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Interactivity is available on Synthesia's Enterprise and Creator plans.

Synthesia's Interactivity feature enables creators to design dynamic, clickable videos with branching pathways and knowledge checks, adding a powerful layer of viewer engagement and personalization. Whether you're creating eLearning modules, product demos, or scenario-based training, this feature lets your audience actively engage with your content—not just watch it.

Interactivity allows you to:

• Add clickable buttons: Convert text and shape elements into buttons that open URLs or jump to other scenes, enabling non-linear, "choose-your-own-adventure" experiences.
• Create quizzes: Add single-choice and multiple-choice questions to test knowledge, track scores, and create complete training lessons with pass/fail criteria.

By adding interactive elements to your video content, viewers gain control over their learning journey, increasing retention and engagement.

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Interactive videos must be published via Synthesia for interactivity to work.

Interactivity is available for Synthesia videos shared via the share page link, iframe embeds, and SCORM packages. Downloading interactive videos is not supported.

Creating interactive videos

Clickable buttons

Text and shape elements, and groups of text and/or shape elements can become clickable buttons. There's no limit to the amount of interactive elements that you can add to a particular scene, but we recommend keeping things simple to provide the best viewer experience.

To create a clickable button:

1. Select an element (or group of elements).
2. From the inspector panel, toggle on the interactivity option.
3. Choose an action for the button click to trigger:

   1. Open URL: To navigate the viewer to a URL, paste a link directly into the interactivity input field and click Set as URL.

      

   2. Jump to Scene:

      1. If the button should take the viewer to the next scene in the video, click on the interactivity input field and select Next scene.
      2. Otherwise, select a specific scene that viewer should be directed to—it can be any of the previous or following scenes in the video.
      

   3. Optional: Enable Wait for click to pause the video until a viewer interacts with the button. With Wait for click enabled, viewers will not be able to pause or skip the scene.

      

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Only text and shape elements, and groups of text and/or shape elements can become clickable buttons.

A group of elements that includes a media element, such as a video, cannot be interactive.

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Pro tip:

If you'd like to simulate interactivity for an element that isn't text or a shape, like a media element, you can place a shape on top of the media element, and adjust the transparency of the fill color of the shape to 0%.

Then, enable interactivity for the transparent shape and adjust settings as desired.

The opacity of the layer itself must remain at 100%.

Quiz questions

You can add interactive questions to your videos to create knowledge checks and track viewer understanding. Questions can be grouped into quizzes with scoring and pass/fail criteria—perfect for training and eLearning content.

Add questions to your video

1. Click the Components button in the top toolbar.
2. Select either:
   • Single answer: Allows viewers to select one correct answer.
   • Multiple answer: Allows viewers to select one or more correct answers.
3. When added to a scene, question components snap to the right half of the canvas but can be freely resized and moved.
4. Edit the question and answer text by clicking into the component.
5. Add additional answer options by clicking the + button under the bottom-most answer option.
6. Mark the correct answer(s) using the radio button (for single answer) or checkboxes (for multiple answer).
   Note: For a multiple answer question, all correct options must be selected in order for the answer to be marked as correct.
7. Customize the appearance using the three styling options: font family, shape, and color. You can also resize, crop, rotate, and move the question component.

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Note:

• You can only add one Single answer or Multiple answer component to each scene.
• You'll need to add at least one Single answer or Multiple answer component to your video before you'll be able to add a Results component to your video.
• You can only add one Results component to your video.

Enable practice mode

You can enable practice mode on individual questions to:

• Exclude the question from the overall quiz score.
• Show immediate correct/incorrect feedback to viewers after they submit their answer.

To enable practice mode, select the quiz component and toggle off the Score option from the inspector panel in the Interactivity section.

This is useful for formative assessments or learning checkpoints that don't contribute to the final score.

Results component

The Results component displays quiz outcomes and can be added once per video:

1. Add the Results component from the Components menu.
2. In the inspector panel, define the pass criteria (for example, 80% correct).
3. Optionally enable Allow retry, which adds a retry button that takes viewers back to the first quiz question in the video.

