Video Content Management - Making Interactive Video Quizzes (for Instructors)


Introduction

Kaltura is the cloud-based video management system behind My Media and Media Gallery, which are Canvas LTI tools. Note that:

  • Kaltura appears in some places in My Media and Media Gallery and in the company's documentation and user guides.
  • Course Gallery is how you access Media Gallery in Canvas. 

The Kaltura Video App for Canvas User Guide has full instructions on using My Media and Media Gallery. The instructions here are specific to Virginia Tech. To see other Kaltura topics, please click on the guide for your role:

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Instructions

Background

Kaltura has a tool to create interactive video quizzes from videos that exist in My Media. These quizzes can be tied to Canvas assignments as an external LTI tool and gradebook.

Video quizzes can:

  • Increase active viewing and engagement
  • Test students' understanding of the material
  • Provide new ways to improve learning outcomes

Video quizzes can be a great supplement for your course materials, but due to the intermittent issues that can arise with grades passing back automatically to the Canvas gradebook, we recommend that you don't create long video quizzes or depend on them for a large percentage of students' grades.

Creating Video Quizzes

To create a video quiz to assign to students in Canvas:

  1. Create a video quiz in My Media or Media Gallery using the below resource:
  2. In Canvas, go to your course and click on the Assignments tab.
  3. Click + Assignment to create a new assignment.
  4. Fill out the assignment details. 
  5. For the Submission Type, click on External Tool from the drop-down list, then Find to open the Configure External Tool pop-up window.
  6. Click on In Video Quiz from the list of available tools to open the video selector.
  7. Locate the video quiz from the My Media or Media Gallery tab and click Select to return to the Configure External Tool page. 
  8. Click Select to return to the assignment.
  9. Make sure the rest of the assignment details are filled out and click Save & Publish to assign the quiz to students.

When students answer and submit their quiz, see Taking a Quiz, the grade is automatically sent to the Canvas Gradebook for the relevant assignment and student.

Please note: In order for quiz scores to pass to the Canvas gradebook, students must launch the quiz from the Assignments tab. If a quiz is launched form a Course Gallery, the quiz score will not pass to the gradebook. Only quizzes launched from Assignments will pass grades. Even so, known issues with long quiz lengths, cookies, private browsers, Safari, etc., can result in failed grade pass back in Canvas. For these instances, check for their attempt in Kaltura's Quiz Reporting and Analytics for the video and manually record their score in Canvas.

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Kaltura's IVQ Resources

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Getting Help

For instructions on resolving common issues with Kaltura, please click on the guide for your role: 

If you need help with My Media, Media Gallery, or Kaltura in general: 

If you still have questions: 

  • For Kaltura in Canvas or at video.vt.edu, go to the 4Help Portal, log in, and click Get Help. Specify where you are having the issue and include the video name, ID, and/or URL if applicable.
  • For questions about intellectual property, contact your department chair or the University Council. 

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