As part of Kaltura in Canvas, the Media Gallery is a tool to publish, view, and search media (video and audio recordings) in Kaltura. The Media Gallery appears in each Canvas course, unless it is hidden. Only people enrolled in a particular Canvas course have access to that course's Media Gallery.
In the Media Gallery, you can search across media details and caption text to find those specific words or phrases.
On this page:
- Canvas Roles and the Media Gallery
- Viewing Videos in the Media Gallery
- Searching Video Contents in the Media Gallery
- Searching for Content within a Video
- Additional Resources
Canvas Roles and the Media Gallery
- Teachers, designers, and TAs can publish videos to the Media Gallery. They can also approve student postings to a 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.
Viewing Videos in the Media Gallery
- Navigate to Canvas.
- Select the course you want.
- Select Media Gallery from the course navigation menu
- Select a video or audio recording's thumbnail to view it.
Searching Video Contents in the Media Gallery
- Navigate to Canvas.
- Select the course you want.
- Select Media Gallery from the course navigation menu.
- If there are playlists in the Media Gallery, you will have a Playlists tab and a Media tab at the top of the page. Select the Media tab.
- Enter a search term in the Search in Media field to search the names, descriptions, tags, captions, and chapter/slide contents within the available media. Add double quotation marks around "words" and "short phrases" for more targeted results.
- To search in specific fields, enter a search term, then select from the Search in fields menu that appears.
- The Media Gallery page will update to show only media that contains your search term.
Searching for Terms within a Video
To search within a single video in the Media Gallery:
- In the Media Gallery, select the thumbnail for the video you want to search within. The video page appears.
- Consider following the "Searching Video Contents in the Media Gallery" steps above to narrow down your list of videos.
- Select Play in the player. Playback starts.
- In the upper right of the player:
- Select Show Navigation to make the navigation panel appear. For videos with chapters, use the Search in video field to search chapter/slide contents.
OR - Select
Show Transcript to make the transcript viewer appear. Type in the Search in Transcript field to highlight where that term appears in the transcript, then select a time to jump to that point in the video.
- Select Show Navigation to make the navigation panel appear. For videos with chapters, use the Search in video field to search chapter/slide contents.