Getting Started

Kaltura Room (for­mer­ly Kaltura Vir­tu­al Class­room) is NIC’s offi­cial web-con­fer­enc­ing tool for online teach­ing and is the only web-con­fer­enc­ing plat­form approved for online instruc­tion at NIC. Because it is ful­ly web-based and cloud-host­ed, no app or soft­ware instal­la­tion is required, but it is imper­a­tive to have a strong inter­net con­nec­tion and an updat­ed web brows­er for the best expe­ri­ence.

Kaltura Room is ful­ly inte­grat­ed with Bright­space, which means every course auto­mat­i­cal­ly includes its own vir­tu­al room. Instruc­tors can cre­ate addi­tion­al rooms for office hours or oth­er activ­i­ties, and stu­dents can cre­ate their own rooms for group work or con­nect­ing with class­mates.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE:

• Kaltura Room sup­ports up to 100 par­tic­i­pants, with a max­i­mum of 25 on stage and the remain­ing 75 as view­ers.
• Kaltura Room is acces­si­ble on mobile devices through a brows­er — no app required. Most fea­tures are avail­able, includ­ing chat, rais­ing hands, join­ing the stage, and par­tic­i­pat­ing in break­out rooms. How­ev­er, some mod­er­a­tion and advanced pre­sen­ter tools (like sto­ry­board edit­ing, lay­out changes, and screen shar­ing) are view-only on mobile.