Kapiʻolani CC Library LibGuides: Streaming Video Help Guide: Kanopy

About

Kanopy

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Kanopy is a streaming video service provided by Kapiʻolani CC Library, which offers a selection of over 26,000 films. Films can be watched from anywhere, anytime by all KapCC students, faculty & staff. You may be prompted to login with your UH username to access this resource from off-campus.

Create an Account

NOTE: It is recommend you create a Kanopy account.
Also, you must Create a Kanopy account in order to view Kanopy films on mobile devices and TV apps.

Creating a personal account allows you to:

Save videos to your Watchlist to view later.
Create clips and playlists.
Use Kanopy on mobile devices.

How to create a Kanopy account

Navigate to Kanopy
Click "Log in to Kapiolani"
To create a personal account, we recommend selecting "Sign Up with Google" and logging in with your UH username and password.

Featured Films

Pidgin: The Voice of Hawaiʻi (streaming video)
What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your “mother tongue” or ridiculed because of your accent? “PIDGIN: THE VOICE OF HAWAI'I” addresses these questions through its lively examination of Pidgin - the language spoken by over half of Hawai’i’s people.
Boy (streaming video - Kanopy)
Perpetually licensed. (1 hr 27 min). Acclaimed director Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) presents a creative coming-of-age comedy set in 1984, following an eleven-year-old Michael Jackson fanatic nicknamed "Boy" (James Rolleston). With his mother dead and father AWOL, Boy becomes the head of a household full of kids when his Nana leaves town for a funeral. Out of nowhere, Boy's Dad (Waititi) rolls up in a vintage car with his "gang", and turns Boy's life upside down. There are treasure hunts, fistfights, and falling-outs, as Boy grapples to learn why his Dad left the family so long ago. Winner of Best Feature Film at the Berlin International Film Festival and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival.

Download Mobile & TV Apps and Stream Videos

You must Create a Kanopy account in order to view Kanopy films on mobile devices and TV apps.

When trying to access Kanopy films on a mobile device, you will be prompted to download the Kanopy mobile app.

Mobile Apps

Kanopy TV Apps

Information for instructors

Assigning Kanopy Films to Your Classes

Unlike our Films on Demand subscription, the current pricing model for unlicensed Kanopy films costs the library $2 a play for films the library has not licensed in advance. If you would like to assign a film to your students, we can look into licensing the film if you decide to include it in your curriculum to save the library from having to pay higher fees.

Please let us know:

How many sections you will assign the video to
Max number of students per section
The title or a link to the film in Kanopy
Please email allyson@hawaii.edu

Creating Playlists or Custom Clips

Click here for instructions from Kanopy on creating playlists or custom clips. You will need to have a Kanopy account to create playlists and clips.

Or you can watch this short video:

Runtime: 3 mins. 57 sec.

Sharing a link to a playlist or clip with others

Special links are necessary since all viewers have to authenticate with their UH credentials. To share a film in Kanopy, you must grab the link from Kanopy (do not copy and paste from the URL field in your browser since that will not work). Look for the "share" tab beneath any film, and choose to copy the link, or the embed code, to share with students.

Kanopy Licensed Videos at KapCC

The following titles have been licensed from Kanopy. A licensing fee was paid by the library, so each play does not accrue a $2 per play fee throughout the duration of the start and end dates listed below. Please feel free to assign liberally. Also, please contact the library if you are interested in licensing additional titles in Kanopy.