Working with Videos in Canvas (Kaltura)

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
• Express Capture: a browser-based screen/camera/microphone recorder
• 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

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

So you've uploaded a video to Canvas. But now what? How do you make it visible to students? Check out our articles below to learn about various methods of publishing your videos.

• Publish vs. Embed: what each term means and what our recommended approach is
• Embedding videos: how to insert your video into a piece of instructional material
• Publishing videos: how to make your videos appear in (or disappear from) your course's Media Gallery
• 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"
• Moderating Media: how to make it so you control what ends up in the Media Gallery
• FAQs: frequently asked questions about presenting videos in Canvas

• Video analytics: data gathered on individual videos
• FAQs: frequently asked questions about Kaltura analytics within Canvas

Videos in Canvas

• "Access denied" or requests for authorization
• Can't delete media from "My Media"
• Published media not showing up in the Media Gallery
• Video is stuck processing
• Alternatives to using Kaltura to store and deliver videos
• Zoom videos missing from Kaltura

Kaltura Capture

• Kaltura Capture recording won't upload
• Kaltura Capture recording has audio and video out of sync
• "Screen area" recordings have black bars