IT Services - Manage a Playlist of Kaltura Media in Canvas

Overview

If you have playlists in a Media Gallery, it may not be intuitive how to edit them. Here's how.

Only Canvas instructors can edit a playlist, so these instructions apply to users with "teacher" roles in Canvas courses.

Any instructor (or Canvas admin) can edit a playlist, but you can only add media to which you have access. The idea being that you can edit someone else's playlist if you're an instructor in that course, but you can only add media for you which an owner or a co-publisher.

If you're not already logged in:
1. Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
2. 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.

A screenshot of the "playlists" tab after electing to edit a Media Gallery.

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. Because it only shows the 16 most recent items from your "My Media,", you'll likely need to search for what you want to add.
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.

If you still have questions or need additional assistance, feel free to contact us at kaltura@ucsd.edu.