Quiz and lesson animation templates
Question reveals, definitions, key takeaways and progress bars for videos that are trying to teach something.
In short
A teaching video needs the same few beats over and over: pose a question and reveal the answer, define a term, mark the thing worth remembering, and show where the viewer is in a series. These are animated versions of those beats — a quiz reveal that holds before it answers, a dictionary-style definition card, a key takeaway slab, a myth-versus-fact pair and a lesson progress bar. Type the text in the browser and export a file for whatever you edit in.
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- MP4, GIF, MOV
- Export
- 16:9 · 4:5 · 1:1 · 9:16
- Ratios
- 720p to 4K
- Resolution
- In the browser
- Editing
What you get
A hold before the reveal, not an instant answer
The quiz card pauses on the question. That pause is what makes a viewer commit to a guess, which is what makes the answer stick.
Definitions that look like definitions
A term, its part of speech and a one-line meaning, laid out the way a dictionary does it, so the format itself signals what to read.
Progress, so a series feels like one
A lesson progress bar tells a viewer where they are. Three of four is a reason to finish; no marker is a reason to drift.
Text you can change per lesson
Every card is text fields. A new lesson is retyping, not rebuilding.
The animations
Quiz reveals, definitions, takeaways and progress bars for lessons.
How to make an animated quiz reveal
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Write the question and the answer
Both go in as text. The animation holds the question long enough for a viewer to answer it in their head before it reveals.
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Set the pause
The hold before the reveal is the whole point. Too short and nobody guesses, too long and they scrub past it.
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Export it into your edit
MP4 as a cutaway, or transparent MOV to sit over a slide or a screen recording.
What comes out of it
Formats
MP4 for a cutaway, MOV with alpha over a slide or screen recording, GIF for a course page.
Ratios
16:9 for the lesson, 9:16 and 1:1 for the clips promoting it.
Frame rate
24, 30 or 60 fps.
Length
Four to eight seconds, which covers a question, a hold and a reveal.
Questions
Can I put these over a screen recording?
Yes, on a paid plan. Export MOV with a real alpha channel and lay it over the recording — the card floats above your slides with nothing behind it.
How long should the pause before the answer be?
About two to three seconds for a one-line question. Long enough for a viewer to commit to a guess, short enough that somebody who already knows does not reach for the scrub bar.
Do these work for course platforms as well as YouTube?
Yes. The export is a plain video file, so it uploads to a course platform, drops into a lesson edit, or goes on YouTube unchanged.
Can I make a vertical version for a clip?
Yes. Set the canvas to 9:16 before exporting and the card is composed for the vertical frame rather than cropped from the wide one.
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