Kaltura Virtual Classroom is a new utility that has been provided free for 90 days of use by Kaltura to customers that have been affected by the COVID-19 virus. We have enabled the Virtual Classrom functions within our environment and they are available for you to test-drive. Any teaching faculty this semester should be already enabled to be an instructor using this utility, all other users will automatically enter as participants.
Contents
- Features of Kaltura Virtual Classroom
- Getting started with a test drive of Kaltura Virtual Classroom
- Want to use Kaltura Virtual Classroom for your class?
- System Requirements
- Using your own Virtual Classroom
- Digital Whiteboard
- Cloud Recording
- Screen Sharing
- Breakout Rooms
- Real Time Notes
- Live Quizzes
- Cloud Storage
- Focus Detection
- Up to 25 Live Cameras
- In a web browser, open https://video.olivet.edu
- Click Guest User in the upper right
- Click Login
- Enter your username (NOT username@olivet.edu) and password
- Click My Channels
- Click on "Kaltura Classroom Test 2" or "Kaltura Classroom Test 3"
- Click Launch Live Room
- Classroom will launch
- To end the classroom, Click Back above the classroom stage, or click the back browser button
- To invite other participants
- Click on the 3 dots next to Participants in the menu
- Click Invite
- Click Copy to copy out the URL for the room
- Send the URL to other participants
Keep in mind these are experimental rooms:
- Content is persistent. Anything uploaded or adjusted will remain available within the room to other participants that join.
- There is no end time set for these rooms.
- All teaching faculty are shared owners of these rooms.
- Put in a request with IT to enable a production virtual room
- Rooms can be created for your department to share
- An individual room can also be created for individual instructors
- Please provide the name of the department or instructor. This will be the name that appears on the room, and the Kaltura channel.
- Provide a list of usernames of individuals that need to be instructors/moderators of the room.
Virtual Classroom is supported on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome, iOS and Android
Full recommendations by Kaltura can be found here
- Request a new room (see bullet point above)
- In a web browser, open https://video.olivet.edu
- Click Guest User in the upper right
- Click Login
- Enter your username (NOT username@olivet.edu) and password
- Click My Channels
- Click on "Virtual Classroom: {Name}" (if you cannot see the channel listed, type "virtual classroom" in the search field)
- Copy the URL in the browser when the page loads and save this link to access the channel/room directly
- Click Launch Live Room
- Classroom will launch
- To end the classroom, Click Back above the classroom stage, or click the back browser button
- To invite other participants
- Click on the 3 dots next to Participants in the menu
- Click Invite
- Click Copy to copy out the URL for the room (this URL should not change at all, so copy and save this to share later)
- Attackers are targeting open meetings. It is very highly recommended to avoid sharing this link in any publicly available space such as social media.
- Consider adding a password for additional security
- Send the URL to other participants