course Content button returns to the course outline.
Progress tracking
Completion is recorded automatically once Lupo detects enough playback — Students don't need to click a "Mark as complete" button. Partial watch events are also captured in the activity feed so Instructors can see exactly how far someone got, even on a video they didn't finish.
See How Progress Is Tracked for the full picture.
The ideal workflow: Create → LMS
- Build your slides in PowerPoint with narration in the speaker notes.
- Run them through Create Video From PowerPoint.
- When the finished video arrives by email, note its Build ID or URL.
- Come back to the LMS, add a video activity, select the video from the dropdown.
- Optionally enable Ask-My-Deck.
- Publish the course.
Everything stays inside Lupo — no uploading to YouTube, no copying files to a second platform.
Where to go next
- Reading Activities — for short inline text.
- Document Activities — for PDFs and reference files.
- How Progress Is Tracked — how Lupo decides a video is "done."