Kaltura Video

Kaltura Video Overview

Kaltura is NIC’s video plat­form for host­ing and man­ag­ing media. It can be accessed through Kaltura My Media in Bright­space or NIC’s Media Space site, which pro­vides cloud stor­age on servers in Mon­tre­al, Cana­da. It is avail­able to all NIC employ­ees and stu­dents for stor­ing and shar­ing videos and oth­er media (e.g., pod­casts, audio, and images), and includes two record­ing tools: Express Cap­ture (in-brows­er) and Kaltura Cap­ture (down­load­able). Like YouTube, Medi­a­Space allows users to add and share media and auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjusts video res­o­lu­tion for dif­fer­ent devices. Unlike YouTube, Medi­a­Space has no adver­tise­ments and does not store con­tent out­side of Cana­da. It is ful­ly BC FIPPA com­pli­ant.

What Can Kaltura Do?

Stu­dents and fac­ul­ty can share videos in Bright­space via the Media Gallery, embeds, or links.

*TIP: Access Kaltura Learn­ing Videos for a col­lec­tion of videos to find sup­port on how to use the plat­form.

Kaltura: Using Kaltura Video

The fol­low­ing video pro­vides an ori­en­ta­tion to the use of Kaltura, what you might use it for and the basics of how to access and locate your col­lec­tion for upload­ing and embed­ding media.

Kaltura Uses for Instructors

  • Embed­ding a video on an HTML page in the Bright­space Con­tent area
  • Embed­ding a video to an assign­men­t’s or dis­cus­sion’s instruc­tions area
  • Adding video to a Bright­space course’s Kaltura Media Gallery so stu­dents can see an entire col­lec­tion of course videos in one spot

Kaltura Uses for Students

  • Mak­ing a video to intro­duce them­selves to their class by embed­ding it in a dis­cus­sion post OR adding it to the course’s Kaltura Media Gallery
  • Cre­at­ing a video or pod­cast for an assign­ment and then embed­ding it in the assign­ment sub­mis­sion area
  • Shar­ing a video with a class­mate or the instruc­tor via the email tool by embed­ding the video in the mes­sage

Access and Support

  1. Bright­space: You can access your Kaltura My Media col­lec­tion from either the Bright­space home­page OR from with­in a Bright­space course under Tools> Kaltura My Media.
  2. NIC Medi­a­Space: This pro­vides direct access to the plat­form. Login with your stu­dent or employ­ee NIC cre­den­tials and pass­word.

Support

Kalutra Company Supports

NIC Instructor Support 

NIC Student Support

Kaltura Capture

Kaltura Cap­ture pro­vides all the tools you need to record videos using your web­cam and com­put­er screen. It’s per­fect for cre­at­ing tuto­ri­als, demos, pre­sen­ta­tions, or cap­tur­ing any on-screen activ­i­ties. The soft­ware has handy screen anno­ta­tion fea­tures, like draw­ing or adding text, to make your videos more engag­ing. After record­ing, you can edit your videos, and then eas­i­ly upload them to your Kaltura My Media col­lec­tion.

*TIP: Access Kaltura Learn­ing Videos for a col­lec­tion of videos to find sup­port on how to use Kaltura Cap­ture.

Kaltura Capture Walk Through

Download Kaltura Capture

There are two places from where NIC instruc­tors and stu­dents can down­load the tool:

  1. NIC Medi­a­Space
  1. Brigth­space > Kaltura My Media

Download for Windows or Mac

Kaltura in Brightspace

You can access Kaltura My Media via two loca­tions in Bright­space, from the main navbar on the Bright­space Home­page and from inside a course by nav­i­gat­ing to Tools > Kaltura My Media.

Accessing Kaltura My Media in Brightspace

This video shows the TWO main loca­tions where you can access your My Media col­lec­tion of videos in Bright­space.

Managing Your Kaltura My Media Collection

You can upload a YouTube video direct­ly to your Kaltura My Media col­lec­tion in Bright­space, mak­ing it part of your per­son­al media library. Fol­low these instruc­tions to add the video so it’s ready to use in your cours­es.

Add your MP4 video files to your Kaltura My Media col­lec­tion in Bright­space so they’re ready to use in your cours­es. Fol­low these steps to upload your video quick­ly and eas­i­ly.

This video shows you how to locate the Kaltura Cap­ture Record­ing tool with­in the Kaltura My Media area under “Add New” and then make a short record­ing with the tool.

