Overview

Within MediaSpace, you can elect to publish a piece of media to a channel, and you can do that from several locations. Similarly, you can remove media from a channel (or "unpublish" it) in several ways. 

These instructions are only applicable in MediaSpace (not Canvas), and apply to all Kaltura users (instructors, students, and staff with active directory credentials), since any user can create a channel and publish material to it.

Critical Concepts

Things to Keep in Mind

• Unpublishing media from a channel doesn't delete it. Rest assured that your media will still be in "My Media" if you remove it from a channel. 

Known Issues

• If you're able to publish to many channels, all of them may not show up as options when you try to unpublish. Kaltura has acknowledged a limitation of their service: if you're a member of a lot of channels, Kaltura can't list all of them on the page if you follow most of these methods. If you aren't able to unpublish your media from a channel because of this, reach out to us at kaltura@ucsd.edu for assistance. 
• You currently cannot unpublish media when looking at the contents of a channel. Kaltura has acknowledged this limitation and is supposedly working on functionality that will allow channel managers to easily remove media from a channel this way. This also means that if others have published content to your channel, even as a channel manager you're not able to remove it. Currently only media owners and co-publishers can remove content from a channel. 

Steps to Take

There are three ways to unpublish media from channels in MediaSpace:

1. Unpublish from "My Media"
2. Unpublish from the Player Page
3. Unpublish from the Edit Page

Option 1: Unpublish from "My Media"

You're able to unpublish individual pieces of media when looking at the main list of your entries in "My Media." 

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 media entry in question, click the kebab (three dots) in its row, then Publish status, and lastly Change publish locations.
4. Uncheck the box of the channel(s) from which you want to unpublish the media entry.
5. Click Save changes. 

Note that if you want to unpublish the entry from ALL channels, instead of clicking "Change publish locations" in step 4 above, instead select Private. 

Option 2: Unpublish from the Player Page

You can also unpublish a video from the page where you can watch the video, also known as the "player page." You'd get here if you found the video in your list in "My Media" and then clicked on it, or by clicking on it in a channel.

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. Click on the title or thumbnail of the video you want to unpublish.
4. Below the video, click the kebab (three dots), select Publish status, then Change publish locations.
5. Uncheck the box of the channel(s) from which you want to unpublish the media entry. 
6. Click Save changes. 

Note that if you want to unpublish the entry from ALL channels, instead of clicking "Change publish locations" in step 4 above, instead select Private. 

Option 3: Unpublish from the Edit Page

In addition to being able to perform a variety of edits on your video on the "edit page," you can also control the video's publication status. 

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 video you'd like to unpublish, click the kebab (three dots) on its row, and select Edit. 
4. Under the video preview, click the Publish tab.
5. After your list of channels populates below the radio buttons, uncheck the box(es) next to the appropriate channel(s).
6. Click Save.

Note that if you want to unpublish the entry from ALL channels, click the Private radio button after step 4.