Canvas guide: Kaltura-Instructor-Guide.pdf

Kaltura (also known as MyMedia) is the video hosting platform available at Gonzaga.

All faculty, staff, and students can login to their account at mymedia.gonzaga.edu to upload or access their media collection.
This guide will cover how to access and add Kaltura to Canvas. See the guide on creating/uploading media in Kaltura if you need steps for adding videos to Kaltura.

My Media – Canvas Menu

The My Media tab in the Canvas menu is a direct link to your Kaltura account:

Rich Content Editor: Quick Plugin

You can add media from Kaltura to any area of a Canvas course that has the Rich Content Editor (RCE) interface when editing the item – this includes the syllabus, assignments, pages, etc. There are two different ways: the quick plugin tool or the embed tool. Here are the steps to use the quick plugin option:

1. 1. Open the area you want to add media to and click the Edit button
  2. In the RCE, click on the plugin icon and select Embed Kaltura Media (click the View All option if you do not see Kaltura):
  3. Your Kaltura account will open in a pop-up window where you can see all of your videos – click on the Embed button next to the video you want to add to the area:
  4. The video will display in the editor box
  5. Save once you are finished editing

Rich Content Editor: Embed Option

First, you need to get the embed code from Kaltura:

1. 1. Open your Kaltura account: mymedia.gonzaga.edu and click on the video you want to share
  2. Under the video, select the Share and then the Embed options:
  3. You will see options to set start and end times, size of the video to display, and two Player Skins to choose from. Note: the Gonzaga Default skin does not provide a download option for the video in Canvas while the grey skin will have a download icon available with the video.
  4. Once you have these options set, copy all of the code displayed in the box, it will look something like this:

Next, we need to add that embed code to the Canvas course:

1. 1. Open the area you want to add media to and click the Edit button
  2. Click on the embed (little cloud) icon in the toolbox - if you do not see the cloud, you may need to click the three dots to see any hidden tools. The embed icon is the last tool in the toolbox:
  3. Paste the code that you copied over in Kaltura (my media) into the pop-up box that displays and click submit

Student Access

Students also have Kaltura accounts and can add their media to the RCE editing box when posting to a discussion board, if assignments allow text-based submissions, and editing pages. Here is the student guide to Kaltura.

Course Media Gallery

You can create a media space for an individual course using Kaltura. First, make sure the Course Gallery option is available in the course menu:

1. 1. Click on Settings at the bottom of the course navigation menu
  2. Select the Navigation tab
  3. Move the Course Gallery option from the bottom group to the top group
  4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the screen

Next, set some options for the Media Gallery:

1. 1. Click on Course Gallery in the course navigation menu
  2. Click on the Channel Actions button in the top-right corner:
  3. Select Edit and then you can enter a description of the gallery if you like
  4. Options available to enable:
    - Moderate content – media must be approved before posting
    - Enable comments for videos
    - Keep comments private
    - Display embedded media – this will add all Kaltura videos used in the course to the gallery

Analytics

1. Click on Course Gallery in the course navigation menu
2. Click on the Channel Actions button in the top-right corner
3. Select Analytics

On the next screen you will see statistics for the overall media library. Scroll down to see analytics for each individual video.

Statistic highlights