Kaltura MediaSpace and multimedia student guide

You have two options to share your videos with students and lecturers on your module when your video is not for assessment.

1. Publish to Media Gallery

The video will reside in a special media gallery within the module and any student or staff member on the module will be able to view it from the link to Media Gallery on the Module Dashboard.

2. Embed a video using Kaltura plugin in the text editor.

This allows you to share a video on a number of collaborative and communication activities including Forum, Glossary and OU wiki.

1. Login to Moodle.
2. From the top navigation menu, select Utilities and then select My Media.

3. Select a video by pressing the frame or on the title.
4. Under the video, select ACTIONS and choose Publish.
   • The default setting is Private, meaning only you can view it. However, if you submit it to a video assignment, then your tutor will be able to watch it.
5. Select Published. When you choose Published, you can pick which Moodle modules you’d like the module to display in.
6. Check the Moodle modules you want to publish to under the Publish in Gallery heading.
7. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select Save.

1. Open the Utlities menu at the top left of every page on Moodle.
2. Select My Media.
3. Select the Add New menu in the top right of the screen.
4. Select Media Upload.
5. Follow the steps to choose your file, add a name, description and tags.
6. Select Save.

Post video message to Forum

Post a video in a new discussion topic

1. Select the title of the Forum from the module homepage.
2. Select Add discussion topic to post a new message.
3. Add a Subject.
4. In the Message input box write your message. Expand the tool bar on the message editor to find and select the Kaltura Media icon.

5. Choose your video from MediaSpace and embed it into the forum post. Be patient: The first time you open it, Kaltura may take a minute or more to load.
6. Select the Select button to the right of the video that you want to embed from your playlist of videos.
7. The MediaSpace video will be embedded in the Forum post.
8. Select Post to forum.

Post a video in a reply

1. To reply to an existing discussion, select the original message.
2. Select Advanced to open the full editor and follow the steps above.

Moodle waits 30 minutes before sending your message, so you can make changes.  After 30 minutes has elapsed you will not be able to edit your post and if subscription has been enabled your post will be emailed to those on the forum.