Design more human asynchronous learning
Practical guides and resources for instructors who want students to explain, respond, reflect, and feel the presence of other people.
Guides
Teaching and assessment guides
Practical, educator-first guidance for designing more human asynchronous courses, discussions, and assessments.
Design the Second Turn: Asynchronous Peer Feedback Students Can Use
A practical prompt, response structure, and lightweight rubric for turning an initial video post into focused peer feedback and a meaningful return.
The Best Response to AI Is Not Detection. It Is a More Human Course.
A practical argument for presence, explanation, and second turns as a more durable response to AI than detection-first course design.
Asynchronous Oral Assessments in the Age of AI
A practical framework for choosing, designing, and scaling short oral explanations, defenses, critiques, reflections, and demonstrations.
Add a 90-Second Oral Defense to Written Work
A copy-ready prompt, lightweight rubric, and five-step setup for adding a brief asynchronous defense to an existing written assignment.
8 Small Ways to Make an Asynchronous Course Feel More Human
A lightweight course rhythm built around instructor presence, purposeful student voice, personal feedback, and fewer forced replies.
Tutorials
How-to tutorials
Step-by-step product walkthroughs for getting started and using Vivipod day to day.
Get Started with Vivipod
Requirements, sign up / sign in with a 6-digit email code or Google, then continue to create your first Space.
Create Your First Space
Create a course or community Space with a name, URL slug, description, and open or private access.
Add a Topic to Your Space
Topics organize prompts inside a Space. Learn how space admins add a Topic title, description, and post-approval settings.
Record and Upload Your First Post
Open a Topic, record and review a response, upload it, and see whether it publishes immediately or awaits approval.
Share a Space: Link, Canvas, and Embed
Share one Space by direct link, Canvas Course Navigation, or iframe embed—including Canvas options that open in place or in a new tab.
Join a Space and Post as a Student
Follow the student path for joining open Spaces, requesting access to private Spaces, recording a response, and submitting to a moderated Topic.
Review and Publish Pending Posts
Complete the moderated Topic loop: open Pending, review each post, Publish, and confirm the published feed.
Invite, Approve, and Manage Members
Use the Members panel to review the active roster, approve private-Space requests, and remove members.
Recorder Tools: Draw, Pause, Screen, and PiP
Use Vivipod recorder controls for annotated explanations, screen-based demonstrations, and carefully paced responses.
Comments, Mentions, and Feedback
Turn published video posts into conversations with comments, mentions, timestamps, and activity notifications.
Product updates
What’s new in Vivipod
A durable record of product changes that affect how educators create, discuss, and share in Vivipod.
Welcome Back: Comments for Everyone, Vivipod Plus, and Captions
A back-to-school note from the Vivipod team: introduction Topics to start the year, comments free for everyone, the new Vivipod Plus plan, and per-Topic captions that generate when a Space member presses CC.
Bring a Vivipod Space into Canvas—or Embed It on the Web
The new Share flow gives you a Canvas configuration URL or embed code without changing who can access your Space.
Comments and Notifications Turn Posts into Conversations
Use comments for follow-up, mentions to notify specific members, timestamps to reference a moment, and notification controls to manage activity.