Kaltura: A great option, despite some pitfalls, for large scale events
We use Kaltura for large scale conferences, such as GTC. Typically these events have upwards of 200k+ attendees
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What is Kaltura?
Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.
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What is Kaltura?
Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.
Reviewers rate Video personalization and Integration to LMS highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Kaltura are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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- Multiple sessions
- Customer support
- Host multiple concurrent events
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- Chat functionality
- Back end analytics integration
August 09, 2021
Kaltura: A swiss knife of media tools
- Kaltura Classroom is one of the best ways to teach online, including the capacity of instructors to record classes directly to the LMS
- Integrates very well with enterprise application via strong API system
- Cutting edge implementation of emerging technologies like 360 videos
- Robust and flexible transcoding profiles
- Tech Support takes a bit longer to reply
- Better audio support
- Could improve the basic editor
- Better analytics from Kaltura Classroom
August 02, 2021
Kaltura is a good video management platform
- Kaltura's platform let's you manage your video content in the cloud
- Kaltura's platform lets you stream your video content and saves you from handling it by yourself
- Kaltura's "Mediaspace" (video portal) is relatively slow and not so intuitive to handle
- Kaltura's KMC (management console) is less intuitive when you have multiple accounts to handle
February 27, 2020
Kaltura offers easy video streaming and transcoding
- Transcoding.
- Automatic captioning.
- Embedding video.
- Admin interface is sometimes difficult to navigate.
- Videos ingested sometimes are delayed by hours or days before being available.
- Support services often have full-day delays before escalation.
January 28, 2019
Unlock the potential of your media library with Kaltura
- The Kapture Space tool has helped instructors create a desktop recording and supplemental lectures such as voice over PPTs with minimal software knowledge.
- The in-line quizzing features have made for a more interactive user experience. Students have become far more likely to watch a video all the way through and the tool integrates smoothly with the LMS grade book.
- Accessibility is always a primary concern. Kaltura integrates well with other third-party providers such as 3 Play Media or DotSub to create captioning and interactive transcripts.
- The quizzing feature is pretty good but it could use some more options.
- An in-line polling feature vs a straight quizzing feature would be helpful.
August 25, 2017
Love Kaltura for online courses
- Ease of use.
- Screen captures well.
- Video with screen capture works well.
- Better clarity of videos, especially when selecting only an area of the screen for recording.
- Need quicker upload.
- Editing could be simplified.
April 12, 2017
Kaltura - One stop solution for all things video.
- We use Kaltura's ability to trans code video asset into multiple file types to make the videos easily accessible on multiple platforms.
- Kaltura's accessibility with the use of close captions and great 508 compliant video players.
- The ability to customize any player to fit our styles and different audience types with our websites.
- The only feature I believe Kaltura needs is a better way to deliver Audio Descriptive content more easily.
September 19, 2016
Kaltura Review
- Very robust SAAS platform. Lots of options for customization.
- Relatively stable and reliable. We did have one recent outage at a critical time.
- They continue to build on their feature list. A new video quiz feature was recently added.
- As it relates to the LMS integration, we would like to see improved workflow. But that may be just as much a Canvas issue as a Kaltura issue.
- I would like to see the ability to add inline, anchored comments to the video timeline.
- We are seeing issues with compatibility with certain browsers - especially Chrome. The faster Kaltura can move away from Flash the better.
- The capture appliance (CaptureSpace Lite) needs to be reconsidered. It's not intutive enough.
May 13, 2016
Kaltura for Moodle 2.x - OK, but could be better
Score 7 out of 10
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- Kaltura is reliable, though its core functionalities are a commodity,
- Since Kaltura's core function is a commodity, its value is in the added benefits on easy integration, usability, and features that enhance the learning experience of college students taking online courses. In these areas, however, Kaltura's plugin does meet expectations
- It is evidently clear to me in my dealings with Kaltura that their development priorities are allocated elsewhere than where we feel we need better service. Kaltura's response will always be "we are an opensource platform" which implies that if you want anything done, you have to have it done yourself. Given the huge amount of money USNH pays for a cross-institutional account, I don't perceive them as an opensource provider, and their development attention is quite lacking.
- I sense that Kaltura never does user testing with their products. Their interface design is clumsy, and often it appears they go about 85% of the way to completing their application development, but never quite finish it. There are a number of illogical omissions in their product capabilities, and methods for configuration that extremely difficult to customize. For example, while Kaltura can stream audio as well as video, no provision is made for creating a customized audio player or audio playlist.
- Making modifications to the Moodle plugin is extremely difficult, and the only way to generate the code for preferences is through a barebones, clunky online form that generates code based on inputs.
- While the customer service is responsive and timely, the answers to my questions are often unknown or cannot be addressed. I don't feel as though they are working in my best interests.
April 16, 2014
First 4 years with Kaltura at a major university.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Webcam recording directly into a discussion board or as an assignment is a great way to increase student engagement. There are other systems that do this now but we use Kaltura and it works great.
- The KMC is very user friendly and makes it very simple to manage the content and system settings.
- The "Studio" tab enables admins to customize the player with a long list of features. We have branded our player, changed colors, added different buttons.
- The Kaltura metrics is fantastic. Seeing user engagement of specific users or videos is a huge plus. Instructors can even see metrics from their Blackboard course about the students in that course.
- It would be nice to be able to adjust the player features for specific courses in an LMS.
- I would like to see a dynamic player in Blackboard.
- I would like for instructors to be able to add .srt files to their content so they may caption the video themselves in the LMS.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
- Very easy to use interface for uploading videos or capturing a screen recording. There are very few clicks required to get the media up and running. The video conversion process that happens on the back-end is fast and provides videos in device agnostic formats.
- Integrates well with other systems, such as our Moodle LMS. This extends the capabilities of the LMS and also allows us to keep video/multimedia content organized in a central location (the KMC).
- Kaltura can be connected to various processes within your organization. For example, we have a system in place that allows a video lecture in a classroom to be uploaded to Kaltura in a very easy manner.
- User/role management is very important as some people on campus have more privileges to publish content than do others. We have Kaltura connected to our Single Sign-On solution for authentication and we can assign roles to specific people within the Kaltura software.
- When we first began using Kaltura, there was a lack of certain features that were very important to us. One such example was the ability to make a video private but be able to share it with a secret URL. We tried and tried to get support on this issue, but Kaltura were slow to respond and make this (very important) feature part of the software. The software is getting better at a fairly good pace, however.
- Another problem we had with Kaltura was getting our Single Sign-on Authentication system set up properly. We went back and forth for months with their service department, many of whom are located in Israel which makes coordination tough, without any progress. It took us wayyy too long to get our SSO working properly and the assistance we received from Kaltura was always unhelpful. I do think they have improved their customer support over the past year, though.
- The administration interface could be improved to make managing users and videos an easier endeavour. The current interface is confusing for new and even intermediate users to track down videos uploaded by certain users. Once you find videos, the video management tool is kind of clunky as well. The MediaSpace interface's video management tool is also kind of confusing as there are two places where you edit video properties, and each place has different settings for the video. I think the MediaSpace video management could also stand to be improved.