As part of Kaltura in Canvas, the Media Gallery is a tool to publish, view, and search media (video and audio recordings). The Media Gallery appears in each Canvas course, unless it is hidden.
- Only people enrolled in the Canvas course have access to that course's Media Gallery.
- The Media Gallery appears in Canvas courses. Teachers, designers, and teaching assistants (TAs) in Canvas courses can follow these steps to re-add, move, or remove the Media Gallery.
- When media added to the Media Gallery has captions, the caption text is searchable. This allows people in the course to find specific passages within media using their own search terms - a feature that is useful for content review. Learn more at Canvas: View and Search Video Contents in the Media Gallery
In this article:
- Roles in Canvas
- Adding Media to the Media Gallery
- Removing Media from the Media Gallery
- Importing Media Gallery Contents from Another Canvas Course
- Additional Resources
Roles in Canvas
- Teachers, designers, and TAs can publish videos to the Media Gallery. They can also approve student postings to the Media Gallery.
- Students can add media to the Media Gallery if approved by a teacher, designer, or TA, or if Media Gallery settings are changed.
Adding Media to the Media Gallery
- Open a browser and go to Canvas (canvas.umn.edu). You may need to sign in.
- Select the Courses icon in the left navigation bar.
- Select the course you want.
- Select Media Gallery from the course navigation menu.
- Select + Add to Media Gallery.
- In the Select media popup:
- To add media you have already uploaded, locate and check the checkbox(es) next to the video you want to add, then click Select.
- To upload or create new media, select Upload, Record in Browser, or YouTube in Kaltura.
- After clicking Select or uploading/creating new media:
- Teachers, designers, and TAs: The page updates with the message "All media was published successfully."
- Students: Depending on the settings in the Media Gallery, the page updates with one of two messages:
- "All media was published successfully."
- "All media was published successfully. Note that your media will not be listed until a moderator approves it."
- When finished processing, the media will appear in the Media Gallery.
Removing Media from the Media Gallery
Instructors, designers, and TAs, use these steps to remove published media from the Media Gallery:
- In the Media Gallery, from the Actions menu select Manage content. The Manage content tab loads.
- To the right of an item, from the Show Actions menu, select Remove from this Media Gallery.
- A confirmation popup appears. Select Remove. A message appears stating the item was successfully removed. Select X to close it.
Importing Media Gallery Contents from Another Canvas Course
Canvas course teachers, designers, and TAs can import the contents of one course's Media Gallery into another course's Media Gallery. This feature is helpful when copying course content from one semester to another. You need to be enrolled as a teacher, designer, or TA in the Canvas courses that you are importing to and from before you can follow these instructions:
- Go to the new course site that you want to import a Media Gallery into.
- Select Media Gallery in the course navigation menu. The Media Gallery appears.
- From the Actions menu, select Import. The "Select the Media Gallery to import from popup" appears.
- Note: If the source course's Media Gallery has more than 10 playlists, no playlists will be imported in this process.
- Select the radio button for the course with the Media Gallery you wish to import, then select Import. An "Importing started!" message should appear for a few seconds and then disappear.
- The more items in the source Media Gallery, the longer the import will take. Next, a green confirmation text box appears saying "Importing completed successfully. Please refresh the page for updates list.
- Refresh the Media Gallery to view your newly imported items.