Overview

Kaltura users can reassign ownership of their media to someone else. This could be useful if you're leaving UC San Diego but want your media to still be accessible to someone who's staying. 

Critical Concepts

• You'll lose access to your media. It may go without saying, but when you assign someone else as the owner of your media, it will no longer show up in your "My Media." If you want to retain access, you can always give yourself a collaborator role before reassigning ownership.
• Only media owners can reassign ownership. This too may go without saying, but you have to be the owner of a piece of Kaltura media in order to assign a different owner. A co-editor or co-publisher role won't cut it.
• If appropriate, you'll still be the "creator." Each piece of media has a "creator" and an "owner." The creator can't be changed, so - provided that you were the actual creator of the media - you'll always be tied to it via that metadata.
• You can reassign ownership in either Canvas or MediaSpace, but only MediaSpace allows you to do it in bulk. This is because we enabled the so-called "design studio" for the "My Media" page in MediaSpace. One of the consequences (for some reason) is that it allows users to reassign ownership in bulk. 

Steps to Take

In Canvas, you can only reassign ownership one entry at a time. In MediaSpace, you can follow the same steps as in Canvas, but there's another way which allows you to do it in bulk. 

• Reassign ownership on the edit page (Canvas / MediaSpace)
• Reassign ownership from the main "My Media" page (MediaSpace only)

Reassign Ownership on the Edit Page (Canvas / MediaSpace)

4. Click the Collaboration tab below the video.
5. Click the Change media owner button that appears.
6. In the text field, type the username (email address minus "@ucsd.edu") of the person you'd like to be the owner of the entry. Once the correct user account appears, click on it and then click Save. 

Reassign Ownership from the main "My Media" Page (MediaSpace only)

While this is an alternative method of reassigning ownership of a Kaltura entry, it's also one way you can reassign ownership to multiple entries at once. 

1. If you're not already logged into MediaSpace:
   1. Go to https://mediaspace.ucsd.edu. 
   2. Click the profile icon at the top right of the page and select Login.
   3. Enter your active directory credentials.
2. Click the profile icon again and select My Media.
3. Find the entry in question and click the checkbox on its row.
4. Scroll to the top of the page, click More actions, then Transfer ownership.
5. In the text field, type the username (email address minus "@ucsd.edu") of the person you'd like to be the owner of the entry. Once the correct user account appears, click on it and then click Select. (If you want to retain some access to the media, click the box for "Make myself a collaborator." This will make you a co-editor, co-publisher, and co-viewer.)

6. Click Transfer ownership.