Documentation:Kaltura/Uses and Benefits
Uses and Benefits
Kaltura is more than just a video storage platform. It has a suite of features that extend its flexibility based on your own teaching and learning context.
Media Creation
- Upload Video – upload videos to Connect and add them to a gallery.
- Integrate Videos – add video to assignments, tests, quizzes, forums, blogs, and more, directly from the Kaltura Mashups feature within the content editor. You can select from existing content in My Media and Faculty Repository, upload videos or record them on the fly. The same flow exists wherever you have access to the text editor. Alternatively, users can easily ingest and display video as a standalone course item through Tools.
- Record and upload video from webcam - record your laptop's built-in webcam without the need for new software.
- Clipping Tool - students and faculty can create video clips from existing content. Remove redundant sections or create highlights from the longer video (requires owner’s permission).
Media Management
- "My Media'" Gallery– every user has a private media destination where content can be uploaded, managed, clipped, assigned and shared (based on user permissions).
- Search Capabilities - perform search and filtering on video metadata (e.g. titles, descriptions, tags) and save searches for future use.
- Reuse Materials - instructors and students can easily reuse and repurpose videos across multiple courses.
- Ownership - You have the option to enable or restrict what other people can do with your videos when shared such as clipping and embedding.
Sharing
- "Course Gallery" - enables course members to search and view rich media assigned to a course.
- Faculty Repository - instructors can easily share content with each other and the larger UBC community by making their media public in the searchable Faculty Repository. The repository also allows faculty to use library/curriculum media content for their courses.
- Share Videos - instructors can embed their videos elsewhere to an external site, blog or any page that accepts HTML (ie: a website, a blog, etc.).
- Accessibility - supports playback with ADA/508 compliant video players.
- Optimal Playback Experience: mobile playback – including iPhones, iPads, Android and Blackberry devices, with automatic device detection and Flash-HTML5 fallback.