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.
EdTech platforms, universities, and online learning providers seeking to improve student engagement and learning outcomes through better content discoverability
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
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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
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 contentawait 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 changesgenerate_summaries: true}});
Enable Student Search
Create search interface for students
// Search lecture contentasync function searchLectures(courseId: string, query: string) {const results = await client.retrieve({collection_id: `course-${courseId}`,query: {type: 'text',text: query // e.g., "how does recursion work"},return_fields: ['timestamp', 'transcript', 'slide_content', 'thumbnail'],limit: 20});return results.map(r => ({lecture_title: r.metadata.lecture_title,timestamp: r.timestamp,duration: r.segment_duration,transcript_preview: r.transcript.slice(0, 200),slide_text: r.slide_content,thumbnail_url: r.thumbnail_url,relevance_score: r.score}));}
Build Student Interface
Create intuitive search and preview experience
// React search componentfunction LectureSearch({ courseId }) {const [query, setQuery] = useState('');const [results, setResults] = useState([]);const handleSearch = async () => {const moments = await searchLectures(courseId, query);setResults(moments);};return (<div><SearchInputvalue={query}onChange={setQuery}onSearch={handleSearch}placeholder="Search for any concept..."/><ResultsList results={results} /></div>);}
Integrate with LMS
Embed search in your learning management system
// LTI integration for Canvas/Moodleconst ltiConfig = {tool_name: 'Mixpeek Lecture Search',launch_url: 'https://your-app.com/lti/launch',consumer_key: process.env.LTI_KEY,shared_secret: process.env.LTI_SECRET,privacy_level: 'public',custom_params: {course_id: '$Canvas.course.id',user_role: '$Membership.role'}};
Feature Extractors Used
Retriever Stages Used
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
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