You can think of QMplus Media a little like a QMUL version of YouTube. It is an industrial strength media hosting system, predominantly for audio and video. It can cope with video and audio of all sizes and in particular with delivering that content to a potentially very large number of users, on a variety of devices, with all sorts of different internet connections, ensuring a good end user experience.

Staff and students at QMUL can upload video and audio to QMplus Media and can then share it with others in a variety of different ways. QMplus Media, as its name suggests, integrates particularly well with QMUL’s online learning environment, QMplus, making it easy for staff and students to share multimedia content there. It is, however, also possible to share content outside of QMplus e.g. on standard websites and on our e-portfolio system, QMplus Hub.

As well as hosting and delivering the media, QMplus Media provides a variety of useful tools including applications for screen recording, an online video editor, automatic captioning, video hotspots, video chaptering and video quizzes. You can also get lots of information from QMplus Media about how people are engaging with your content through the analytics feature.

QMplus Media is built on a system called Kaltura. You may hear people at QMUL talking about Kaltura…it’s the same thing as QMplus Media.

Accessing QMplus Media

Via QMplus

The easiest way to access QMplus Media is via QMplus. Simply login, go to your dashboard, click on your profile image and then click on the My Media link in the drop-down menu.

You will now be able to see your My Media area on QMplus Media. You will see all the videos that you have access to here…whether you have uploaded them yourself or because someone else has given you collaboration rights on a video.

This is where you come to access all the functionality of QMplus Media.

It’s worth noting that your My Media area is completely private. Anything you upload can only be seen by you until you decide to share it in some way.

Via the MediaSpace portal

There is also a QMplus Media video portal, called MediaSpace, which can be accessed on https://media.qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/

You can login using the controls at the top right of the screen. Select Guest and then select Login. Your login details are the same as for QMplus.

You can then access your My Media area via the menu on your profile icon on the top right of the screen.

There isn’t much difference between going via QMplus or via MediaSpace in terms of what you can do. Most people only access QMplus Media via QMplus.

Main features

There are lots of things that you can do with QMplus Media, including:

• Upload video files of any size in a wide variety of formats. Uploading a video to your My Media area
• Get students to submit videos for assessment through the standard QMplus assignment activity. Assignments: Creating a video assignment
• Turn your video into a quiz. Create a video quiz with QMplus Media
• Easily record your computer screen, audio and a webcam using the Kaltura Capture software creating a user-controllable picture in picture recording.Installing the Kaltura Capture recording application and Making recordings with Kaltura Capture and QMplus Media
• Make videos on mobile devices and upload them through the Kaltura Go app. Record video on your mobile with the QMplus Media app
• Embed your videos into QMplus areas. Adding a QMplus Media video to a QMplus area
• Make simple edits to your video using the online editor
• Generate captions for your video which also provide an interactive and downloadable transcript. How to generate captions for your video on Qmplus Media
• Send a link to your video to anyone, Share a link to a video on QMplus Media
• Add other people as collaborators on your videos so they can edit them or simply use them by publishing them. Allowing others to collaborate on your QMplus Media videos

Terms and conditions

The boring but very necessarily bit!

You should familiarise yourself with the Terms and Conditions of the service. The small print of our terms and conditions isn’t quite a small as most so hopefully they are not too onerous to read. These outline your responsibilities when using the service, particularly with regards to copyright and if you are uploading videos with other people in them.

Questions people ask about QMplus Media

These are just a few questions that we often get asked about QMplus Media.

Where to start

Have a go with QMplus Media now by trying the following:

• Log in to QMplus and have a look at your My Media area
• Try uploading a video file. You can download a free one from Pexels Videos to use as an example if you don’t have a suitable video to hand (remember copyright!). Noone can see what you upload until you choose to share it.
• Try editing your video using the online editor
• Make a quick recording with Express Capture. Express capture is particularly easy to use as it runs in your browser and needs no software download.

You might find the following useful:

• QMplus Media guides on our website
• QMplus Media video guides on our Video Guides channel on MediaSpace