Kaltura Video Overview

As of Jan­u­ary 2026, NIC is mov­ing from the Cana­di­an Region­al Cloud to the US-based Kaltura SaaS, which will align NIC with all major plat­form updates. While we are aligned with the US SaaS, Cana­di­an con­tent will con­tin­ue to be host­ed on Cana­di­an servers. Kaltura oper­ates under provin­cial and fed­er­al shared ser­vice agree­ments for post-sec­ondary insti­tu­tions. NIC’s Kaltura instance was ini­tial­ly set up at UBC, inte­grat­ed into Black­board Learn, and soft-launched in May 2020. It was then moved to the Cana­di­an Region­al Cloud in Mon­tre­al in March 2022 and rein­te­grat­ed into Bright­space. After train­ing and con­fig­u­ra­tion activ­i­ties, a full set­up of the Medi­a­Space front-end was com­plet­ed in June 2020.

Many of the 25 post-sec­ondary insti­tu­tions in BC have their own Medi­a­Space instal­la­tions, often inte­grat­ed into their learn­ing man­age­ment sys­tems. 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?

NIC employ­ees and stu­dents can under­take any of the fol­low­ing activ­i­ties through My Media in Bright­space or through NIC Medi­a­Space. Stu­dents and fac­ul­ty can share video with their class­es via Brightspace’s Media Gallery or through an embed­ded video link.

This 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.

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

Uses of Kaltura for Instructors

  • Embed­ding a video to a HTML page in con­tent area
  • Embed­ding a video to an assign­men­t’s instruc­tions or a dis­cus­sion’s instruc­tion area
  • Adding video to the course Media Gallery for stu­dents to see in one spot

Uses of Kaltura for Students

  • Mak­ing a video to intro­duce them­selves to their class by embed­ding it in a dis­cus­sion post OR adding to the course Media Gallery
  • Cre­at­ing a video or pod­cast for an assign­ment and then embed­ding that video 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