Getting Started with Kaltura

Overview

Kaltura is a video management system that allows video integration with Canvas. With Kaltura, you can: upload, publish, search, record, and share videos directly within Canvas. For example, you can record a desktop lecture and upload it into course content.

 

Accessing Kaltura

You can access Kaltura in Canvas under the tools My Media and Media Gallery, which are located in the Canvas course navigation bar.

  • My Media: Is a searchable repository where you can manage, view, and edit your videos in Canvas. My Media will contain all of your Zoom Meeting recordings you saved to the Zoom cloud as well as Kaltura videos that you upload.
  • Media Gallery: Is a searchable gallery of videos assigned to one or more courses in Canvas. With media gallery you can:
    • Select which videos from My Media will be available in a Media Gallery in Canvas.
    • Upload a video directly to a Media Gallery.
    • Use analytics to see which students viewed the video.

Note: When you record a Zoom session, the recording will appear in your My Media tool (across courses). From there you can publish the video and share it in your content.

 

My Media

The My Media tool is a personal video repository. Even if you have the tool enabled in your course navigation, only you will be able to see only your personal repository of videos. If a student clicks on the My Media tool, they will only be able to see any videos they uploaded. 

My Media houses:
  • Videos you upload.
  • Videos you record on your computer using Kaltura Capture software.
  • Videos you record using your webcam.
  • Zoom Meeting recordings you saved to the Zoom cloud (the version in Zoom is removed after 30 days).
  • Video captions. 

You can upload different video types into your My Media tool.

Adding Videos:

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  1. Go to My Media in any Canvas site. 
  2. Click Add New and then click either:
    • Media Upload to upload a video from your computer.
    • Express Capture to record yourself (requires Adobe Flash).
    • YouTube to link a video from YouTube to My Media (requires video URL).
    • Kaltura Capture to download Kaltura’s recording software and use that to make a video.
    • Video Quiz to make a quiz video.

 

Publishing Videos:

Once you have a video uploaded into your My Media tool, you can publish it to make it available to students. Once you publish, you can embed the video across your course content. 

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Steps to publish a video:

  1. Click on My Media in your course navigation.
  2. Click on the small checkbox next to the video(s) you want to publish.
  3. Click the Actions from down and select Publish.

If you see the message, “You cannot publish entry [video name]. Please fill the required fields first,” you haven’t entered any text for the video description area. Click the Edit option in the error sentence.

Edit

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  • After selecting Edit, enter a description in the description box
  • Click Save
  • Go back to the steps to publish as described above.

 

Media Gallery

This is the course video repository. When enabled in your course navigation, students can go in and access videos and upload videos as well. You can also view video analytics including video quiz analytics.

To view video analytics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Go to the course Media Gallery
  2. Click the settings icon in the top right corner
  3. Analytics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Click the Media tab to see a list of students and video interactions.
  • Click Load More and the arrows next to student names to show details. You can download separate media viewing reports for each student and media item by clicking the save file or printer icons. 

Note: If you made the video into a quiz using the Kaltura quiz tool, then you will see the quiz analytics here as well.

 

Best Practices

  • Familiarize yourself with the My media and Media Gallery tools and features before using it in a live course (use your Canvas sandbox course).
    • EX: Practice uploading,  publishing, and embedding videos first.
  • Pick a Canvas tool to use to store videos for students to access when they need (files, pages, assignments, discussions, or wherever you store course resources.

 

Additional Resources