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Kaltura Documentation

Article ID: 198
Last updated: 4 Dec, 2024

Kaltura Capture: Kaltura Capture desktop recorder is an easy-to-use tool for recording videos and capturing your screen. It's perfect for creating tutorials, demos, presentations, or capturing any on-screen activities.

Download and Install Kaltura Capture Software to a Personal Computer

Download and Install Kaltura Capture Software to a CCSU Computer

Kaltura Capture Student Guide

Kaltura Capture- Download MP4 Format from Media Space
♦ How to download videos from Kaltura into MP4 format.


Using Kaltura in Blackboard:

My Media: My Media is your private area where all your uploaded Kaltura media is stored
Accessing My Media Gallery Outside of a Course Shell (LTI)
♦ This guide will demonstrate how to access the Kaltura My Media Gallery outside of a Course Shell.
Ordering Captions using Kaltura in Blackboard (LTI)
♦ Captioning in Kaltura Machine Captioning, also known as ASR, is based on algorithms that don't involve human intervention. There is an average of 85% accuracy, and a turnaround time of up to two hours. The service provides searchable video content and features the ability to edit the transcript and submit again for alignment. The machine engine learns from its mistakes, quality improves over time and custom vocabularies can be added to improve specific industry acronyms, product names, subjects, and people.

Working with the Media Gallery (Course Gallery): If you want your students to access a series of media files related to their class, the use this method to create a course Media Gallery in a course shell. Any media you add here will be viewable to only those students in the course.

Adding Media to your Course Media Gallery (LTI)
♦ This guide will demonstrate how to upload media to your Course Media Gallery exclusively accessible to students enrolled in this course. Follow this guide once you add the “Course Video Gallery” to the course menu. If you need instruction on how to do so, check out our guide titled “Adding a Media Gallery to your Course (LTI)”

Adding a Media Gallery to your Course (LTI)
♦ This guide will demonstrate how to include the Kaltura My Media Gallery (LTI) in your course menu. This enables your students to access the videos you choose to share with them. If you want to know how to add videos to a course gallery, check out our guide “Add Media to your Course Gallery (LTI)”.


Add a single Media item to your course: If you want students to only view single media items in your course, rather than a whole gallery, use this method.

Add a Media item as a Thumbnail to your Course Shell
♦ This document will teach you how to embed media such as images, videos, and video quizzes using the Kaltura Embed Media (LTI) to a Blackboard content area.

Add a single Media Item to your Course Shell
♦ These steps show how to embed media (video, video quiz or image) in the Blackboard Item tool that embeds the media so that it can be directly viewed in the Content Area.


Kaltura Video Quiz: Video Quiz allows creators to add multiple-choice, True / False, and open-ended questions into videos using an intuitive editor. 

How to create a Video Quiz in Kaltura (LTI)
♦ This document will teach you how to create a video quiz using Kaltura. Quiz questions can be inserted into a video to be answered by students. You can then embed the quiz into your Blackboard course. Grades are automatically entered into the Blackboard Grade Center.

Embedding a Kaltura Video Quiz (LTI) into an Item
♦ Using the Kaltura Video Quiz (LTI) will allow you to add Video Quizzes directly to your course by embedding them as an Item.

Article ID: 198
Last updated: 4 Dec, 2024
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