All students, faculty, and staff have access to Kaltura My Media and Kaltura MediaSpace. This page covers more of the tools available to faculty from within their Blackboard course, such as video analytics and video quizzes.

Through Kaltura My Media, you can upload or delete your own content (such as locally saved Zoom recordings), request ASR captions in various languages, create video quizzes, and more. Kaltura My Media can be accessed through the Tools area of Blackboard’s base navigation, or through the Course Tools area of your course menu.

Below are the steps to access it through Blackboard’s base navigation.

1. Log in to Blackboard at fairfield.blackboard.com

2. Go to Tools in the base navigation

3. Choose Kaltura My Media

4. The first time you open this module you will need to Allow this Integration.

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1. Navigate to Fairfield University MediaSpace and login via the people icon on the top-right side of the page.

2. Select +Create in the top right; then select Upload.

3. Choose a file to upload

4. Provide a descriptive title. This will be useful later on if you re-use the video in another class or for a video quiz.

   1. Optional: Provide a description

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5. After the video has fully uploaded, choose Save.

6. Select Go To Media to view the Video Editing screen to update the metadata or captions, or choose Go To My Media to view your full My Media collection. Please note that all videos are automatically captioned in English. You can request new captions or edit the English captions after they have finished processing (about 30 minutes after the video is in “Ready” status). See Request Captions on this page for more information.

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Faculty Only: When a video is embedded from the Kaltura mashup tool into a course content area it is automatically published the course Media Gallery. Benefits of publishing to the course Media Gallery from My Media first include minimizing the time spent searching for a particular video, as you can embed videos from the Media Gallery using the Kaltura Media Mashup tool.

1. Check the checkbox next to any videos you want published in one or more courses. Then, choose Actions in the top right and Publish.

2. On the next screen, select the course(s) or organization(s) the video(s) should be published in.

3. Now that the films have been published to your course gallery, you will be able to easily find them when using the Kaltura Mashup tool to Embed Existing Kaltura Content (Including Feature Films) in a content area.

All videos uploaded to Kaltura are automatically captioned in English. The following guide will walk you through requesting captions in another language and editing your existing captions.

If you upload a video that is not spoken in English, you may want to followed these steps to access the caption tool and remove the English captions, as well as request captions in the spoken language.

1. Select the check box next to the video(s) you need captions for.

2. Choose Actions in the top right, then Caption & Enrich

3. On the Order Captions & Enrichment Services screen, select the language the video is recorded in (the default selection is English).

4. Select Submit.

   1. Supported languages include English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Contact Academic Computing if you have a need for additional language support.

   2. There is a 30 minute turnaround time for most videos and the video player will be updated to display captions as soon as they are available.

It is recommended that you review the captions for all videos once they have finished processing, particularly if your video uses terminology specific to your discipline.

1. Select the check box next to the video(s) you need captions for.

2. Choose the 3 dots on the right, then Edit.

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select Captions from the toolbar.

4. In the caption editor, you can:

   1. Edit captions - Simply click into any caption and begin typing or deleting the existing text.

   2. Upload Captions file - upload a captions file.

   3. Create New Captions - Create new captions.

5. Choose Save to save your work, and Back when you are ready to return to your My Media.

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• Record a video within your browser

Through the Kaltura Embed tool, you can record, upload, create video quizzes, and embed videos into your Blackboard course content areas.