Ridgewater College Two-minute Tech Tips

Tip #6: Show your students how to use Kaltura MediaSpace

Instructors and students both have "creator" accounts on Kaltura MediaSpace. If you are looking for a way to have students record themselves doing an assignment, whether it's a remote presentation, a screen recording, a speech, or a hands-on activity, and then submit the video, have your students use MediaSpace. You can set up an assignment folder on D2L that accepts text submissions or have them post the link on a discussion board. Either way, they won't have to try and email you a giant file that likely will fail. The first time I asked students to create introduction videos and post…
Tip #4:  Create video thumbnails for your lecture, presentation, and demonstration videos.

Tip #4:  Create video thumbnails for your lecture, presentation, and demonstration videos.

According to Youtube, 90% of top-performing videos use a custom thumbnail Sure, creating thumbnails for your videos takes a few minutes, but research shows that people (including your students) are likelier to watch the videos if they have a custom thumbnail. To streamline the process, I suggest sticking with one or two templates from Adobe Express and just changing out the text and maybe the colors each time. There is no need to start over from scratch. Keep your thumbnails consistent from one video to the next. Adobe Express has hundreds of video thumbnail presets you can use to get started.…