Kaltura Tutorials

There are a variety of ways to add content to your Kaltura media repository ("My Media"). Below are links to related tutorials. Unless otherwise noted, each tutorial applies to instructions on how to perform the action in both Canvas as well as MediaSpace.

Manual Uploads

• Upload a Video to "My Media" (Kaltura): how to upload a media file from your computer to your Kaltura media repository
• Add a YouTube Video to "My Media" in Canvas: how to add a YouTube entry to your Kaltura media repository

Kaltura Capture

Kaltura Capture is a piece of cross-platform software that allows you to capture your screen, camera, and microphone. It's available to everyone at UCSD with active directory credentials.

• Install Kaltura Capture Within Canvas: how to find the installation link within Canvas
• Install Kaltura Capture Within MediaSpace: how to find the installation link within MediaSpace
• Record a Video with Kaltura Capture
• Use Kaltura Capture Annotations: how to add text, arrows, and other annotations during your recording

Quick / Express Capture

Quick Capture (aka "Express Capture") is a web-based application you can use to capture your screen, camera and microphone. Because it's web-based, you don't have to install any software, but you should keep your videos short when using it.

• Record a Video using Quick Capture in Canvas
• Record a Video using Quick Capture in MediaSpace

The Zoom-Kaltura Integration

UC San Diego has implemented an integration between Zoom and Kaltura: any time you record a video to the Zoom cloud, the recording automatically ends up in your Kaltura media repository. There are some ways you can take advantage of this integration.

• About the Zoom-Kaltura Integration: what the Zoom-Kaltura integration means to you
• Record a Video to the Zoom Cloud: how to record a video using Zoom that will automatically end up in your "My Media"
• Create a Dual-Stream Kaltura video Using Zoom: how to create a Kaltura entry that has two different video sources, using Zoom

There are a variety of ways to edit your Kaltura media. Below are links to related tutorials. Unless otherwise noted, each tutorial applies to instructions on how to perform the action in both Canvas as well as MediaSpace.

General Topics

• Trim a Kaltura Video: how to make cuts to your Kaltura media entry
• Replace a Kaltura Video: how to upload a new video file to an existing Kaltura entry
• Duplicate a Kaltura Entry: create a copy of your Kaltura entry
• Split a Kaltura Video into Two Separate Videos: how to use the video editor to chunk your videos

Captions

All Kaltura entries automatically receive machine captions. Users are able to edit these captions in a variety of ways.

• Edit Captions on the Web for a Kaltura Video: how to use Kaltura's web-based closed caption editor
• Edit Captions on Your Computer for a Kaltura Video: how to download your captions, edit them in a text editor on your computer, and upload them back to the entry
• Hide Captions from the Kaltura Player: how to keep captions attached to the entry, but not allow them to be a selectable option in the media player
• Delete Captions from a Kaltura Entry: how to permanently remove a caption file from a Kaltura entry
• Request Machine Captions for Kaltura Media: under what conditions you can request new machine captions, and how to do so
• Edit Captions Efficiently: tips for ways to expedite the process of caption editing
• Download a Transcript for a Kaltura Video: how to get a text-only copy (no timecodes) of the words spoken in your video
• Convert a Text Transcript to Captions for a Kaltura Video: how to upload a text-only file (.txt) to an entry and have Kaltura generate automatically generate time-based captions

Chapters

If desired, you can add chapters to your Kaltura media entries. This can make them easier for your viewers to navigate, particularly if the videos are on the long side.

• Add Chapters to Kaltura Media
• Delete a Chapter from Kaltura Media

Downloading

• Download Your Kaltura Video: how to download an entry you own (or for which you're a co-editor)
• Download Child Entries of Multi-Stream Kaltura Videos in MediaSpace: how to download the "other" video stream for a dual-stream Kaltura entry

Hotspots

You can add text boxes that layer on top of your video. They can be URLs, they can jump the user to another part of the video, or they can just act as a text label.

• Add a URL Hotspot to a Kaltura Video: how to add a textbox in a video that, when clicked, will take users to the URL you've entered
• Add a "Time in This Video" Hotspot to a Kaltura Video: how to add a textbox in a video that, when clicked, will take users to a specific time in the video
• Add Onscreen Text to a Kaltura Video: how to add a textbox in a video that isn't clickable (basically a label)
• Delete a Hotspot

Stitching Videos

As of 26 June 2024, Kaltura users can "stitch" media together - that is, combine entries together to make longer entries.

• Stitch Together Kaltura Media

Thumbnails

Kaltura allows media owners (and co-editors) to change the still image you see in the video player before "play" is clicked (commonly known as a thumbnail).

