IDT Blog: Teaching & Tech Tips

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

Canvas: hide final course grade

If using Grades in Canvas, your students will be able to see their course total grade by default.  If you would like to hide the total grade from students, follow the instructions below.

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

Kaltura: create video for Canvas sites

Kaltura allows faculty, students, and staff at Rutgers to create or upload videos to a streaming server, which makes sharing them easy for everyone. You could think of our Kaltura server as Rutgers’ own YouTube-like service. Before you record a lecture for your course, review our tips about video lecture types and optimal video length…. continue reading