What’s happening? Our video-hosting provider, Kaltura, has started copying Royal Roads University “My Media” content from the UBC-hosted Kaltura instance and putting it on the new Canadian-cloud based Kaltura instance. This will take place between May 12 and 17. On… Read More »Kaltura Migration: What you need to know
Kaltura My Media Upgrade Update: Note that the Kaltura My Media Upgrade has been postponed from April 19th to May 16th. Dates below have been updated (old dates have strikethrough applied). Kaltura MyMedia is the video platform used within Moodle… Read More »Kaltura Migration
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, the web conferencing platform that has been integrated within Royal Roads Moodle courses for many years, will be discontinued on March 15th, 2022. If you have recordings in Collaborate that you need to keep, download them before… Read More »Collaborate Closing March 15, 2022
In a trend that has only been accelerated by the pandemic, we increasingly use video to support teaching and learning. Video storage for an educational institution like Royal Roads has financial and environmental costs and there are several best practices… Read More »Video Recording Curation
Royal Roads University has adopted Zoom as a new web conferencing tool for teaching and learning with instructor and staff access available now and student access starting in January 2022. Collaborate will no longer be available after March 15 2022… Read More »An Intro to Zoom
This message was sent to RRU Faculty, Associate Faculty and Staff on 18 November 2021. After consulting with faculty and staff, Zoom has been selected from a range of platforms to serve as our primary web conferencing tool in both… Read More »Zoom for Teaching and Learning