Collaborate and Kaltura

donovang · July 2021

We have been using Blackboard Collaborate for virtual classroom sessions and student meetings. I am interested in an option I saw listed on Blackboard, where people have automatically saved Blackboard Collaborate videos in their KMC. Has anyone done this successfully? Some research indicated that the tool Collab2 would do this but I was not able to learn much about the tool. I wondered if any users here had used it and could tell me about their experience.

zenandjuice · July 2021

Heather Crites has something in github that would use the assorted REST APIs. This might only be applicable to public recordings though:

https://github.com/hcrites-cscc/blackboard/tree/master/processes/collaborate%20to%20kaltura

zenandjuice · July 2021

This is actually really sweet. I'm watching a demo of it now.

You can have it run as an LTI and instructors can push upload their own recordings.

donovang · July 2021

I'm in the same demo now! It is really interesting. I wonder if I could do this.

There is also an external vendor (the tool is called Collab2) but it does not say a price.

zenandjuice · July 2021

I'm going to try and get this running in a Docker container. I'll have to bug Heather about it some. She's great. We're doing a presentation together next week.

donovang · July 2021

I did not even know this was an option until I saw the session title at BBWorld and it would solve quite a few problems for us. With handouts I could maybe figure it out (I don't normally code) but it would be really great if I could get it going.

lale · July 2021

Hi everyone.

Collab2 is a LTI tool developed by eLearning Media, company I work for. My idea when I joined this community wasn't promoting any of our products and still is not. But if you are looking for information Collab2 allows to manage and bulk download recordings from Blackboard Collaborate. In this case, ingests the recordings on Kaltura.

https://www.elearningmedia.es/en/soluciones/videoconferencia-para-educacion/blackboard-collaborate/collab2

There are many universities in Europe using Collab2Kal already.

If you need more information here you have the contact page: https://www.elearningmedia.es/en/contacto or you can also ask your Customer Success since we are Kaltura partners.

Have a good weekend!

donovang · July 2021

I was unable to find any pricing information for Collab2 when looking. Without that information I will not approach anyone on my campus about this product, as coding the REST API is free.

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