How To Upload Kaltura To Canvas

Upload and share video in Sheet with Kaltura

On this folio:

Overview
Utilise My Media
- Upload videos to My Media
- Publish videos to the Media Gallery in bulk
Use the Media Gallery
- Enable and disable comments and moderation
- Add video from My Media to the Media Gallery
- Upload videos directly to the Media Gallery
- Approve awaiting uploads in chastened galleries
- Organize content in Canvas with channel playlists
Employ the Embed Kaltura Media tool in the Canvass Rich Content Editor

Overview

Kaltura'south integration with Canvas consists of three primary tools that get in possible to upload and share video, audio, and image files inside any Canvas class:

My Media is a searchable repository for viewing and managing your personal media content.
Media Gallery is a searchable gallery of media content assigned to one or more than courses.
Embed Kaltura Media is a tool in the Canvas Rich Content Editor for embedding Kaltura content wherever the editor is available.

Your My Media repository gives you direct access to your personal media collection, including both unpublished and published content. When you upload content to My Media, you can then publish information technology to multiple classes at in one case or embed it inside the Canvass Rich Content Editor (RCE).

Upload videos to My Media

To upload a video to My Media:

In the course navigation menu of your Canvas course, click .
If prompted to authorize Canvas to admission your Kaltura business relationship, click .
On the "My Media" screen, open the bill of fare and select .
Click , locate the file on your figurer, and so select it. Kaltura will brandish a greenish progress bar as the file uploads.
On the "Upload Media" folio, ostend or update the display proper name ("Name") for the uploaded field and optionally enter a description and tags.
Click .
By default, the video is private and tin can but be viewed by you. To publish to the Media Gallery in one or more than Canvass courses, click . Kaltura will bear witness a list of courses you are enrolled in. Check the desired classes and click .

Note:

After the video is uploaded, Kaltura will have boosted time to procedure the video. Normally this completes within 10 minutes, just it may take longer if the video is uncommonly long.

Publish videos to the Media Gallery in bulk

Your My Media repository provides admission to the video, audio, and image files you've uploaded to Kaltura via the tools in Sail, every bit well as the Kaltura web application, MediaSpace. In My Media, you lot can select multiple files and publish all of them to the Media Gallery in 1 or more classes.

To publish in bulk:

In the grade navigation menu of whatever Canvas grade, click .
If prompted to authorize Canvass to access your Kaltura account, click .
On the "My Media" screen, use the sort, filter, and search options at the top to locate the items you desire to publish.
For each item you want to publish, check the box to the left of the thumbnail to select information technology. After selecting all the items you lot desire to publish, open the menu and choose .
Kaltura will show you a list of courses y'all are enrolled in. Cheque the desired classes and click . The files will at present announced in the Media Gallery for the courses you selected.

Annotation:

If you lot select many courses, files belonging to courses that appear later in the alphabet may not exist published to the My Media gallery.

Use the Media Gallery

Every course site in Canvas has its ain Media Gallery. Anyone in the class can upload and/or publish files to the Media Gallery, as well as add comments to files. If needed, instructors tin disable commenting and plough on a moderation feature, which and then requires files to be approved by an teacher before they are visible to the entire form.

To enable or disable comments and/or moderation:

In the course navigation bill of fare of your Canvas course, click .
On the "Media Gallery" screen, open up the card and choose .
On the "Edit Media Gallery" screen, check the boxes in the "Options" section to enable moderation () and/or comments ().
Click .

Add video from My Media to the Media Gallery

Yous can add whatsoever media that you've uploaded to My Media to a class Media Gallery. To add media to the Media Gallery:

In the course navigation menu of your Canvas form, click .
On the "Media Gallery" screen, click .
On the "Add Media" screen, use the sort, filter, and search options at the height of the screen to locate the item(s) you want to add together to the current gallery.
Select each item you want to add together past checking the box to the left of the thumbnail. Afterward selecting all the items you want, click .
A blue progress bar will brandish. When all items have been added, you will exist returned to the main "Media Gallery" folio.

Upload videos direct to the Media Gallery

To upload videos directly to a class Media Gallery:

In the course navigation menu of your Canvas class, click .
On the "Media Gallery" screen, click .
On the "Add Media" screen, open the menu and choose .
Click , locate the file on your computer, and and so select it. Kaltura will display a green progress bar as the file uploads.
On the "Upload Media" page, confirm or update the display name ("Name") for the uploaded field and optionally enter a description and tags.
Click .

Note:

Later the video has uploaded, information technology volition accept additional time for Kaltura to process the video. Usually this completes inside 10 minutes but may take longer if the video is exceptionally long.

Approve pending uploads in moderated galleries

If moderation is enabled in your Media Gallery, student contributions to the Gallery must exist approved by an instructor or TA. To corroborate awaiting files:

In the class navigation menu of your Sheet course, click .
On the "Media Gallery" screen, check the information immediately beneath the page championship. If you see a pending link (for example, , ), there are pending files to moderate. Click the pending link:
On the moderation folio, click each thumbnail to view the file. Click to add together the file to the Media Gallery or to reject and remove it. You can also remove or turn down files in bulk by checking the boxes to the left of each thumbnail and and then clicking or at the top of the screen.

Organize content in Canvas with channel playlists

To use channel playlists to organize content in Canvas:

Navigate to your course in Canvas.
Click to open information technology.
At the top right, click , and then select .
Click the tab.
Click and select .
Enter a title for your playlist, and then use the lower department to add media from the channel to the new playlist.
Click .

Use the Embed Kaltura Media tool in the Sheet Rich Content Editor

You can embed Kaltura video, audio, and image files in any Canvas tool that uses the Rich Content Editor, such as Pages, Assignments, Quizzes, and so on.

To embed a Kaltura file:

In Canvas, open up the tool and item where you want to embed the Kaltura media.
Identify your cursor where you lot want the embedded file to appear.
From the editor toolbar, click the Kaltura icon ().
Select the detail you want to embed:
- To select from My Media, click at the upper left, locate the detail from the list, open the menu next to the detail, and select the desired size for the embedded object.
- To select from the class Media Gallery, click at the upper left, locate the item from the list, open the bill of fare next to the item, and select the desired size for the embedded object.
- To upload a new file from your computer:
  1. Open the menu and select .
  2. Click , locate the file on your computer, and so select it. Kaltura will display a dark-green progress bar as the file uploads.
  3. Click .
  4. Click .
  5. Locate the file you but uploaded in My Media. It should exist at the top of the list.
  6. On the "Upload Media" folio, confirm or update the brandish proper noun ("Name") for the uploaded field and optionally enter a clarification and tags.
  7. Open the menu next to the item, and select the desired size for the embedded object.
You lot'll be returned to the editor and a preview of your file will announced.

Note:

The size of the preview may not be indicative of the size of the video once the content has been saved.
If you wish, proceed to edit the page. Remember to save or submit it when y'all are finished.