Learning Platforms Checklist

Are You Ready for Digital Learning at North Island College?

To support your success at NIC, it’s important to be familiar with the core technologies used in your courses. The information below will help you get oriented with NIC’s three main learning platforms. Click the buttons to learn more about each platform and how to get started.

Brightspace
(Course Learning Platform)
Kaltura Virtual Classroom
(Video Conferencing)
Kaltura
(Video Streaming & Storage)

We recommend you test and demonstrate you can log in, navigate, and undertake key activities in Brightspace.

This is the platform where you will see course content, possibly upload assignments, take quizzes, communicate with your classmates and instructor along with the ability to see your grades.

Make sure you can access Brightspace via three ways:

  1. https://mynic.nic.bc.ca – link via MyNIC platform
  2. https://mycourses.nic.bc.ca – direct link
  3. https://www.nic.bc.ca/ – link off main page of NIC website
  • Successfully log in to Brightspace with your NIC credentials and password

Kaltura Virtual Classroom is NIC’s web/video conferencing platform.

It is found inside each of your Brightspace courses and linked directly to a persistent virtual classroom space.

Click the link on the button above to learn more.

Kaltura My Media is a video storage and streaming platform with a built-in recording tool for both screencasting and video capture.

We recommend you test and demonstrate you can log in, navigate, and undertake key activities powered by Kaltura.

Locate Kaltura My Media

Brightspace > main home page on blue navigation bar look for “Kaltura My Media”

  • Under “ADD NEW” locate Kaltura Capture (2nd from bottom of list) and download this application to your computer. There are versions for both Windows and Mac computers.
  • This is a free recording tool for making videos, along with simple editing and enhancing. It may be a tool some instructors wish for you to use for creating assignments, making welcome videos, or working on group projects.
  • Try creating a video with Kaltura Capture.
  • Try uploading a video you created to your My Media folder.  
  • Try editing one of your recorded videos.