Kaltura (My Media and Media Gallery) Tabs in Canvas

Owned by Mounika Ragula
Last updated: Dec 28, 2021
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Enable Kaltura Tabs in Canvas

The following steps help make the Kaltura tabs, My Media and/or Media Gallery, appear on the left navigation menu of a Canvas course .

  • To enable Kaltura Tabs in Canvas:

    • Open the Canvas course where you’d like Kaltura tabs available.

    • Open Settings from the Course Menu

    • Open the Navigation tab

    • Scroll down to the section Drag items here to hide them from students.

    • Locate Media Gallery and My Media, and drag them up into the upper section (or click on the three-dot icon and choose Enable)

    • Drag and drop items to reorder them in the course navigation.

    • Place the Media Gallery and My Media links where you’d like them to appear.

    • Scroll to the bottom of the page and Save.

    • Test the new Kaltura links in your course menu.

Difference between My Media and Media Gallery

  • Kaltura Tabs on Course Navigation Menu

    • My Media is user specific. It is a collection of all the videos you’ve recorded or uploaded with the Kaltura tools. This is your complete library of videos. It’s associated with your Canvas account, but not with any particular course.  Your students in a given course cannot see what’s in your My Media collection.

    • Media gallery content is course specific. It is a place, within a course, where you can choose and post videos from your My Media collection for your students to view, in the context of the course. In other words, you can publish your videos and the published videos end up in the Media Gallery.