Working with Videos in Canvas (Kaltura)
Discover tutorials and troubleshooting focused on videos that you use in Canvas via the Kaltura media tools.
By design or by necessity, many instructors are teaching online at UCSD. Below you'll find a variety of resources that will help you use the features of Canvas and Kaltura to help you share and produce high-quality videos yourself more easily.
Watch the video below to get an overview of Kaltura, our partner who provides video services within Canvas.
Adding Videos to Your Course
Our instance of Canvas offers a variety of ways to add or create videos for your course in Canvas. Find a method that appeals to you, and click on the link to learn how.
- Data Retention Policy: how long we'll hang onto your Kaltura media
- Dual-Stream Videos: entries with 2 separately-controllable videos streams
- Kaltura Capture: learn about the screen/video/microphone capture software available to you
- Types of videos: types of videos you can add to your course
- Uploading videos: how to upload a video file
- YouTube videos: adding and embedding YouTube videos
- Zoom: how the Kaltura-Zoom integration works
Editing Videos
While neither Canvas nor Kaltura Capture offers expansive postproduction capabilities, there are some things you can (and even should) do with your videos once you've uploaded them to your course. Check out our tutorials below to learn more.
- Captions: how to add and edit captions
- Chapters: how to add and delete chapter markers
- Downloading videos: how to download your own videos
- Hotspots: how to add clickable text boxes to your videos
- In-video quizzes: how to add quiz questions into a video
- Making cuts: how to remove portions of your video
- Replacing videos: how to swap out your video for another one
- Sharing videos: how to allow others to use or edit your videos
- Thumbnails: how to change the still image preview of your videos
- FAQs: frequently-asked questions about editing videos in Canvas
Presenting Videos to Students
- Embedding videos: how to insert your video into a piece of instructional material
- Enabling downloads: how to configure your videos so your students can download them
- Playlists: how to create, edit, and embed collections of media called "playlists"
- Publishing videos: how to make your videos appear in your course's Media Gallery