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 them to a discussion board, it was a fail. I quickly realized that I needed to make a couple of how-to videos showing them the entire process from recording their video, uploading it to MediaSpace, and then posting the link (or embedding them in a discussion post). I made a couple of videos – one for computer users who wanted to do the whole thing using their laptops and one for students who wanted to use their phones.

Sample Instructional Videos