Overview

Users with instructor roles in Canvas can create Media Gallery playlists. This tutorial walks you through how to create one.

These instructions are specific to users with instructor roles in Canvas (including TAs and Graders).

Critical Concepts

Things to Keep in Mind

• Playlists can only be created by users with instructor-like roles. Though students can add media to the Media Gallery by default, they're not able to create playlists. Anyone on the teaching team, however, can. This includes roles like Teacher, TA, and Grader.
• You can either add entries from your "My Media" or elements that have already been published to the course's Media Gallery. This means that you can technically create a playlist with entries you don't own - provided they're already in the Media Gallery.
• Playlists are course-specific. Playlists live in a Media Gallery, not in your "My Media," so each one is specific to a course. They can be copied to a new course along with the rest of the course materials during a Canvas course copy.
• You can create as many playlists as you like. But if you create more than 10, they won't be copied if you copy your Canvas course. (It's a limitation that Kaltura has acknowledged.) So if you have more than 10 playlists, have copied your course, and all your playlists are missing in the new course, send an email to kaltura@ucsd.edu. We have a back-end script at the ready to duplicate your old playlists.
• You can put any type of media in a playlist. It doesn't just have to be videos. You can add audio entries, images, quizzes, etc.
• Creating a playlist adds a "Playlists" tab at the top of the Media Gallery that is selected by default when a user lands on the page. We're not able to change which tab users land on by default, unfortunately.
• Creating a playlist automatically publishes those media within the "Media" section of the Media Gallery. Course members can find the media within the playlist or as individual entries in the "Media" section of the Media Gallery.
• However, deleting the playlist doesn't unpublish the media from the "Media" section of the Media Gallery. So if you don't want course members to be able to see those particular pieces of media, you'll need to manually unpublish them. See our tutorial on how to unpublish media from a Media Gallery if needed.

Steps to Take

1. If you're not already logged into Canvas:
   1. Go to https://canvas.ucsd.edu.
   2. Enter your Active Directory credentials.
2. 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.
3. Within the course navigation on the left side of the page, click Media Gallery.
4. Within the Media Gallery, click the Channel Actions icon (it looks like three horizontal lines, also referred to as a "hamburger" icon) and select + Create Channel Playlist.
5. Edit the playlist title, description, and tags, as desired.
6. Go to the "Add Items To Your Playlist" section and click the + (plus) icon next to each entry you want to add to the playlist. The items you add will show up on the right side ("Playlist").

Changes you make to your playlists are saved immediately - there's no "save" button. When you're done adding items to your playlist, you can click Go to Media Gallery at the top of the page if desired.