Overview

Our integration with Kaltura allows you to upload media to Kaltura directly from MATRIX and use your Kaltura resources in various places on your portal. For example, you can upload a video to Kaltura, and then you can embed it in multiple pages across your courses. To enable the Kaltura integration go to Admin/App Center and install Kaltura.

Configuring Kaltura

After installing the Kaltura app, click on its Configure icon.

Enter your credentials then click Save.

The new "My media" tab will appear in the Resource area where you can see all the resources you've uploaded to Kaltura.

To enable the Media tab for a course, visit its Admin/Configure/Tabs area and click the Media checkbox.

Adding media to Kaltura

To add new media to Kaltura, go to Resources/My media, click "Add New" then select how you want to add the new media.

If you select "Media Upload", you can use drag and drop or you can select the file from your computer.

Add a name for the media, a description, and optional tags then click Save.

All your uploaded Kaltura resources are listed in the My media area. Here you can search for files, sort the list, and change between the detailed and collapsed view.

You can edit or delete the files by clicking its appropriate buttons.

A media file that isn't used anywhere in the site is listed as private.

If you add the file to the media library of a course or you embed the media, it will be listed as Published. If you click on the Published button, it will show you where it is used.

Using Kaltura resources

To add Kaltura file to the course media library, go to the course, visit its Media tab and click "Add Media".

To add one of your existing Kaltura files, select it then click Publish.

To delete a Kaltura file from the class media library click on the three points in the left corner of the tile, then click on the x.

You can also choose to upload a new file to Kaltura. If you add a new file, it will be added to the course's media library and also to the Resources/My media area.

You can embed Kaltura files into the content pages of the course. Go to the page and click "Upload file."

Select "My Media" to see your Kaltura files then click Embed.

You can change the embed setting by clicking the Configure button.

Using Kaltura Classroom

To use Kaltura Classroom via our Kaltura integration first, open your Kaltura dashboard (provided by Kaltura).

Then search for the "newrow" module, which is their name for the classroom.

Then make sure that "enableLiveRoomButtonByDefault" is set to Yes.

When you go back to your learning platform, you will see a "Start Meeting" button appear in the Kaltura media tab of any course that has the Kaltura tab enabled.

Each course gets its own meeting room, so if a learner or instructor in a course clicks that button, it launches the shared & persistent Kaltura Classroom for that course. It will include a chat room, whiteboard, video conferencing, etc.