Finding your UBC Kaltura Video ID

In order to use the videos you have uploaded to UBC’s Kaltura instance with your H5P content, you will need to find the Kaltura Video ID. The H5P Open Hub uploader will then help you create the correct URL for your video so that you can use them when creating H5P Content.

Feb 2024 Note: With newer videos since the move to Kaltura Cloud, the H5P integration can only work if the video is set to ‘private’. If your video is set as unlisted or published, you will not be able to use the H5P Integration. This issue has been raised with Kaltura.

Locate Kaltura Video ID

  1. Sign in to The UBC Learning Video site using your CWL username and password. Visit the My Media page by clicking the person icon in the top right and then clicking ‘My Media’.
Screenshot of the top of the My Media page showing how to find the link to 'My Media'.
Fig. 1 – Finding the My Media link within the UBC Teaching and Learning Media site
  1. Locate the video you wish to use within your H5P Content from the My Media page. Click the title of the video which will take you to that video’s page. If you haven’t uploaded the video to UBC Kaltura yet, click the ‘+ Add New’ button first to do that.
  2. Click the ‘Share’ tab
Partial screenshot showing the location of the Share button.
Fig. 2 – The location of the ‘Share’ tab
  1. Below ‘Link to Media Page’ you will see a box with a URL. The final part of the URL, after the last forward slash, is the video ID. It should look similar to 0_x3ijr1eu
Screenshot highlighting the video ID as part of the URL
Fig. 3 – Finding the Video ID from the URL
  1. Select and Copy the Video ID into your clipboard (CTRL-C on Windows and CMD-C on Mac)
  2. Also, as per the note at the top of this page, ensure that the video is set to Private under the publish tab.
A screenshot of the Publish tab within Kaltura indicating that people must select the publishing status of 'Private' for the H5P Integration to work.
Fig. 4 – Setting the video publishing status to Private is required for this to work within Kaltura Cloud

Use Kaltura Video ID within H5P Content

  1. Now, back on the H5P Open Hub, begin creating your H5P Content. We’ll use an Interactive Video as an example. Click H5P Content > Add New and select your content type.
  2. Click the + button to begin adding a video (see fig. 4)
Screenshot showing the button to press to add a video to the content type.
Fig. 5 – Begin adding a video to your content type
  1. In the popup window that now appears, click “Use UBC Kaltura Video” (Fig. 6)
Screenshot showing the Use UBC Kaltura Video link
Fig. 6 – Use UBC Kaltura Video Link
  1. Paste the Video ID into the ‘Video ID’ field and then press ‘Generate’. This will then begin checking that the video ID you have pasted is valid and that a video is available to use. If it is, a success message will be shown and the appropriate video URL will automatically be added into the URL box at the top of the popup. (Fig. 7)
Screenshot to show the success message being displayed when a valid video ID is pasted and the video URL has been generated.
Fig. 7 – The video URL is created automatically once pasting in the Video ID and clicking Generate.
  1. We recommend you select the ‘Raw’ Video Format.
  2. Click ‘Insert’ and your Kaltura video will now be usable within your H5P Content.