The Kaltura Video Building Block for Blackboard Learn adds several modules and course tools to your Blackboard Learn environment.
Please refer to the Blackboard Website on how to configure an external tool on your Blackboard Learn environment.
After you upload the Kaltura Video Building Block for Blackboard Learn, set up the system settings.
To set up the system settings for the Kaltura Video Building Block
In the Kaltura configuration page you:
When using Blackboard KAF, and possibly other KAF related modules, you may get an "Unable to verify signature" error message from KAF when trying to use any of the KAF features.
Two things that you may want to check before moving forward:
The signature is generated with our Blackboard Building Block, and then generated again on the KAF side, which are then compared. The signature is compiled using the entire request URL as follows:
https://domain/all_request_variables&etc.
When deploying with offloaded SSL, the port number is included in the Apache configs for the ServerName, for example, kaf.onprem.com:443. But on the Blackboard building block side, the :443 is not part of the request, thus will generate an incorrect signature.
To fix this, on the Blackboard Building Block connection page, add :443 to the connection URL as follows:
https://kaf.onprem.com:443
The signature will then be generated correctly on both sides.
If you would like to know how to find this manually, enable the logging for the Blackboard Kaltura Building Block, and look at the kms.log when making the failed request. Look in the logs for the "baseString" in the Kaltura building block log file, and compare it to the request that will be reported in the kms.log. They should be an exact match, otherwise, the "Unable to verify signature" error message will appear.
For the first installation or upgrade of the Kaltura Video Building Block for Blackboard Learn, you will need to provide initial configuration settings to connect the Building Block with the KAF endpoint. Failing to do so prevents the Kaltura Building Block from working.
To configure the connection to the Kaltura server (KAF)
If the Blackboard instance is configured on HTTPS we recommend that the KAF instance be HTTPS as well.
With the move to KAF, the majority of the Kaltura Building Block configuration is available in the KAF Admin Console. Please refer to the Kaltura Video Building Block 5 for Blackboard Learn 9.x Setup Guide for configuration details.
To configure common settings of the Kaltura Video Building Block
Role mapping configuration is described in detail in the Kaltura Video Building Block 5 for Blackboard Learn 9.x Setup Guide and is critical for properly setting up the integration.
Q: Does the Building Block for Blackboard Learn integration create and maintain local data (tables, etc.)?
A: Only the configuration is stored locally by using Learn's internal infrastructure where blocks can store their configuration.
Q: Does the Building Block for Blackboard Learn integration alter tables as part of normal operation?
A: No.
Kaltura recommends using the latest version of the Kaltura Video Building Block. To migrate from Kaltura Video Building Block version before 4.18 or below, please contact your Account Manager or Project Manager.
Kaltura Video Building Block versions 5 uses a different data structure than previous versions. The change allows for several advanced capabilities. To preserve Kaltura-related properties of previous videos, run a one-time migration process from version 4 to version 5.
To migrate from version 4 to version 5
Wait until the process finishes (there will be a confirmation message indicating the migration completed successfully and the amount of courses that were migrated). Depending on the amount of courses that used Kaltura and the amount of videos, the migration process may take up to a couple of hours.
Before you use the Kaltura Video Building Block for Blackboard Learn, you must be certain that the Kaltura Integration Tools are set.
To enable the Kaltura Integration Tool
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