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Comment on media in Blackboard
Want to engage with your community by commenting on media entries or replying to existing comments?
Edit media in Blackboard
About This guide covers how to edit and manage your media in your KAF application, offering options like metadata management, publishing settings, thumbnail customization, and more, so you can ensure your content is exactly...
Delete media in Blackboard
About Keeping your media library organized and up-to-date is important. Over time, you may find that certain videos or media entries need to be updated or removed to maintain a high-quality learning experience. This g...
Publish media in Blackboard
About When you upload media, it’s private by default and accessible only through My Media . From there, you can either grab the embed code for private media or choose to publish it, making it public in your Media Gallery . Publi...
Download media in Blackboard
Add attachments to media in Blackboard
Replace media in Blackboard
Change media ownership & add collaborators in Blackboard
About Media owners can transfer media ownership to someone else, which can be useful, for example, if the owner is leaving the organization or switching responsibilities and someone else needs to take ownership of the media...
Set the media thumbnail in Blackboard
About Kaltura automatically generates a default thumbnail for each video, capturing a frame at the three-second mark. If you need a different default offset, reach out to your Customer Success Manager. Additionally, you have...
Create chapters and add slides in Blackboard
Chapters and slides enhance the viewer's experience by providing structured navigation and additional visual elements within videos.
Schedule media in Blackboard
About Scheduling media in your  KAF application  allows you to control when your content becomes viewable to your audience. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to set up specific start and end times for your med...
Enable clipping on a media item in Blackboard
About Clipping creates a new entry from an existing one and lets you control the start and end time for the new entry. This is very useful if, for example, you want to shorten an intro to a long lecture or clip the lecture into sev...
Media localization in Blackboard
About Media owners can add metadata (such as Name, Description, and Tags) in different languages for their media via the Languages tab of the edit media page. Prerequisites Enable the Multi-Language Instance setting in the...
Disable comments and close discussion in Blackboard
About Comments allow viewers to engage with your content by sharing thoughts, asking questions, and fostering discussions, helping to build a sense of community.  They appear under the media item, lower down the page below the video ...
Media metadata in Blackboard
About Media metadata refers to the descriptive information associated with a media file, such as an image, video, or audio file. This metadata includes details like the title, author, creation date, file format, duration, resolution, lo...
Upload and manage captions in Blackboard
In KAF, you can upload caption files for any media you own or have editing privileges for.
Media stitching in Blackboard
Would you like to combine multiple videos and images into one video?
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