Kaltura MediaSpace Go

I’ve spent an hour trying to play an audio recording of my class on my phone. Whenever I tried to access the webplayer on my phone browser I got a message saying I needed to install 3rd party session cookies. Well that’s great except no mobile search engine has the option to allow that. Absurd. So I’ve come here hoping that I could pop in the url for the class audio recordings and what do you know this app ALSO doesn’t work. I can’t believe they made a website for students that universities (for some odd reason are actually using) and didn’t think to have some sort of mobile access? The absolute lack of foresight and ability to make the website work on mobile devices and then the gaul to release this godforsaken app which doesn’t work at all is just an insane blunder for not just the developers but any institution that is foolish enough to use anything this company creates.

My biggest complaint with this app is the functionality. I prefer to use the iPad multitask feature when listening to lectures so I have my note-taking app on the other half of the screen. The kaltura app does not support multitasking, so I’m stuck using the browser version to listen to lectures. Unfortunately, the mobile browser version does not seem to have the option of changing playback speed, so you’re stuck listening to each lecture at 1x speed if you want to multitask. I don’t know what my medical school pays for this service, but for the glitchy functionality on the student end, they’d have to be overpaying.

Some of the other reviews are over a year old, so I gave this app a chance to see if the issues everyone is describing have been resolved. It seems the app was updated a month ago, so they should have resolved these issues, right? Nope. Nothing has changed. The only option is to copy/paste the url for the video you’re trying to watch, which is a waste of your time anyway because an error message pops up saying “failed to load data.” This app is literally pointless.