In Moodle, you can create video-based multi-slide quizzes, branching lessons, or other activities, using H5P.
For example, using the H5P Interactive Video activity, you can quiz your Student viewers while they are watching your video.
It's common to use a "share link" (the URL) of a YouTube video for this, but you can also use video that you've stored in VCC's Kaltura media repository.
To using your Kaltura video in an H5P requires a few extra steps to create a URL that H5P can use.
Read on:
Option 1: Ask eLearning Support to help you build the video URL
To ask eLearning Support to assist you, please submit a Moodle support ticket using our online eLSupport request form.
In your eLSupport ticket, please provide the Kaltura "Entry ID" code of the video you want to use. (Each video stored in Kaltura gets its own unique Entry ID code.)
Option 2: Try building the video URL yourself
For your Kaltura video to work in H5P, you must construct a URL that looks like this:
https://api.ca.kaltura.com/p/136/sp/13600/playManifest/entryId/0_srxptkfs/format/url/
Paste that URL exactly as you see it here into a new browser window, and you'll see the "VCC Song" video appear in a Kaltura video player.
The ten characters after the part "entryId/" would be the unique Kaltura EntryID for your own video.
In the above URL, the Entry ID is 0_srxptkfs
How to find the Kaltura Entry ID code of a Kaltura video:
- Login to VCC's MediaSpace repository at https://mediaspace.vcc.ca
- Find your video in your "My Media" folder in Kaltura, and click on it so that you are viewing it and its details.
- Click on the "Share" tab, and copy the last 10 characters in the share URL, located after the last forward slash:
e.g. In the sharing URL "https://mediaspace.vcc.ca/media/0991_Film_Lesson_01_Innocents/0_lqy6gzt2"
please provide us with the part after the last slash: 0_lqy6gzt2
Creating an H5P-friendly URL:
- Using that line above, replace the Entry ID characters with the unique Kaltura Entry ID of your own video.
- To test it, paste the whole URL into a browser address bar and hit Enter. You should see your video display in the browser.
- That URL can be pasted into the video URL field in your H5P project.
NOTE: This method won't work if the Kaltura video you want to use was added as a "YouTube" type. In other words, you can only use this tactic to get an H5P-friendly URL if your video was uploaded using "Media Upload" or if it was captured using the Kaltura Capture or Express Capture applications.
Notes:
- The URL you construct above is an example of Kaltura's Application Programming Interface (API), specifically the "playManifest" method, which delivers a user's video inside a Kaltura video player.
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