Add logic with conditional statements

You can use conditional logic to control what happens based on quiz performance:

• Always: A statement that always executes (cannot be combined with If/else).
• If/else: Create conditional branches based on quiz answers or scores.
• You can stack multiple If statements by adding more rules.
• Within each If statement, you can append multiple conditions using AND operations.

Branching videos

Unless a scene has Wait for click enabled for one of the interactive elements in the scene, it will have the After this scene setting available in the inspector panel. This setting can be used to define the path for a video to take when the current scene finishes.

The available options for After this scene are:

• Next scene: Direct the viewer to the next scene in the video.
• End video: Set the current scene as the final scene of the video.
• Direct the viewer to a specific scene—it can be any of the previous or following scenes in the video.

Use a combination of scene navigation settings and clickable hotspots to make your videos feel like a conversation or guided journey.

• Use the After this scene setting to create a path (or paths) of scenes.
• Add clickable buttons to let users choose different paths by jumping to scenes that start paths.

Sharing interactive videos

Interactive video player

Interactive elements enhance how viewers engage with your video in the Synthesia player:

• Clickable buttons are visually marked with a shimmer effect during playback and by a dot on the timeline.
• Quiz questions are treated as blocking interactions: when a question appears, player controls are limited and the timeline is not shown until the viewer submits their answer.
• If a viewer navigates backward in the video using player controls, they will see the submitted state of previously answered questions (they cannot change their answers unless retry is enabled).
• If a viewer uses the retry button on the results component, they can reattempt all quiz questions.
• Scene-based interactivity (like Wait for click) changes the viewing behavior:
  • The timeline is hidden while the video waits for interaction.
  • Playback is paused until the viewer clicks on a button, encouraging active engagement.
  • Back and Replay buttons appear:
    • Back returns viewers to the previously watched scene.
    • Replay restarts the current scene.

Accessibility

Interactive elements include ARIA labels and are keyboard-navigable. Viewers can use the Tab and Shift + Tab keys to cycle through clickable buttons, ensuring accessibility for keyboard-only users.

Pressing Tab will focus on the next interactive element, while pressing Shift + Tab will focus on the previous interactive element.

Multilingual playback

If you translate your interactive video using Synthesia, all translated versions are available through Synthesia’s multilingual video player. Viewers will be shown the appropriate translation based on their browser settings, and can switch between available languages at any time. This ensures your interactivity works seamlessly across different languages and provides a unified experience for global audiences.

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Note:

Viewers will only be able to switch between translations during a scene that is non-blocking (i.e. the interactive elements in the scene do not have Wait for click enabled, or there are no interactive elements in the scene).

Switching between translations will reset progress in the video.

SCORM export

Interactive videos can be exported as SCORM packages to publish in your LMS (learning management system).

For interactive videos with quizzes

When your interactive video includes quiz questions, Synthesia reports the following information via SCORM:

• Completion status: Set to "completed" when the viewer reaches the scene with the results component.
• Success status: Set to "passed" or "failed" based on whether the viewer met the pass criteria defined in the results component.
• Score: Reported as a percentage between 0 and 100.
• Question responses: Each response and its correct/incorrect status are reported individually.

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Responses to questions in practice mode are not reported via SCORM.

For interactive videos without quizzes

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You must use the After this scene setting in the inspector panel to set a scene as the end of the video in order for it to be marked as complete in your LMS.

The content will be marked as complete when the learner reaches the scene you've set as the end of the video.

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Note:

Interactive videos have a set completion rate of 100%.

This is because an interactive video is marked as complete only when the learner reaches the scene that has been designated as the end of the video, or when they reach the scene of a video with a graded quiz that has the results component.

Video analytics for interactivity

Interactive videos support a range of analytics that help you understand how viewers engage with your content.

Standard analytics

With the exception of Completion rate and Avg. % watched, which are currently not supported for interactive videos due to the non-linear structure of branching experiences, our standard video analytics are available.

Quiz analytics

For videos with quiz questions, you also get four quiz-specific metrics:

• Question attempts: Total number of times viewers responded to a question.
• Question pass rate: Percentage of correct responses relative to all responses.
• Quiz attempts: Total number of times viewers attempted to answer the quiz.
• Quiz pass rate: Percentage of quizzes passed relative to quiz completions.

These metrics help you identify where viewers struggle and improve your training content accordingly.