Kaltura: Create a Video Quiz from My Media in Blackboard Learn Ultra

Using video or audio for interactive media quizzing is a useful pedagogical tool. Kaltura enables you to easily embed questions within your media, which allows you to test students’ engagement and understanding of the media’s objective.

Contents

• Video Overview of Kaltura Interactive Video Quizzing
• Launching Quiz Editor
• Adding Questions
• Adding a Kaltura Video Quiz to Course Content

VERY IMPORTANT: After creating a video quiz, the quiz must be placed in the Blackboard Course Content for the grades to be automatically added to the gradebook. Go to Adding a Kaltura Video Quiz to Course.

Video Overview of Kaltura Interactive Video Quizzing

To start creating a media quiz, the media must first be uploaded to Kaltura’s My Media. If you want to create a recording, read Getting Started with Kaltura. Alternatively, you can choose a YouTube video for a quiz. Here is a video on How to Upload YouTube Videos to My Media, and there’s an article, Kaltura: Create a Quiz from a YouTube Video.

Launching Quiz Editor

1. 1. Login to Blackboard.
   2. Click on Tools on the left.
      
   3. Click on Kaltura My Media.
      
   4. Click on Add New.
      
   5. Click on Video Quiz.
      
   6. Next to the media, you wish to use for quizzing, click Select. This will launch the Quiz Editor.
      
   7. Next Step: Adding Questions

Adding Questions

If when you open the Quiz Editor, there is a Start button, click it. This will create a copy of the original media and append the filename with, “- Quiz”.  Otherwise, the media is already copied and you can begin following the steps below.

Very Important: The question type selection menu is only visible with the media is paused.

1. Find a place where you want to add a question and click the Pause button.
2. Select the desired question type by clicking on its icon.

   

   Multiple Choice

   

   True / False

   

   Open Answer

   

   Reflection Point

3. Add question text, and, if applicable, answer choices. (The example shown is for multiple choice.)
   

   Side Note: Multiple-choice questions start with two answer options. Two more options can be added by clicking the plus (+) button. By default, the first option is the correct answer, and you can scramble the answer list after inputting answers by clicking the randomize button.

4. When finished, click Save. Repeat these steps until all questions have been added.
   
5. When complete, click Done.
   
6. You are finished creating a video quiz. It will be saved with the original title appended by “- Quiz”. Continue below to see how to place a Kaltura Interactive Video Quiz in your Blackboard course.

Adding a Kaltura Video Quiz to Course Content

1. Go to the location in your Blackboard Learn Ultra course where you want to place the Kaltura Video Quiz.
2. Click the plus sign (+) in the folder where you would like the Kaltura Quiz.
   
   
3. Click on Content Market.
   
   
4. Click Kaltura Video Quiz.
   
5. Click Embed next to your quiz. Remember your quiz will be the original video title appended with “- Quiz”.
6. If you upload the quiz this way a grade center column will automatically be created in the Grade Center and a grade will automatically be entered when the student takes the quiz.

IMPORTANT NOTE: While it is technically possible to add a “Kaltura Video Quiz” using “Add Content” in the Content Editor, this will not create a Grade Center column; thus, this workflow should not be used. Any quiz added this way will NOT be graded.

For more information about Kaltura, visit About Kaltura.