Video Tools in Canvas

Video is a great way for instructors to engage students and reinforce learning. Whether you teach in-person or online, video can help you introduce yourself to your students, create course tours, capture mini lectures or interviews, demonstrate how to use technology or lab equipment, review and discuss tests, create collaborative assignments, and prepare content that helps you ensure learning continuity in the event of a campus closure. 

Kaltura

Kaltura enables instructors to create and share an unlimited number of videos and audio recordings within Canvas.

  • Use the express capture feature to record your own video or upload an existing one
  • Automatically convert videos into multiple formats
  • Ensure accessibility with easy-to-edit, machine-generated closed captions
  • Enhance learning with in-video links ("hotspots") to other topics in the video or external resources
  • Create video quizzes to reinforce student learning

Kaltura Overview

Browse Kaltura's key features and access links to additional information and resources.

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Express Capture

Learn how you can easily record your own short videos, then embed them in your Canvas course.

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Editing Videos

Explore the different ways you can edit your Kaltura videos in Canvas or through Kaltura's direct video editing tool.

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Adding "Hotspots"

Learn how to add hotspots in your video that link students to reading materials or other parts of a video.

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Creating a Video Quiz

Reinforce learning and engage students with a multiple-choice, true/false, or open-question video quiz.

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Editing Captions

Ensure the accessibility of your course videos by editing Kaltura's auto-generated captions.

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