A machine cre­ates the cap­tions for all NIC videos in Kaltura. By default. It often takes a few hours or up to a day before the cap­tions exist in the CC icon in the play­er bot­tom. Machine cap­tion­ing is 80–85% cor­rect. If you have words or phras­es that are not accu­rate and rep­re­sent poor­ly in the cap­tion­ing envi­ron­ment, the steps below show how to edit those cap­tions.

A cus­tom thumb­nail helps your video stand out and gives view­ers a quick pre­view of its con­tent. Fol­low these instruc­tions to upload or select a thumb­nail for your Kaltura video, mak­ing it eas­i­er for your audi­ence to find and engage with your con­tent.

You can embed your Kaltura videos direct­ly onto an HTML page in Bright­space, mak­ing them easy for stu­dents to access with­in your course con­tent. Fol­low these steps to embed your video so it dis­plays seam­less­ly on the page.

Playlists help you orga­nize your Kaltura media into col­lec­tions, mak­ing it eas­i­er to man­age and share relat­ed videos. Fol­low these instruc­tions to cre­ate and orga­nize playlists so your media is sort­ed and acces­si­ble for your cours­es.

NIC MediaSpace

Medi­a­Space is a social video pub­lic-fac­ing por­tal like YouTube. With NIC’s Medi­a­Space, any NIC stu­dent or employ­ee can secure­ly cre­ate, upload, share, search, browse, and watch live and on demand videos, pre­sen­ta­tions, screen­casts, and oth­er rich media con­tent, any­time, any­where. How­ev­er, because NIC has Kaltura inte­grat­ed into Bright­space this “door­way” is rarely used by stu­dents and instruc­tors.

NIC’s Medi­a­Space is the “front-door” into your Kaltura account. We have also installed a Bright­space “con­nec­tor” to be used as anoth­er door­way in Bright­space cours­es. This page out­lines how to use and work with­in NIC Medi­a­Space. You would want to use the Medi­a­Space plat­form if you are shar­ing video with peo­ple beyond Bright­space such as any depart­ment or unit at North Island Col­lege or if you are an instruc­tor or stu­dent and want to share a video with some­one beyond your class­es or with fam­i­ly or friends.

The fol­low­ing hand­outs have been cus­tomed for NIC users:

*TIP: Access Kaltura Learn­ing Videos for a col­lec­tion of videos to find sup­port on how to use the plat­form.

How to Upload Media

This video shows you how to upload any media (video, audio) into Medi­a­Space.

How to Add a Co-publisher or Co-editor

This video demon­strates how to add a Co-pub­lish­er or Co-edi­tor. You can add co-pub­lish­ers to media to allow col­leagues or peers to use the media in their gal­leries and chan­nels.

Kaltura: How to Link or Embed a Video

This video shows how to find a video’s URL, which you can copy and share, and how to locate the embed code used to embed the video on a Bright­space page or a web­site.

Editing Video

In Kaltura (Bright­space or through NIC Medi­a­Space) there is an area to edit a video in terms of details, cap­tions, thumb­nails, col­lab­o­ra­tors, chap­ters etc. and there is also an offi­cial “Edi­tor” where you can add a hotspot, splice and cut out unwant­ed video chunks and add a quiz.

*TIP: Access Kaltura Learn­ing Videos for a col­lec­tion of videos to find sup­port on how to use the plat­form.

Getting Started with the Kaltura Video Editor

 

Video Quizzes

Video quizzes is a fea­ture to add ques­tions to your videos to assist view­ers in com­pre­hen­sion of key learn­ing ele­ments. There are four types of ques­tions you can ask via your video. Here are the lim­its by char­ac­ter count – for both the ques­tion and the answers from users. *NOTE: Instruc­tors you are not able to add your video quizzes to the grade­book in Bright­space. Instead con­sid­er using video quizzes to test for for­ma­tive learn­ing and assess­ment.

Quiz Ques­tion – Char­ac­ter Lim­its

  • Open ques­tions have a 200 char­ac­ter lim­it for ques­tions and 270 char­ac­ter lim­it for answers.
  • Mul­ti­ple-Choice ques­tions are lim­it­ed to 180 char­ac­ters for ques­tions and 140 char­ac­ters for answers
  • True-False ques­tions have a 450 char­ac­ter lim­it for the ques­tion
  • Reflec­tion Point ques­tion have a 500 char­ac­ter lim­it (there are no answers)

*TIP: Access Kaltura Learn­ing Videos for a col­lec­tion of videos to find sup­port on how to use the plat­form.

Creating Interactive Video Quizzes

Other

Chan­nels and Playlists: Learn how to orga­nize your videos into playlists and uti­lize chan­nels in Kaltura.

Ana­lyt­ics: Learn how to use Kaltura’s ana­lyt­ics tools to track video views and engage­ment.