Kaltura Video in Blackboard

Kaltura is the supported video and media repository for Syracuse University faculty, staff, and students. Kaltura videos can be embedded into Blackboard courses either as standalone content or within Blackboard documents, discussions, assignments, etc.

To access Kaltura and mange your media collection, login to video.syr.edu with your SU NetID. For information about uploading, editing, and publishing media, see Kaltura at Syracuse University. For information about sharing Kaltura videos through Blackboard, see below.

Add Kaltura Content to Blackboard Course

To add a Kaltura video to your course, click on the purple plus sign icon in the course content area and select "content market" from the dropdown list.

content area page with purple plus sign clicked to show dropdown menu

Select "Kaltura Media for Ultra Courses" from the alphabetical content market list.

Kaltura Media tile in the content market list

The Kaltura media integration will open to your "My Media" gallery. Find the video you would like to embed or upload a new video using the "add new" button in the upper right of the page.

For more information about uploading videos to Kaltura, please visit Kaltura at Syracuse University.

The search bar in the upper left can be used to search for the video that you are looking for. You can click the grey "Filters" button to filter your videos. You can filter by media type, publish status, scheduling, ownership, captions, and duration. Videos can also be sorted using the "sort by" dropdown menu. You can sort by creation date, update date, alphabetically, plays, comments, and scheduling.

Select a video to add to your Blackboard course by clicking the "Embed" button to the right of the video. You change the video display settings using the gear icon. Learn more about the embed settings below. Once the video is embedded, it will be visible in the course content area or within the document or Blackboard item it is embedded in. The video link will behave as a standard content item and can be moved around within your course if desired.

Additional Resources:

Kaltura has help pages for their integration and ability to embed Kaltura videos in Blackboard. Blackboard also has help pages for the integration within Blackboard with Kaltura.