Overview

While Kaltura content in Canvas can be published to courses, users can publish media to channels. Anyone can create a channel, and they can have the members and privacy settings of your choosing. 

As implied above, channels are specific to MediaSpace and aren't visible within Canvas. Anyone at UC San Diego with active directory credentials can create as many channels as they like. 

Critical Concepts

• You can create as many channels as you like. Particularly given that Kaltura doesn't provide users with the ability to create folders in "My Media," MediaSpace channels can be useful in organizing your multimedia content.
• You can enable "channel collaboration," which gives channel members co-editor and/or co-publisher access to content published to the channel. This feature grants specific channel member roles that you identify (e.g. manager, moderator, etc.) the ability to edit and/or publish the media that's added to the channel. If you're interested in this, check out the relevant documentation below:
  • Add Collaborators to Kaltura Media
  • Enable Channel Collaboration

Steps to Take

1. If you're not already logged in to 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 Channels.
3. Click Create Channel.
4. Set your desired settings for the channel.
   1. Name: The title of your channel.
   2. Description: Though this field isn’t required, the channel’s description is an opportunity to provide context on the content that users will find in the channel or provide instructions/suggestions for contributors.
   3. Tags: Think of tags as keywords that facilitate finding your channel (if you intend to make your channel visible to UCSD folks or completely public).
   4. Privacy: Privacy settings articulate the overall visibility of your channel. See the table below for more information about each privacy setting.

4. 5. Moderate content: If you allow other users to contribute content to your channel, you can make it so that you (and other content managers that you designate) have to approve that content before it's added. For channels that allow many users to add content, this can be a useful feature.
   6. Enable Subscriptions to Channel: If this box is checked, a button will be visible on your channel enabling users to subscribe to it. If subscribed, they’ll be notified when new content is added.
5. Click Save.

Your channel has now been created.

Interested in the idea of automatically providing certain channel roles (moderator, manager, etc.) with co-editor and/or co-publisher access to all content published to the channel? Check out our knowledge base article on enabling channel collaboration.