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    Instant Lecture Moment Search for Student Learning

    For EdTech platforms with thousands of lecture hours. Enable students to find specific concepts in seconds. 79% NDCG@10 retrieval accuracy across video, slides, and code.

    Who It's For

    EdTech platforms, universities, and online learning providers seeking to improve student engagement and learning outcomes through better content discoverability

    Problem Solved

    Students waste time scrubbing through hours of lecture video to find specific concepts, course search returns entire videos instead of relevant moments, and valuable content in slides and code examples is not searchable

    Why Mixpeek

    79% NDCG@10 retrieval accuracy (state-of-the-art), instant results with exact timestamps, and unified search across video, audio, slides, and code in a single query

    Overview

    Students often know what concept they need to review but cannot find where in a lecture it was covered. Traditional video platforms offer only basic search (titles, descriptions) or require manual timestamps. This use case shows how Mixpeek enables instant, precise lecture moment discovery.

    Challenges This Solves

    Content Discovery Friction

    Students spend 15-30 minutes finding specific topics within lectures

    Impact: Frustration, reduced study efficiency, lower course completion rates

    Video-Only Search

    Search cannot find content shown on slides or written on whiteboards

    Impact: Visual explanations, diagrams, and code examples are undiscoverable

    Whole-Video Results

    Search returns entire 90-minute lectures instead of relevant moments

    Impact: Students must still scrub through video to find the topic

    Multi-Format Content

    Course content spans video, slides, PDFs, and code files

    Impact: Students must search multiple systems to find related content

    Implementation Steps

    Mixpeek analyzes lecture videos frame-by-frame, extracting slides, code snippets, diagrams, and speech transcripts, then indexes everything for natural language search with precise timestamp results

    1

    Upload Course Content

    Process lecture videos and supplementary materials

    import { Mixpeek } from 'mixpeek';
    const client = new Mixpeek({ apiKey: process.env.MIXPEEK_API_KEY });
    // Process course content
    await client.buckets.connect({
    collection_id: 'course-cs101',
    bucket_uri: 's3://courses/cs101/',
    extractors: [
    'speech-to-text',
    'slide-detection',
    'code-extraction',
    'equation-recognition',
    'diagram-analysis'
    ],
    settings: {
    languages: ['en'],
    segment_by: 'topic', // Auto-segment by topic changes
    generate_summaries: true
    }
    });
    2

    Enable Student Search

    Create search interface for students

    // Search lecture content
    async function searchLectures(courseId: string, query: string) {
    const results = await client.retrieve({
    collection_id: `course-${courseId}`,
    query: {
    type: 'text',
    text: query // e.g., "how does recursion work"
    },
    return_fields: ['timestamp', 'transcript', 'slide_content', 'thumbnail'],
    limit: 20
    });
    return results.map(r => ({
    lecture_title: r.metadata.lecture_title,
    timestamp: r.timestamp,
    duration: r.segment_duration,
    transcript_preview: r.transcript.slice(0, 200),
    slide_text: r.slide_content,
    thumbnail_url: r.thumbnail_url,
    relevance_score: r.score
    }));
    }
    3

    Build Student Interface

    Create intuitive search and preview experience

    // React search component
    function LectureSearch({ courseId }) {
    const [query, setQuery] = useState('');
    const [results, setResults] = useState([]);
    const handleSearch = async () => {
    const moments = await searchLectures(courseId, query);
    setResults(moments);
    };
    return (
    <div>
    <SearchInput
    value={query}
    onChange={setQuery}
    onSearch={handleSearch}
    placeholder="Search for any concept..."
    />
    <ResultsList results={results} />
    </div>
    );
    }
    4

    Integrate with LMS

    Embed search in your learning management system

    // LTI integration for Canvas/Moodle
    const ltiConfig = {
    tool_name: 'Mixpeek Lecture Search',
    launch_url: 'https://your-app.com/lti/launch',
    consumer_key: process.env.LTI_KEY,
    shared_secret: process.env.LTI_SECRET,
    privacy_level: 'public',
    custom_params: {
    course_id: '$Canvas.course.id',
    user_role: '$Membership.role'
    }
    };

    Expected Outcomes

    79% NDCG@10 - relevant results in top 10 nearly 8 of 10 times

    Search Relevance

    From 15-30 minutes to under 30 seconds

    Time to Find Content

    45% increase in lecture video views

    Student Engagement

    20% improvement in course completion rates

    Course Completion

    4.5/5 average rating for search feature

    Student Satisfaction

    Frequently Asked Questions

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