Kaltura

Kaltura is a cloud-based video management system for storing, publishing, and streaming videos, video collections, and other media. The system integrates with Canvas, allowing faculty, staff, and students to create, upload, and share multimedia content with ease. Ideal for any class structure, Kaltura expands the reach and impact of traditional, web-enhanced, hybrid, flipped, and fully online courses.

About Kaltura

With Kaltura, the Instructors can upload media and record their screen or webcam. These features allow them to:

• Create video assignments
• Increase active learning through guided lessons
• Demonstrate concepts to help students better connect with material
• Jumpstart discussions on course topics and concepts
• Expand opportunities for critical thinking
• Introduce themselves and their course to students before classes start

Instructors will also have access to a personal media repository, and each course section will have a dedicated Kaltura Course Space.

By default, videos uploaded to Kaltura are private and inaccessible to anyone but the original content "owner". Kaltura empowers users to control how their videos are published and shared.

Eligibility

• Faculty and Staff: To access Kaltura at this time, you must enable the features in your Canvas course(s).
• Currently Enrolled Students: To make use of Kaltura via Canvas, you must be enrolled in a course where the instructor has activated this feature.

Kaltura Analytics

Kaltura Analytics provides perspective, not definitive information. Be careful not to use Kaltura Analytics as a sole measurement for attendance or for a participation grade. See below for more information.

View analytics about media usage

Kaltura Analytics allows media owners and co-editors to better understand how people are watching media recordings (video and audio, Kaltura Video Quizzes, and links to YouTube in Kaltura) published using Kaltura in Canvas. Details can include: 

• who has watched your media, from which geographic location, and what type of device they used
• how long people have watched
• which of your media are most popular
• specific domains and often specific web pages where your media is published and has been viewed

Publishing media and collecting user-level analytics

It is possible to view analytics down to the individual user level when Kaltura media has been published, and if it has been viewed by users in one of the following ways:

• In Canvas, add Kaltura media to a course:
  • Add media using the Kaltura button in the rich content editor
  • Add media to the Canvas course's Kaltura Course Space (Media Gallery)

  [Important] Limitations with user-level analytics

Kaltura Analytics provides perspective, not definitive information. Be careful not to use Kaltura Analytics as a sole measurement for attendance or for a participation grade. 

It is important to understand the Kaltura Analytics does have limitations and may not be 100% accurate. The data should not be used to justify grades or determine participation. Instead, this should help you better understand how students are engaging with your course media.

If the analytics do not show a particular student viewing your media in a specific timeframe, that does not mean they did not try to view it:

• It is possible Kaltura could not collect information about someone's viewership. There have been cases where specific browsers, browser plugins, or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have blocked Kaltura Analytics from collecting data.
• If you set a media recording in Kaltura MediaSpace as unlisted, then paste a link to that media in Canvas or elsewhere, users who view the recording through that link will appear in Kaltura Analytics as Unknown.
• If you allow viewers to download your media, when viewers view downloaded media on their computer/device, data about their viewership will not be sent back to Kaltura Analytics.

Viewing Kaltura's analytics for a single recording

1. Go to My Media:
   • Log in to Canvas, then from the Account menu, select My Kaltura Media
2. Locate the media you are interested in. To the right of the title, select the View Analytics icon.
   • Note: If you cannot find the View Analytics icon, try making your browser window wider.
3. Continue to the Analytics Filters section below.

Viewing analytics for all Kaltura media in a Canvas course

1. Access your Canvas course:
   • As a teacher, designer, or TA in Canvas, go to Kaltura Course Space on the course menu. If you don't see the Kaltura Course Space, refer to How To: Enable Kaltura in your Canvas Course
     • Note: When you enable the Media Gallery in your Canvas course, your students will be able to view it as well. However, only media you specifically add or approve is visible in the Media Gallery.
2. In the upper right, from the Actions dropdown menu, select Analytics.

Analytics filters

When using Kaltura Analytics, consider the following:

Date Filter

By default, the given date range shows the last 30 days, but does not include today. 

• To change the time period and/or date range, select the Date Range in the upper right, pick a new date range, then select Apply to filter by those dates.
• To include today's date, select Since Creation or enter a specific date range. 

Other Filters

To use other filters, expand the Filter menu.

• In analytics for a Canvas course, or when looking at My Analytics for all media you own, you can also filter by:
  • Media Type: whether the media is video, audio, and/or images
  • Tags: specific tags you may have entered for the media
  • Location: Includes Country, Region, and City

Kaltura Reach Captioning and Enrichment

The Kaltura REACH video captioning and enrichment suite offers automatic machine generated transcriptions for all videos. Captions are automatically delivered directly within the Kaltura interface in your video portal, and can be edited within the video for quick review and modification ensuring your videos are fully accessible to all viewers.

Kaltura Virtual Classroom 

Kaltura Virtual Classroom provides an experience purposely built for online instruction. With one click, instructors and learners can engage as if they are in the same room, no installation needed! Engage your learners through interactive tools like a whiteboard, screen sharing, breakout rooms, real time notes, live quizzes and more. 

As a teacher, you can collect attendance data and quiz results from the Kaltura Virtual Classroom. Click here to view the Virtual Classroom Reporting Guide.

Instructions you can share with students joining your virtual classroom:

• Log into Canvas – https://www.utc.edu/learn and click on your course from the Dashboard or Courses list.
• Look for Kaltura Course Space on the course menu.
• Students will see the following screen the first time they click Kaltura Course Space or My Kaltura Media.
  
• Students will need to click Authorize.
• After the Media Gallery loads, you should see the Join Meeting button.
  • You can join the meeting/virtual classroom only after the teacher has started the meeting.
  • If you cannot see the Join Meeting button, then you need to maximize your browser window, as it may be hidden.

Lecture Capture

Kaltura Lecture Capture makes it possible to create engaging, interactive videos on a schedule or on the fly, live or on-demand, and share to your Canvas courses or automatically publish to your Kaltura Course Space.

UTC Information Technology is working hard to equip classrooms on campus for live lecture capture. More information will be shared as it becomes available.

• Click here to visit the classroom technology page
• Click here to learn about the lecture capture hardware being installed in classrooms
• Click here for a complete list of rooms with lecture capture technology

Learn more about using Kaltura

• Kaltura Video App Course for Canvas - Great Resource to Get Started!
• HOW TO: Enable Kaltura in your Canvas course
• HOW TO: Embed Kaltura content in your Canvas course
• Kaltura Learning Portal
• Kaltura Resources
• Video Library