During the week of May 19th, we plan to upgrade Kaltura to use the vendor’s latest player, the v7 Player, a player with much of the same functionality as the existing player (the v2 player), but a more modern design and some changes in user interface. The vendor has announced that they will deprecate the old player at the end of June; this means that the old player will still work, but they won't perform any additional work on it, not even to fix bugs.
After the upgrade, all Kaltura media in Media Gallery...
The Zoom to Kaltura integration automatically copies all UC Berkeley Zoom Cloud recordings to Kaltura, Berkeley's video management platform. The host of the recorded Zoom meeting will find the Kaltura copy of the recording in their My Media (in either bCourses or Mediaspace).
Be prepared for some minor changes to the Kaltura integration with bCourses as we have upgraded, largely for security reasons. More specifically, we have upgraded from LTI 1.1 to 1.3. To learn more, see "Why Platforms and Tools Should Adopt LTI 1.3".
While the security improvements that come with the upgrade may not be obvious, the upgrade has led to one user interface change that will likely impact your use of Kaltura: thelocation of My Media ...
Kaltura is the campus-supported web-based video management platform, accessed from bCourses, that allows UC Berkeley instructors, students, and staff to upload, edit, manage, and share videos and other media.
Please note: the change that this article describes has been rolled back as of 11/26/23. The current behavior is that Zoom alternative hosts do NOT become Kaltura co-hosts or co-collaborators.
An update to the Zoom to Kaltura integration made by Kaltura in early October benefits many Zoom users who have wanted colleagues (co-instructors, GSI’s,staff, etc) to be able to manage the recording files copied to Kaltura via the integration....
