Kaltura
Kaltura allows you to create lecture videos with two layers: One of your powerpoint, and one of yourself talking. There are many other options in Kaltura, such as closed-captioning, linking to URLs, embedding quizzes, and even creating interactive videos. You can even track whether your students have watched your lectures.
Kaltura Quick Start Guide (PDF)
First: Login with your Lancer ID and password to the CBU MediaSpace Website
Creating, editing, sharing and embedding videos:
- How to download and install the Kaltura Capture Tool
- How to create a video in Kaltura
- Ensure that your screen capture is large by default, and your face is small, picture in picture
- Upload a new thumbnail image for your video
- Fix the closed-captioning on your video
- Edit your Kaltura video (cut something out of the beginning, middle, or end)
- How to embed a Kaltura video in Blackboard
- Change your video from "private" to "unlisted" - share the link, add collaborators.
- See who has watched your video lectures
- Creating Chapter Markers
Mac Users: After installation and before recording your first video
Please follow these steps
Go to the Apple Menu (Apple Logo in upper left of your screen) then open System Preferences. Click on Security and Privacy, and the Privacy.
- Click on Screen Recording.
- Allow Kaltura Capture to record your screen.
This might require admin access, please contact the Help Desk for assistance with that. Try a quick 2 minute video to test and make sure it records and uploads properly.
Quizzes
Troubleshoot: Sometimes a student takes a quiz, but the grade is not reported to Blackboard. Why? The student may have to change settings in his or her browser:
Organizing videos
- Kaltura does not have folder structures. Instead, you can organize your videos into channels. See this video for info about making channels.
How students will use Kaltura
- Teach students how to use Kaltura to capture a video for a discussion or assignment in Blackboard
- How to use the Search feature in Kaltura to locate Chapters, words and phrases spoken in a video
How to enable downloading of your Kaltura videos (and how to download them