Kaltura Live Room

Kaltura Live Room is a webconferencing tool that allows you to host interactive lectures, seminars and meetings with up to 200 participants in regular rooms and 350 in so called 'Large Live Rooms' (with 25 people in view at a time).
  • Organisation & collaboration
  • Video
  • Video-type-group-1
The Kaltura Live Room interface
The Kaltura Live Room interface

The teaching activities can be recorded and supported by a wide variety of interactive features such as breakout rooms, file sharing, chatting, quizzes, and a whiteboard. You can share a link to the fixed location for all course activities in Brightspace.

From 1 August 2025, Kaltura Live Room (sometimes known as Newrow) will no longer be available as a video conferencing application. However, Kaltura as a video portal (video.leidenuniv.nl) will remain available. This means that all recordings of Kaltura Live Room sessions will remain available on Kaltura after 1 August. For educational activities, Zoom is the preferred application for video conferencing.

For more information on which video tools are available, have a look at our overview of the different video tools.

Manuals and links

Manual Kaltura Live Room

Brightspace support site Leiden University

Manual Kaltura Live Room and Brightspace

Brightspace support site Leiden University

Instructions for making a video recording

Leiden University manual for recording your lecture with a mobile webcam, fixed camera or Mediasite recorder