How do I restrict viewing of a Course Capture video to only certain students?

You have multiple options to share Course Capture recordings with only certain students. 

Not an official instructor of the course? 

If you are not an official instructor in the course, you won't have the permissions to follow the instructions of any of the options below UNLESS you have been given an collaborator access role. Your instructor can add users (usually GSIs or course admins) as collaborators so they can have access to future recordings. How to add or remove collaborators from Course Capture. 

Option 1: Sharing a Course Capture through an Assignment

One way of sharing your Course Capture with only certain students is embedding your video into an assignment that you assign to only those students. 

1. Go to your bCourses site and follow the instructions in How do I assign an assignment to an individual student? until you reach the "Add Assignment Details" step.
2. From here, embed the video you wish to share in the Assignment Details by following the instructions in How do I embed Kaltura media in bCourses using the Rich Content Editor?
3. Unless you want students to submit something that you'll grade, you'll want to set "Display Grade as" to "Not graded".
4. Go back to How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?, and follow the rest of the instructions to publish your assignment (and Course Capture) to only certain students.

Option 2: Sharing a Course Capture to a student's My Media

You can also allow certain students to view your video in their own My Media by making them Co-Viewers on the media.

Please note that only for this method, it is necessary to create a copy of a Course Capture and share the copy rather than the original video.

• This is because when you participate in Course Capture, you do not have ownership of your videos (The Course Capture service has ownership). This limits what you are able to do with the recordings, including the ability to add Co-Viewers and other collaborators to your media. You must create a copy to become the owner of your video and thus be able to gain full control over your video. 

Please wait at least a couple of hours after the Course Capture video was uploaded before making a copy or a clip.

• The video must be fully transcoded before a copy can be created.
• It also takes time to re-process the video to create the copy, so if you are looking for the quickest way to share, you will likely want to use the "Assignment" method above.

How to share a copy of a Course Capture to a student's My Media

1. Access your My Media in the global navigation (vertical navigation bar on the left) of bCourses or MediaSpace. 
2. Open your video in the Kaltura video editor by following the instructions in the "Launching the Kaltura Video editor" section of How do I use the Kaltura video editor?
3. From here, you can edit your video using the tools described in How do I use the Kaltura video editor?, or you can skip editing and click Save a Copy immediately to create a copy of your video in your My Media. If you choose to edit your video, make sure to still click Save a Copy after making your edits before proceeding.
4. The "Save a Copy of the Media" window will appear. Enter a title for the copy of your media and click Create.

5. The "Success" window indicates that a copy of your video has been created. Click Go to Media Page to access the copy. Note that it might take a few minutes for your new copy to process.

6. Following the instructions in How do I add collaborators in bCourses and MediaSpace?, grant your student(s) the Co-Viewer role for this copy of your video.

7. Students with a Co-Viewer role will now be able to view your media in their own My Media. 

Option 3: Sharing Course Captures in a bCourses Project Site

You can share videos using a bCourses Project Site that you only add specific students to. This setup works particularly well if you would like to regularly share Course Capture videos with a group of specific students, with the option of auto-publishing only to these students. 

1. Follow the instructions in How do I create a Project Site? to set up your project site.
2. Follow the instructions in How do I add users to my course site? to add your students to the site.
3. Your students should see the project site on their bCourses courses list. You can also send them the link to the site to remind them where to find the videos.  
4. You may publish media to your new project site's media gallery following the instructions in How do I publish media from My Media to a Media Gallery in bCourses?. These videos will only be shared with students added to the project site.
   • If you would like to enable auto-publishing of Course Capture videos to this project site, please follow the instructions at How to automatically publish Course Capture recordings.