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Kaltura | Zoom | Canvas Conferences (BigBlueButton)
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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Web-conferencing tools not only provide scheduling and location flexibility but can encourage collaboration and enhance communication with students. Invite a guest speaker, take a virtual field trip, conduct an assignment review or tutoring session, hold office hours, or record asynchronous course content.
Zoom
Zoom is a web-conferencing tool that can be accessed both inside and outside of Canvas. Whether you use it for class meetings or virtual office hours, the articles below will help you take advantage of Zoom's powerful feature set. We recommend allowing plenty of familiarization time before your first session — even if you've used online conferencing/webinar tools before.
Canvas Conferences (BigBlueButton)
BigBlueButton is Canvas's built-in web-conferencing tool. Use it for synchronous virtual lectures and office hours. Because of its powerful feature set, we recommend allowing plenty of familiarization time before using BigBlueButton in your class — even if you've used web-conferencing tools before.
Overview
Browse BigBlueButton's key features and access links to additional information and resources for instructors and students.
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Getting Started
Get all the basics for getting started with BigBlueButton, from recording conferences to uploading presentations and launching polls.