Overview

In Canvas, there are two main ways to make your videos in "My Media" visible to your students: publishing them to the Media Gallery and embedding them on Canvas pages. This tutorial will walk you through how to publish a video to a media gallery in Canvas. 

This tutorial only applies to Canvas users, and, while students are able to publish to Media Galleries as well, largely applies to instructors. 

Critical Concepts

Definitions

Things to Keep in Mind

• You can publish videos from several different locations within Canvas. We'll cover all of them below, but individually they can be advantageous in particular cases.
  • If you want to publish more than one video at a time to the same course(s), go with method 1 (publish from the list in "My Media"). 
  • If you're a member of a large number of courses in Canvas, go with method 4 (go to that course's Media Gallery and add media to it).
• If it's in the Media Gallery, anyone in the course can see it. If a piece of media is published to the Media Gallery, all members of the course can see it.
• But you can set a publication schedule. If you want, you can tell Kaltura when to make it visible in the Media Gallery and/or when it should become unavailable. See our tutorial "Set a Publication Schedule for Kaltura Media" for more information.
• Students can publish to a Media Gallery too. It might be handy to know that there's nothing preventing students from publishing videos to a Media Gallery of a course of which they're a member. So feel free to encourage students to share videos with the class that they think might be relevant. Note that no one can publish media to a course anonymously - a username will always be attached to the entry. 

Steps to Take

There are four ways you can publish media to a Media Gallery in Canvas, though it may be more appropriate to say that there are four locations from which you can publish media:

• Method 1: Publish from the List in "My Media"
• Method 2: Publish from the Player Page
• Method 3: Publish from the Edit Page
• Method 4: Publish from a Media Gallery

Method 1: Publish from the List in "My Media"

This method can be useful if you can easily find your entry in "My Media," or if you want to publish multiple entries to the same media gallery/ies. 

1. Log into Canvas.
   1. Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
   2. Enter your active directory credentials.
2. Click My Media in the global navigation on the left side of the page.
3. Find the video you'd like to publish and click the checkbox on the left side of its row.
4. Scroll to the top of the page and click Actions, then Publish.

Note that you can click multiple checkboxes in the list to publish more than one video at a time to the same course(s). 

5. On the subsequent screen, if it's not already selected, click the radio button for Published.
6. After your list of courses populates below the radio buttons, click the checkbox(es) next to the course(s) where you'd like students to see the video.
7. Click Save. 

Method 2: Publish from the Player Page

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

1. Log into Canvas.
   1. Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
   2. Enter your active directory credentials.
2. Click My Media in the global navigation on the left side of the page.
3. Click on the title or thumbnail of the video you want to publish.
4. Underneath the player, click Actions, then Publish.
5. Select the radio button for Published, if it's not already selected.
6. After your list of courses populates, click the checkbox next to the course(s) where you'd like students to see the video in the Media Gallery.
7. Click Save. Your video will now appear in the "Media Gallery" of the course(s) to which you published it. 

Method 3: Publish from the Edit Page

When you click the pencil icon on a video in "My Media," you're brought to the "edit page." In addition to a variety of edits you can make to your media, you can also publish it from here as well.

1. Log into Canvas.
   1. Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
   2. Enter your active directory credentials.
2. Click My Media in the global navigation on the left side of the page.
3. Find the video you'd like to publish and click the pencil icon on its row.
4. Under the video preview, click the Publish tab.
5. Select the radio button for Published.
6. After your list of courses populates below the radio buttons, click the checkbox next to the course(s) where you'd like students to see the video.
7. Click Save. 

Your video will now appear in the Media Gallery of the course(s) to which you published it.

Method 4: Publish from a Media Gallery

1. Log into Canvas.
   1. Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
   2. Enter your active directory credentials.
2. Enter the course in question and click Media Gallery in the course navigation on the left.
3. Click the Media tab at the top of the screen if it's not already selected.
4. Click Add Media.

5. Click the checkboxes next to all the videos you want to add to this course's media gallery. Use the search and filter functions to help you find your media.
6. Click Publish at the top right of the window.