Canvas: invite guests to BBB conference

When you are running a Canvas Conference (the interactive web conference using BigBlueButton), you can invite guests who are not in the class. Unfortunately, you can’t send them the “join link” until you have actually started the conference, so have an email message ready to send—and warn them to be on the lookout.

Kaltura: add collaborators

If you want to allow another professor to share one of your Kaltura videos from their own Canvas sites, you can give them ‘collaborator’ status on that video. Now those people can access your videos from their own “My Kaltura Media” page (until you revoke their collaborator status). My Kaltura Media edit window     … continue reading

Kaltura: download a video from Canvas My Media

If you have uploaded videos to Kaltura, from Canvas, you may on occasion wish to download them. (Note: in general there are much better ways to share video with your students in Canvas! See How do I embed Kaltura media on a Canvas page (or announcement or assignments etc)? or How can I organize the… continue reading