My Media och Media Gallery are entrances from Canvas into KI Play. The video platform for both is called Kaltura. Observe that you cannot see existing films which you have uploaded into KI play. These entrances are separate and as it stands do not communicate. See below if you need help with this.

In each course there is the option to activate My Media and Media Gallery. You can do this via Settings > Navigation.

My Media and Media Gallery in your Canvas course

See this video (5.51min) that explains some of the differences:

This means that both you as a teacher, and you students see My Media and Media Gallery in the course's menu. This allows both students and teachers to share videos with other in the course, without having to publish a film on a specific page (although this is also possible of course). NOTE: As of 23-06-08 Collaboration via My Media has been disabled.

Media Gallery

My Media in Canvas - your media library via Canvas

My Media in Canvas is equivalent to My Media in KI Play. Independent of the course you are in, you will be able to click on My Media, and come to the videos that you have published in Canvas (via My Media). It is not possible to see films which have been published via KI Play since you are not the same user in KI Play. To make a film visible for the other participants, you can choose to add it into the courses' Media Gallery. Please note, that if you have uploaded a number of films in KI Play and want to make them visible to your Canvas-KI-user you can send a support errand to iktpedagogerna@ki.se with your user-id (xxxxxx@ki.se) and we can do a bulk edit so you will be able to see all those films via your Canvas login.

Media Gallery - share your films with the others in the course

Media Gallery is a searchable media gallery for a specific course. Media Gallery does not necessarily include all the media used within the course, only the videos that have been published via My Media > Publish to Gallery. Both teachers and students can upload films to the gallery.

The advantage of using the Media Gallery tool is that you as the teacher can access the course-specific video analytics tool. With this you can see which film clips are most used, which users are most engaged, and which users have contributed most to the media gallery. This information is not visible for students. You can also create playlists and share content with other teachers. You can import all playlists and videos from one course's Media Gallery (video to show importing media here) to another even if you do not have editing rights to those films.

analytics media gallery

Publish a film (from My Media in Canvas) to a page, assignment etc

If you need to publish a film from My Media within a page (assignment, quiz etc) it is possible to use the plugin-function in Canvas' rich text editor (1). It is also possible to copy the embed code direct from KI Play (we do not recommend this unless you have added captions to those videos as well as you need to be aware that videos on KI Play are regarded as being public hence the need for captions) - see this page for instructions.

In the rich content editor (RCE) click on the app icon (1):

image shows where you click first to embed a video from kaltura

And then on the Embed Kaltura Media. Once you do that you will be able to select from My Media or the media in the Media Gallery.

Image shows second step for embed kaltura media

Now you will see a list of all the films which you have already published via My Media in Canvas.

If you click on a film, you can make choices about how the video will be shown in the player.

More guides from other universities in English

University of Minnesota Kaltura-Canvas guides

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