I'm going to provide an overview of Kaltura's virtual classroom.
The first thing you'll want to do is invite students or participants to your meeting.
So you'll click on 'invite' and you could click on 'copy'
post that link anywhere you would like, or you could send it to students.
That would be a permanent link for this classroom.
The next thing you want to do is view your participants.
So you'll just click on the word participants, I can play with a few tools here,
I can click off their image I could turn on or turn off their mic,
and I could mute all mics, but it can't fiddle with their camera.
I could also give students certain privileges.
For example, I could allow them to share their screen,
or play shared files, draw on the whiteboard,
or write notes.
I could also make them a co-moderator if I would like.
The next thing I want to do is look at notes.
So if I click on 'notes' in this case,
it would present a brief agenda, and students would see that note.
They could also participate in note-taking if they wished.
Now I'm going to click off notes.
And the next feature I'm going to show you is chat.
So down below you can see chat here, and you can type in and chat,
and you can actually respond if you want to specific comments in the chat,
so that's interesting.
And you could just post questions here,
so you could say to participants,
"if you want to just chat that's fine,
but if you want to ask a question, click on the question mark."
And that way the instructor can focus on the questions.
Another common task that we would want to do is share files.
So you would click on files, and you can organize your files by courses.
So that's my course, I can get into the course,
I could organize by folders, so I create a folder,
and then once I clicked on the folder, I could add files to the folder.
I can also take these files and put them on a playlist,
and I'll talk about that later, but that's very convenient when you're running a
class and all the key files are put in a playlist, and you can play them when you need to.
The other thing that I want to mention is that you can upload quite a variety of files,
so that's a good feature.
The next thing you might want to do is share a video for everyone else to hear.
So the easiest way to do that is to go to this YouTube link.
Copy in an address, so I'm going to paste this into the video I found.
I click on it and I can play it instantly, or I could just add to the playlist.
And I'm gonna add to the playlist at this point,
so that's how you would add videos, and show them to the class.
And when you play them on the playlist your class will be able to hear them on their computers.
The other thing that I might want to share is what's on my screen.
So you would click there, and you can share your entire screen,
an application window or a chrome tab.
You can share any feature on your screen that you like,
and it would be instantly shared with the group.
The other thing you might want to share is a whiteboard,
and if you have a tablet, you can draw drawings like this
and share them and they will instantly be displayed on the participant's computers.
And, if you want to get rid of that you just click on the X in the top right-hand corner.
You can also go to 'tools' and share quizzes,
or do polling.
So that's a nice feature.
I've created a quiz here.
I could add that to the playlist, so I could create a series of quizzes,
and then start those quizzes.
You can also see the results of polling or quizzes by clicking on results,
and then on the quiz itself, and you'll see the student and their score.
You might want to go to 'tools' and record the screen,
and you can do this for a specific time period.
Now it says that you have to record for 30 minutes,
or an hour, or two hours.
But, what you can do is turn that recording off if you wish to during the meeting.
Now I will warn you it takes at least a minute for this recording to start,
but you can also record in breakout rooms,
which I'll talk about later, so that's a nice feature.
And rename your recordings.
When you want your recordings, you'll just go to files.
It will be automatically stored in recordings you can see I clicked on that,
and if I moved up to here I could rename the file, so that's very helpful in terms of recordings.
And it stores breakout room recordings as well.
If you want to start a breakout room, and move participants into smaller rooms,
you just click on tools and then breakout.
You can drag students in and out of rooms if you wish,
or Auto-assign them.
You can add rooms, you can clear the assignment
so that everybody goes back. It can join rooms,
and once I'm in the rooms I can join other rooms.
A student can actually reach out to me saying "I would like to talk to the instructor."
And I can also send messages to all the students.
I'm now going to show you the playlists.
So I'll turn off chat, and turn on a playlist
so you can see that I have a number of files in my playlist and videos.
So if I want to play this file,
I will click on it and that will appear on everybody's screen.
When I want to stop playing it,
I'll click the X up there in the top right-hand corner.
I could share a quiz.
That quiz would automatically go to the students, and I could end the quiz.
I could share a video,
and anything that I put on my playlist before my class.
Now, the last feature I'm going to show you is the settings.
And just to be aware, my face will appear on the screen,
and it's a little scary in the morning, so here we go.
There I am.
You can select your way webcam and your microphone here,
and you can actually track participant focus.
What that means is
if they're looking at another screen while you're talking an actual little eye pops up.
And I'll show you what that looks like.
So you just click on 'show alerts on webcams' and 'show alerts in participant list'
now student one is paying attention, but once they shift to another screen,
there's a little eye which is crossed out, meaning they're not paying attention.
Or they're probably shifting screens, we don't know,
but if you see a lot of little eyes pop up,
chances are something's amiss and you'll want to bring students back.
That is Kaltura in a nutshell.