Kaltura Video in Blackboard

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To access Kaltura and mange your media collection, login to video.syr.edu with your SU NetID. For information about uploading, editing, and publishing media, see Kaltura at Syracuse University. For information about sharing Kaltura videos through Blackboard, see below.

Add Kaltura Content to Blackboard Course

Kaltura is the supported video and media repository for Syracuse University faculty, staff, and students. Kaltura videos can be embedded into Blackboard courses either as standalone content or within Blackboard documents, discussions, assignments, etc.

Create Kaltura Media Content Market LTI

To add a Kaltura video to your course, click on the purple plus sign icon in the course content area and select "Content Market" from the dropdown list.

Screenshot of Content area with arrow pointing to purple line with dropdown menu with options for create, auto generate modules, copy content, upload, cloud storage, content market which is in purple box to highlight it, and content collection

Select "Kaltura Media" from the alphabetical content market list.

Kaltura Media Content Market LTI screenshot

Search or Add Media to Kaltura

The "My Media" tab displays media that you have previously uploaded to Kaltura (video.syr.edu) or media that you have been added to as a collaborator.

Select media from the “My Media” section
Use the Kaltura Media Search to locate your item, using the search magnifying glass
Or upload a new video using the "add new" button in the upper right of the page

My Media tab in the Kaltura Blackboard integration screenshot highlighting the search magnifying glass and the Add New button.

Embed Media in the Blackboard Course Content area

Select the Embed Settings gear icon to the right of the video to review and/ or if changes to the video display settings are needed
Select a video to add to your Blackboard course by clicking the "Embed" button to the right of the video
Video lives in the Course Content area or within the Content Item you created in Blackboard

Kaltura Embedded Video Example screenshot lives in Blackboard Course Content area

Embed Settings

Choose Player: Include or Exclude transcript

Transcripts that are included are available for download

Transcripts are not available when Thumbnail Embed is selected

Select: Max Embed Size
Toggle on/off: Thumbnail Embed
Toggle on/off: AutoPlay
Select: Set as my default settings for my media type - if you would like to keep these settings for all embedded media from Kaltura
Start and End Time: Make selection of media for students to focus, but this will not prevent students from watching the entire video

Kaltura Media Settings

You can adjust more settings for your media in the Actions Menu, or explore user engagement by checking Analytics at Kaltura on http://Video.syr.edu .

More info on Kaltura Action menu and settings can be found here: https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kms-actions-menu

The options displayed in the Actions menu and Editing tab are specific to Syracuse University video portal configuration.

Additional Resources

Kaltura at Syracuse University

Kaltura at Syracuse University in Blackboard

Kaltura Knowledge Center

Blackboard also has help pages for the integration within Blackboard with Kaltura.