This guide describes several common ways to use Kaltura to create, store, and publish video content in your Blackboard courses. This video can be used to present content, provide guidance, create teacher presence, prompt discussion, and enable authentic assessment. See the sections below for detailed instructions for uploading videos, capturing webcam video, indexing YouTube videos in your library, and capturing screen recordings. The final section describes ways that you might embed this content in your Blackboard course.
Students have access to these same tools via Blackboard, though the publishing steps are different for students as they will be submitting content to assignments, discussion posts, or other assessments based on your activity instructions. A "Student Version" of this guide that covers submission as a student is available for you to share with your students.
Use this feature to upload existing video, such as video captured on a video camera, smartphone, or another system such as a Collaborate session or a Teams meeting. The video is stored in your Kaltura My Media library for later publishing in your courses.
Use Kaltura Express Capture to record your webcam and microphone activity. This is useful for many purposes, including quick lectures, informal messages, sharing anecdotes or updates, and for introducing content.
The YouTube integration tool in Kaltura allows you to index and embed a public YouTube video within your Kaltura Media library for later use in your courses and playlists. The video is not downloaded and uploaded, rather is played through the Kaltura player.
Kaltura Capture is a robust screen recording tool that allows you to capture any combination of your screen activity, your webcam, and your microphone. This is useful for recording software demonstrations, slide-based presentations, document narration, and any combination of these.
Once you have created and uploaded your video to your Kaltura My Media Library, you can add the video to one of your courses. The instructions are slightly different for Original Course View and Ultra Course View.
In Blackboard Original courses, there are two primary ways to embed videos from the My-Media library to your course, by creating a link from the Course Build Menu, and by using the Mashup button in any rich text editor in the course (e.g. Discussion Forum/Thread, Assignment, Item, Quiz Question, etc.)
This is the simplest way to display your video in the course, this process creates a link in the course that students will click to see the video.
You can insert a playable thumbnail embed of a video in any rich text editing window in the course that has a Mashup button (e.g. Discussion Forum/Thread, Assignment, Item, Quiz Question, etc.). These instructions refer to an Item, but the instructions are essentially the same for Assignments, Discussion Forums, etc.
In Blackboard Ultra courses, there are two primary ways to embed videos from the My-Media library to your course, by creating a link from the Course Build Menu, and by using the Add Content button in any text editor in the course (e.g. Document, Discussion Forum/Thread, Assignment, Quiz Question, etc.)
This is the simplest way to display your video in the course, this process creates a link in the course that students will click to see the video.
You can insert a playable thumbnail embed of a video in any text window that has an Insert Content + button including Document, Discussion Thread, Assignment, Quiz Question, and Ultra Document in the course. These instructions describe creating a new Bb Ultra Document, however, you could also edit and existing Bb Ultra Document or other type of Blackboard item and follow the same steps.