Kaltura’s February 2021 Featured Webinar
KAMP: Using Video in the Fully Online Environment for Improved Personalization and Student Engagement Feb 11, 2021 at 2:00PM EST – Register Faculty and instructional designers will come to understand and use Kaltura video in the online course environment. This session will provide ideas on how video can improve online course design for video lectures, […]
Kaltura Performance Issues and Infrastructure Changes this Weekend (8/29/20)
Hello from Learning Systems, We hope this message finds you well. Kaltura MediaSpace, their integration servers for Blackboard and Canvas, as well as the Kaltura Management Server have all been experiencing intermittent outages over the last week. Our team has been in contact with the vendor and they have stated that several changes are being […]
Canvas Status Updates for August 5th, 2020
How to publish courses and override term settings in Canvas The term settings in Canvas for Fall 2020 are set to allow student access on August 11th. If an instructor wishes to allow students to access their courses now, the default term setting can be overridden within course settings. Learning Systems has added a new […]
Blackboard Faculty – End of Spring 2020 – Updates and Reminders
Greetings Blackboard Faculty, Welcome to the end of an absolutely different and challenging semester. We hope everyone is hanging in there and realize that you are doing your best given the situation at hand! We are here for you in the support of technology issues you might be having with Blackboard, Kaltura, and the integrations […]
Kaltura Service Alert
Kaltura is currently experiencing some connectivity issues to MediaSpace. We will monitor this issue and update you once there is a resolution.
Kaltura Captioning Update (REACH v2)
A recent update to Kaltura Mediaspace has introduced a new easier-to-use interface for requesting ASR / machine-based closed captioning for your Kaltura videos. Kaltura refers to this update as REACH v2. This new interface also includes an upgraded editor that allows for editing captions inside of MediaSpace as opposed to the old one that was […]
Kaltura Service Alert – Resolved
Resolved – The issue was resolved following the fixes that were deployed at Sep 26, 13:29 UTC. Our technical teams have looked into the issue and marked it as resolved. ———————————————————————————————————- Kaltura is currently experiencing some uploading issues to MediaSpace. We will monitor this issue and update you once there is a resolution. See Kaltura posted […]
Kaltura Service Alert – Resolved
Resolved – The issue was resolved following the fixes that were deployed at Sep 26, 13:29 UTC. Our technical teams have looked into the issue and marked it as resolved. ———————————————————————————————————- Service Update This is to update you that Kaltura support is performing a database index rebuild which is currently under QA. We expect code deployment […]
Teaching Excellence Academy (TEA) Sessions with the CTLE
VoiceThread Online Workshop Date: Wednesday August 28th, 12p-1pm Location: ONLINE: zoom link: https://vcu.zoom.us/j/2172831354 Facilitator: George Haines, VoiceThread Registration link: https://forms.gle/kq5r3E4zKwfV1Xhg7 Evaluation link: https://forms.gle/EEDyXQx1aYPPZqDC6 Description: This training session will cover what VoiceThread is, why it might be valuable for your courses, and how to get started using it yourself. We will show examples of how other instructors have used VoiceThread and walk […]
CaptureSpace has been retired. Kaltura Personal Capture has arrived!
Greetings from Learning Systems, This is just a friendly reminder that Kaltura CaptureSpace has been retired. As of June 1st, it is no longer being updated, enhanced, or supported by the vendor. Kaltura Capture has arrived and is now available for download from VCU’s Kaltura MediaSpace! It is much easier to use with a simple interface, […]