• Add a Thumbnail to Kaltura Media
• Create Your Own Thumbnail for Kaltura Media: how to use PowerPoint to create your own thumbnail from scratch

Kaltura users can share videos in a variety of different ways. Within Canvas, this is often within the context of courses and assignments, but MediaSpace allows for channel-based organization as well as wider dissemination options for your entries.

General Topics

• Add Collaborators to Kaltura Media: how to give specific users viewing, editing, and/or publishing access to a video

Channels

Kaltura allows users to organize their content into channels, though this is only possible within MediaSpace.

• Create a MediaSpace Channel
• Enable Channel Collaboration: how to set up your channel so that selected channel members automatically get co-editor and/or co-publisher access to media published to the channel
• Share a Kaltura Video Published to a MediaSpace Channel: how to get the link to a video within a channel (assuming that the recipient has access to the channel)

Downloading Media

• Download a Video in a Media Gallery: how to download a video within a Media Gallery (for which the owner has enabled downloads)
• Download an Embedded Video in Canvas: how to download a video in Canvas that's been embedded into a piece of instructional material (like a Canvas "page"), provided the owner has made it downloadable

Embedding Media

As with most video services, Kaltura allows you to "embed" your videos on web pages. In Canvas, the integration makes this very easy with a button in the rich content editor that allows you to easily drop in one of your videos. But you can grab embed codes to drop onto websites (to which you have access) within MediaSpace.

• Embed Kaltura Media on a Page in Canvas: how to use the rich content editor to easily insert one of your videos from "My Media" onto just about any editable page in Canvas
• Get an External Embed Code for Kaltura Media: how to get an embed code for any of your Kaltura media, which you can use on external websites (not in Canvas)

Enabling Others to Download Your Media

Your media is not downloadable to any other users by default, but you can change this both with embedded and published videos.

• Enable Downloads for Published Kaltura Media: how to allow viewers to download your media that's been published either to a Media Gallery or a MediaSpace channel
• Enable Downloads for Embedded Videos in Canvas: how to allow students in your Canvas course to download videos that you've embedded into course elements within your module

Playlists

You can group together two or more Kaltura media entries into a playlist. The only catch is that playlists live in a Media Gallery or channel - you can't keep them in "My Media."

• Create a Playlist of Kaltura Media in Canvas: how to make a playlist visible in a course's Media Gallery in Canvas
• Create a Playlist in MediaSpace: how to make a playlist that's visible in a MediaSpace channel
• Manage a Playlist of Kaltura Media in Canvas: how to edit an existing playlist
• Edit a Playlist in MediaSpace: how to reorder, remove, or add additional items to an existing playlist in a MediaSpace channel

Publishing Media

When you publish a Kaltura entry In Canvas, it makes it visible within the course's "Media Gallery." When you publish it in MediaSpace, it makes it visible within a channel.

• Publish Kaltura Media to a Media Gallery: how to make one of your entries in "My Media" visible in a course's Media Gallery
• Unpublish Media from a Media Gallery: how to remove a Kaltura entry from a Media Gallery (but not delete it)
• Unpublish Media from a MediaSpace Channel: how to add media visible within a channel
• Set a Publication Schedule for Kaltura Media: how to make your media visible in a channel or Media Gallery only between a certain date and time
• Create an Unlisted Link to Kaltura Media: make it so you can send a media link to anyone, whether or not they have UCSD credentials
• Moderate a Kaltura Media Gallery: how to make it so instructors or TAs have to approve all media published to a Canvas course's Media Gallery

Kaltura captures a basic set of video analytics that can provide insight on how your media are being used.

• View Analytics for a Kaltura Media Entry: look at data on individual media entries
• View Analytics for a Canvas Media Gallery or MediaSpace Channel: data on a collection of videos within either a Canvas course or a channel in MediaSpace

Interested in creating some video-based assignments for your students? Here are some tutorials on how to set them up.

Kaltura In-Video Quizzes

Kaltura offers the ability for media owner (and co-editors) to layer on simple questions on top of an existing video (multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and reflection questions).

• Insert Quiz Questions into a Kaltura Video: how to add simple quiz questions to an existing Kaltura video using the video editor
• See In-Video Quiz Responses: where to find students' responses to your quiz questions
• Integrate a Kaltura In-Video Quiz with the Canvas Gradebook: how to create a Canvas "assignment" that auto-grades students' responses on a Kaltura in-video quiz and inputs them into the gradebook
• Remove a Student's Attempt on a Kaltura In-Video Quiz

Assignments that Use Videos

Below are some tutorials on how to create assignments in Canvas that leverage videos, but don't actually use Kaltura's in-video quiz functionality.

• Create a Video Submission Assignment: how to create an assignment where students can embed a video as a response
• Embed Kaltura Media Into a Text Submission Assignment in Canvas: instructions for students on how to embed a video into a text submission assignment