Overview
These instructions are intended for Canvas students.
If your instructor creates a "text submission" assignment in Canvas, you're able to embed a video from your Kaltura media repository ("My Media") into your response. This tutorial walks you through a few ways you can create a video as well as how to embed it into the assignment.
Critical Concepts
- What is Kaltura? It's the third-party media hosting and delivery platform that's integrated into Canvas. If you click on "My Media" or "Media Gallery" in Canvas, you're using Kaltura. While instructors and students can access many of Kaltura's features in Canvas, all UCSD community members (including staff) can utilize MediaSpace (https://mediaspace.ucsd.edu), which allows for additional sharing options, channels, and privacy settings.
- You have unlimited media storage. Each user has unlimited media storage, though everything is subject to our media retention policy.
- You embed videos within Canvas using the rich content editor. Any time you see the rich content editor (the text box you can type in with a variety of formatting options), you're able to embed a video from your Kaltura media repository.
- Don't record your assignment video at the last minute. When you add a video to Kaltura, it needs to be processed on the back end, which prevents it from being viewed for a little while. So best not leave media-based assignments until the last minute!
Steps to Take
If your instructor has required or encouraged you to submit a video for a text submission assignment in Canvas, you'll need to do three main things:
We'll go over your recording options as well as the instructions for how to submit your video.
1. Record Your Video
As a UC San Diego student, you have several no-cost options available to you to record a video and upload it to your Kaltura media repository ("My Media"). Below are some options as well as links to any relevant tutorials, should you need to use them.
Kaltura Capture
Kaltura Capture is free screen/camera/microphone recording software that you can install on a Windows or Mac computer. All your recorded videos will end up in "My Media". Check out our tutorials below if needed:
- Install Kaltura Capture Within Canvas
- Record a Video with Kaltura Capture
- Use Kaltura Capture Annotations
Quick Capture
Quick Capture is an entirely web-based screen/camera/mic recording option, if you don't want to install Kaltura Capture on your computer and instead just want to record using your web browser. This option is good as long as you're recording videos under 10 minutes long. (Any longer than that and you risk filling up your browser cache and losing your recording.) All videos recorded with Quick Capture will end up in your "My Media." Here's our tutorial:
Zoom
UC San Diego has an optional integration set up between Zoom and Kaltura. If you opt in, any time you record a video to the Zoom cloud, it will automatically end up in Kaltura. (See our KBA listed below to learn how to opt in.) Whereas all your Zoom videos will be deleted from the Zoom cloud automatically after 30 days, your media in Kaltura will remain there indefinitely, as long as it is watched every so often. See our media retention policy for more information.
Upload a Video
If you've got a video that you've recorded with other software, it's pretty easy to add it to your media repository:
2. [Optional] Edit Your Video
You don't have a lot of video editing tools at your disposal with Kaltura, but you can at least trim your video using the Kaltura video editor.
3. Embed and Submit Your Video
Once you have a video in your Kaltura media repository ("My Media"), you're ready to embed and submit it.
- If you're not already, log into Canvas.
- Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
- Enter your active directory credentials.
- Enter the appropriate course, find the video submission assignment and click on it.
- Click Start Assignment.
- Click the three dots to expand the menu for the rich content editor.
- Click the Embed Kaltura Media button, which looks like a small wheel with multicolored spokes.
- In the window that appears, scroll through your list of media until you find the one you want to submit. Click </> Embed on its row.
Note that you can configure various things about your embedded video (such as the size and player type) by clicking the gear icon instead of </> Embed.
- After a moment, you should see your video populate within the rich content editor. You can add text (or anything else you want) above or below the video. Click Submit Assignment when you're ready.