The University of Utah is expanding its usage of Kaltura’s Cross Campus Video Suite and is the first university to deploy the new app.

"We are delighted to provide further value to the University of Utah, a true pioneer in the market. With the addition of the Canvas app, Kaltura uniquely provides fully integrated video extensions for all major learning-management systems," said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. “We are seeing huge adoption of our LMS and CampusTube video solutions as video increasingly plays a key role in today’s educational trends – be it Flipped Classrooms, MOOCs, SPOCs, or social learning.”

"As one of the first universities to adopt Canvas, the University of Utah actively encourages innovative education-technology platforms and integrations,” said Cory Stokes, Executive Director, Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Utah. “Kaltura's Canvas Video App greatly improves the faculty and student experience using media in their classes."

Kaltura's video app takes teaching and learning within Canvas (as well as other LMS platforms) beyond the confines of the individual course with a comprehensive set of student and faculty-focused video tools, including

• user-generated content (UGC) tools: These allow video upload, webcam capture, screen recording, video presentation (PowerPoint sync), and mobile-device capture for simple creation of video by any user directly within Canvas.
• a personal media library for every student and teacher: All students and teachers have their own “my media” page that allows them to upload content once and re-publish / re-use in multiple places.
• rich-text editor integration: Users can intuitively use rich media without time-consuming training by simply clicking on the “Embed Kaltura Media” editor button. Uploading and recording of new media are also available from within the rich-text editor
• enhanced video analytics: Instructors can easily access course-specific video-analytic reports directly from the LMS, enabling them to learn which videos are most viewed, which users are most engaged, and which users have contributed the most content to the Media Gallery.
• full mobile and device support: Optimal playback on any device allows institutions to reach their students on the go.
• advanced user-access control and rights management: Use any of the existing Canvas permissioning options. Administrators can control access per video file, geographic location, domain, and the IP-address range from which the video can be viewed.
• accessibility: The player is ADA/508 compliant by default.
• captions: Upload multilingual captions to reach international, multilingual, and hearing-impaired audiences, while also enabling in-video search within the captions.
• comments: This function boosts online conversations and user engagement by allowing users to comment on videos.

Yekutiel added, "Educational institutions need to provide the enriched video experience that today’s "YouTube generation" has come to expect and demand. Our educational-video solutions, including this new Canvas Video App, allow universities, K-12 schools, and ed-tech companies to do just that."

Kaltura’s Canvas Video App is built based on the modular and flexible Kaltura Application Framework, which allows for the easy and rapid insertion of robust video workflows into existing products such as Canvas.  By way of this integration, educational institutions and their users can continuously benefit from the ongoing innovation at Kaltura, which is also supported by a community of more than 80,000 developers.

The Kaltura Application Framework is hosted on the Kaltura cloud, which means new features and developments are automatically available without the need to upgrade the integration. Using applications based on the Kaltura Application Framework, institutions can centrally manage all media content and associated metadata and avoid overhead and silos.