Kaltura Webinars

Date Released: October 2024

What's New

Open-ended questions - This highly anticipated feature empowers moderators to create open-ended questions, allowing attendees to submit their responses in free text. This provides a powerful way to gather insightful and valuable feedback directly from the audience.

• Enhanced engagement: Encourage deeper interaction from participants by allowing them to express their thoughts and opinions in their own words. 
• Rich insights: Collect nuanced and qualitative data, enabling moderators to gain valuable insights beyond standard multiple-choice polls.
• Customization and Flexibility: Moderators can tailor questions to fit specific needs, fostering a more personalized and relevant experience for attendees.
• Real-time Feedback: Receive immediate feedback from participants, allowing for dynamic and responsive discussions during live sessions.

Responses will be displayed immediately in the Feed tab, and all submissions will be saved in the Polls Report for easy access and review.

For more details, check out our Knowledge Center article.

Date Released: September 2024

What's New

UX/UI enhancements to Kaltura Webinars - To streamline the webinar management process and provide a more intuitive interface, we've made the following updates:

• Consistent terminology - We've replaced "Event manager" with "Organizer" throughout the platform for better clarity and to support additional use cases. 
• Unified event list - We've consolidated the event list into a single view, eliminating the need for separate "upcoming" and "past" tabs. Event Organizers can use (previously released) event labels to easily filter their ever-growing event list.
• Improved date and time selectors - We've introduced new and improved date and time selectors for easier event scheduling.
• Button refinements - "Create event" is now “Create” and "Events Showcase" is now “Showcase”.

For more details, check out our Knowledge Center article.

Date Released: June 2024

What's New

Remove users - 

You may now remove users (attendees, speakers, and moderators) from a webinar by simply clicking "Remove" on the user action menu. A user who has been removed from a webinar will no longer have access that that webinar. 

See the following articles for complete information:

⁠People tab > All users - Invite participants to your webinar

People tab > Speakers - Invite speakers to your webinar

⁠⁠People tab > Moderators - Invite moderators to your webinar

Duplicate webinar with users -

In April, Kaltura released the "copy event" feature allowing you to copy an existing webinar and save the time of configuring and setting up a new webinar from scratch.

We are happy to announce that you may now choose to copy over certain types of users, including speakers, moderators, and members of the event team. You may even choose to send an email invitation to them upon creation of your new webinar. 

Here is a complete list of what's copied over when copying a webinar: 

• Branding - Webinar banner image, logo image, and custom theme
• Emails - Both system emails and custom email templates 
• Registration form
• Notifications - Announcements and crowd reactions 
• Chat Settings
• Webinar settings - Support email address and organizer name and image
• Users - Speakers, Moderators, and Event team (if selected). 

See Events tab for more information.

Richer live engagement analytics to include additional Chat and Collaborate data - 

Live engagement analytics previously included rate of engagement during the session and percentage who sent live reactions during the session. You now have access to more in-depth Chat and Collaborate analytics in the session dashboard including: 

• Total number of reactions sent in the session
• Percentage who sent messages on the group chat and total number of group chat messages sent in the session
• Percentage who participated in polls
• Percentage who created Q&A threads and total number of Q&A threads opened in the session
• Percentage who downloaded attachments and total number of downloads of session attachments 

See Analytics tab - Engagement (Session analytics) for complete information.

Consolidated session dashboard report -

You may now easily export the users list and their engagement data from one button on the session dashboard. Simply click the Export button. Kaltura Events will prepare the report and send it to your email address.  

See Analytics tab - Engagement (Session analytics) for complete information.

Date Released: April 2024

What's New

Duplicate webinar - 

You may now choose to copy an existing webinar and save the time of configuring and setting up a new webinar from scratch. 

Copying a webinar copies over the following data: 

• Branding - Webinar banner image, logo image, and custom theme
• Emails - Both system emails and custom email templates 
• Registration form
• Template/custom pages - Lobby page and any custom pages
• Notifications and crowd reactions 
• Chat Settings
• Webinar settings - Support email address and organizer name and image

Please note: Registrants and media are not copied. 

See Events tab for complete information.

Date Released: March 2024

What's New

Increased character limit on webinar titles - 

We've doubled the character limit on webinar titles from 60 to 120 characters, leaving you more room for descriptive titles. See Kaltura Events Account Home page - Create a webinar. 

Date Released: February 2024

What's New

Signal Notifications in the Chat and Collaborate widget - 

Kaltura now provides "signals" to moderators in the CnC widget based on metric trends. Moderators are, thus, empowered to choose appropriate engagement methods based on what's going on in their session. For example, if engagement rates are trending up, it may be a great time to send out a poll. This change in engagement rate triggers a signal to the moderator, a pop-up notification prompting the moderator to take action specifically related to the signal they received. For more information, see Chat and Collaborate widget. 

Date Released: January 2024

What's New

Bulk invitation - 

You may now invite participants to your webinar via email in bulk. You may download a pre-made CSV template that is already formatted and includes examples. Simply type the appropriate information for your users, save, then upload. You can also upload your own CSV file (without using the pre-made template). See People tab > All users - Invite participants for more information.

Recently viewed events - 

Kaltura now provides easy access to webinars you've recently viewed. Clicking on any of these recently viewed events opens them for editing. Instead of searching through the list of events, you can use this new feature to quickly revisit webinars you are managing. See Kaltura Events Account Home page - Manage your webinars plan.

Better control over profile pages on the webinar site - 

"Bio" information entered when adding speakers, moderators, and event team members displays on profiles pages of the webinar site. Instead of a simple plain text field, you are now able to better design the look and feel of this information through rich text and you may even add hyperlinks to important related information.  See an example on People tab > Speakers - Invite speakers to your webinar.