Interactive tools in a nutshell

Kaltura’s interactive tools allow you to add activating elements to videos and modify the content to make it more pedagogically effective. For example, you can improve the discoverability of subject areas by dividing the video into sections, guide the viewer to additional materials, activate the learner with questions, or make small edits to the videos. This page has compiled Kaltura’s key interactive tools and situations in which they are useful.

Timeline

The Timeline tool allows you to enrich your video with presentation slides and to add navigation points or chapters to your video. Chapters help you structure the content of your video into a clearer whole for the viewer and make it easier to find the essential points. The tool is well suited for lecture recordings, instructional videos, and presentations that cover several topics in stages.

Use the tool when you want to:

• add presentation slides to the video
  • single slide or image – PPT, PPTX, PDF and most common image file formats supported
  • slideshow – PPT, PPTX and PDF as supported file formats
• Mark important points in the video with chapter marks
• makes it easier to navigate to different parts within the video

Please note that the Timeline tool is not available for videos linked from YouTube to Kaltura.

Watch Kaltura’s tutorial video on how to use the Timeline tool (external site)

Hotspots

The Hotspots tool allows you to add buttons (links) to your video that direct the viewer to other material (URL) or to a different point in the video. This can make the video more interactive and support the learner’s progress, where supplementary content opens up as part of the viewing experience or the viewer can skip over content they are already familiar with.

Use the tool when you want to:

• Provide supplementary material (article, website, in-depth video) at a point in the video where it is relevant to the viewer.
• offer the viewer the opportunity to skip over already familiar content
• offer the viewer an opportunity to review previously learned material

Please note that the Hotspots tool is not available in Quiz videos.

Watch Kaltura’s tutorial video on how to use the Hotspots tool (external site)

Quiz

The Quiz tool allows you to add questions to your Kaltura video that activate the viewer to stop and watch the content. Questions help engage learners instead of passively watching. Students’ answers are saved for the Quiz video creator to review later. A copy of the original video is created, so you can share a version of the same video both with and without questions if needed.

Supported question types:

• Multiple choice
• True / False
• Open answer
• Stop and think (information card)

Use the tool when you want to:

• Guide the viewer to reflect on what they have learned during the video and not only after watching.
• implement a light proficiency test or self-assessment
• complete a preliminary assignment for a lecture or small group meeting
• to carry out a flipped learning task

Please note that the Hotspots tool is not available in Quiz videos.

Watch Kaltura’s video tutorial on how to set up a video quiz (external site)

Watch Kaltura’s video tutorial on adding questions to a Video Quiz (external site)

Video Editor

The Video Editor tool allows you to make minor edits to videos uploaded to Kaltura without a separate editing program. The tool is suitable for removing extra parts from the beginning, middle, and end of the video.

Use the tool when you want to:

• Clean video structure quickly before publishing.
• remove the initial wait and final tail of the meeting recording
• remove unnecessary part in the middle of the video
• add a fade to the beginning, end, or between cut parts of a video

Watch Kaltura’s video tutorial on how to use the video editor (external site)