IU has adopted Kaltura as major and official online video streaming platform several years ago. Each member of IU community shall be able to publish legitimate video content to IU Kaltura website and create personally designated channels and playlist.
However, other than youtube and vimeo that is more familiar to ordinary users, Kaltura has its unique UX design and its specialty.
Here is a quick FAQ of Kaltura that is created by CITL@IUB.
Kaltura@IU gives IU community an alternative for Youtube or Vimeo. If you choose to upload videos to Kaltura, you might want to people to watch them anywhere in addition to your Kaltura channel, but as the popularity of Kaltura is still under uprising, you might want to embed the video to a web page for wider publicity.
Kaltura videos are adaptable to <iframe> tags, which we could use to put it in any environment that allows you to edit in HTML code.
Step 1: Get to your video
First, you should visit the page of your video on Kaltura. Find the "Share" Tab in the function bar beneath the title and date.
Step 2: Optimizing the embedding
First, be aware that the Kaltura privacy settings might be overwritten by embedding to a page. Never embed a private video to a public access page.
Second, you don't have to share the full length of a video. You could set the start and end time you would like to show.
Thirdly but least, you might need to think about the size of video you would like to share on the web page. Once you choose another size, your video page will be refreshed and the embedding code would be changed accordingly. Make sure you have copied the updated code.
Step 3: Copy and Paste
<iframe> is a copy and paste tag that is friendly to most web environment. Make sure you have copied from <iframe> to </iframe> and paste to any html-code interface.
For example, WCMS@IU allows you to work with html, if you click "source code" (the highlighted) button.
Click it and you will see a dialogue window.
Paste the code and click "OK"
And you will see the Kaltura video embeded below
SAMPLE:
Often times, you want your video viewing to be time sensitive like giving assignment to your students, asking them to review the video within a certain period time, how could you do that?
Kaltura has the time frame function to make your video to be available at designated time.
Step one: Visit your video pages.
Kaltura is not good at letting you know where you could find controls. To set up a time frame, please look for the "Action" tab at the corner.
You will see a drop-down menu and please click the one on the top, "Edit"
Step 2: Set the Time
In the tab of "DETAILS" you could change the video names, add or remove tags(only useful for videos that will be permanently open access) and time frame.
In the row of "Publishing Schedule:", please choose the radio of "Specific Time Frame" to be able to set a time frame.
You could choose either Start Time or End Time as well as both for the limitation you would like to add to your video.
Please be aware that the timezone matters in time frame setting.
Click "Save" Below to save your setting.
