Kaltura: Brightspace

TIP: Access Kaltur­a’s Learn­ing Help Cen­tre for very help­ful step-by-step instruc­tions or Kaltura Learn­ing Videos for a col­lec­tion of videos  — both will present cur­rent ver­sions of sup­port in how to use the plat­form

The videos on this page per­tain to using Kaltura with­in Bright­space, NIC’s dig­i­tal learn­ing envi­ron­ment. Kaltura My Media is a per­son­’s col­lec­tion of their media (video, audio, images) and is also the loca­tion where you can down­load the Kalture Cap­ture free record­ing tool, upload media, add YouTube videos and embed media into any pages you have edit­ing access to (via the edit tool bar).

Kaltura My Media is acces­si­ble to all NIC employ­ees and stu­dents via a pub­lic-fac­ing NIC Medi­a­Space loca­tion at https://video.nic.bc.ca (like YouTube) with NIC login and pass­word OR via Bright­space after log­ging in at https://mycourses.nic.bc.ca via a num­ber of door­ways. With­in Bright­space you can access your Kaltura My Media loca­tion via two main door­ways: 1) via the blue nav­i­ga­tion bar on the main Bright­space land­ing page OR 2) via the blue nav­i­ga­tion bar with­in every course — see the end of the blue bar > More > Kaltura My Media. You share media via the INSERT STUFF icon on the edit tool­bar that stu­dents will find in the assign­ments, dis­cus­sion and email areas and instruc­tors will find in the con­tent, check­list, quiz, assign­ments, dis­cus­sion and email areas.

Kaltura Overview: What You Could Use Kaltura for at NIC

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.

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

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

BRIGHTSPACE: Accessing Kaltura My Media via Two Locations

This video hones in on the TWO main loca­tions where you can get access to your My Media col­lec­tion of videos, where you can upload video etc. How­ev­er, with­in the INSERT STUFF tool on the edit tool­bar you can access your My Media through anoth­er third loca­tion in Bright­space.

Brightspace: Setting Up and Using Kaltura Capture to Record Video

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

BRIGHTSPACE: How to Add a YouTube Video to Kaltura My Media

This video shows you how to upload a YouTube video into Kaltura.

Kaltura: How to Upload a Video to Kaltura My Media via Brightspace

How to add a thumbnail to your Kaltura Video in Kaltura My Media via Brightspace

How to Edit the Captions (from Closed Captioning) in your Video

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, this video shows you how to edit those cap­tions.

How to Embed a video into a HTML Template Page

Kaltura Media Gallery in Brightspace — Uses of And Playlists to Sort