Overview
If you have playlists in a Media Gallery, it may not be intuitive how to edit them - or at least how to get to the page where you can. Here's how.
Only those on the instructor side in Canvas can edit a playlist (Teachers, TAs, Graders, etc.).
Steps to Take
If you're not already logged in:
- Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
- Enter your active directory credentials.
- Within Canvas, enter the course in which you want to create a playlist by either clicking on the course in your dashboard or clicking Courses and selecting the course.
- Within the course navigation on the left side of the page, click Media Gallery.
- Within the Media Gallery, click the Channel Actions icon (it looks like three horizontal lines) and select Edit.
- Click the Playlists tab near the top of the page.
- Find the playlist you want to edit and click the pencil icon on its row.

- Perform your edits.
Types of Playlist Edits
You can do a handful of things to existing playlists:
Change the order of items in the playlist. Click and hold the two horizontal lines on the left side of any entry to drag and drop it wherever you like.- Edit the metadata. You can edit the title, description, and tags.
- Add new items to the playlist. In the same way you did when you first created the playlist, you can find items on the left side of the screen and click the + icon next to it to add it to the right side of the screen.
- Remove items from the playlist. Click the kebab (3 dots) on the right side of any entry added to the playlist and select Remove.
- When you're done making your edits, be sure to click Save at the top of the page.