Timestamped Questions

When you send a survey after someone watches a video, you are relying on their memory. They might remember the overall impression, but the specific details — the moment a feature confused them, the frame where they noticed a bug, the section that felt too long — are lost.

Timestamped questions solve this by appearing at the exact moment relevant content plays on screen. The video pauses, the viewer sees the question overlaid on the frame they just watched, and they respond while the context is still fresh. This produces dramatically more specific, actionable feedback compared to post-video surveys.

In the VForms builder, you see a visual timeline below the video player. Click anywhere on the timeline to set a question's trigger point. When a viewer reaches that timestamp, the video pauses and the question appears as an overlay.

You can place as many questions as you need at any point in the video. Questions can use any of VForms' supported types — text input, button choice, or radial choice. Each question is fully customizable with its own prompt text, position on screen, and optional skip logic.

Place questions immediately after the content they reference, not before. Viewers need to see the material before they can give meaningful feedback on it. For product demos, add a feedback question right after each feature is shown. For training videos, place comprehension checks at the end of each concept.

Avoid clustering too many questions at the same timestamp. Space them out so the viewing experience feels natural. If you need multiple questions about the same section, consider using a button-choice question first to triage, then follow up with a text input for detail.

Product teams use timestamped questions to collect feature-by-feature feedback during demos. UX researchers place questions at task completion moments to measure comprehension. Course creators add quizzes after each lesson section. Training managers embed compliance checks throughout onboarding videos.

In every case, the pattern is the same: pair each piece of video content with a question that captures the viewer's reaction while the context is on screen.