Overview

If you're a channel manager in MediaSpace, you can add, remove, and change the role of members. If you're the owner, you can also hand that role over to someone else. This tutorial walks you through how to perform these actions.

Critical Concepts

Things to Keep in Mind

• You must be a channel manager in order to access the member list. No other roles (moderator, contributor, or member) have access to a channel's settings.
• If you want to add a user on the front end, they must have logged into MediaSpace at least once. When you add a member to a channel, you start typing their username, and then select it from the narrowing list of options that appears. But a user's account in MediaSpace is only created after they log in for the first time and Kaltura pulls user information from their SSO login. So you may need to ask folks to go to https://mediaspace.ucsd.edu and log in before you can add them to your channel. That said, we can add usernames that haven't been created on the back end. So if you want to add a bunch of users without asking them to log in, just shoot us an email at kaltura@ucsd.edu and give the usernames (without the @ucsd.edu) and the channel name and we'll take care of it for you!
• If you'd like to create a group, contact us. Creating a group can make managing your channel a little easier. The disadvantage is that only Kaltura administrators can create and manage groups. So you'd need to stay in touch with us about the group members. If you'd like to create a Kaltura group, contact kaltura@ucsd.edu.

Channel Role Capabilities

See the table below to see what actions each role can take.

* Note that there is currently a known issue in MediaSpace that prevents unpublication of media you don't have publisher or owner access to. We have a bug fix request out to Kaltura about this.

Steps to Take

Regardless of what action you want to take, you'll need to get to the "Members" section of your channel configuration:

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 on the profile icon again and select My Channels.
3. Move your mouse over the thumbnail of the channel in question and click the pencil icon.
4. Click the Users tab near the top of the page.

Now that you're on the members page, there are several actions you can take. Scroll down or use the list below to jump down to the section relevant to your needs:

• Add a member
• Remove a member
• Change a member's role
• Change the channel's owner

Add a Member

1. Click the +Add Users button.
2. Enter the username of the person you'd like to add to the channel. As you start typing, a list below should start to populate with options that continue to narrow down as you type more letters. Once you see the correct user, click on it.
3. If you want to add more than one user, repeat step 2 for each user. (Note that each of these users will have the same role, though you can change that later.)
4. Click the radio button indicating the role you want the user(s) to have. (See the table describing channel role capabilities above for more information.)
5. Click Add.

You should see the name of the user added to the list onscreen.

Remove a Member

1. On the row of the user you want to remove, click the X icon.
2. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the user from the channel.

Change a Member's Role

1. On the row of the user whose role you want to change, click the pencil icon. The user's "permission" should become a pull-down menu, and the pencil icon should turn into a disk icon.
2. Select the role you want them to have in the pull-down menu. (See the table describing channel role capabilities above for more information.)
3. Click the disk icon in the user's row to save your changes.

Change the Channel's Owner

It may go without saying, but only channel owners can change who the channel owner is. Once complete, you'll be demoted (only slightly) to a channel manager.

1. On the row of the user whom you'd like to make the channel owner, click the key icon.
2. Click Yes to confirm that you want to change the channel owner.