How To: Use My Media to Save Storage

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This guide will walk you through the process of how to use Kaltura's My Media tool to share your lectures and videos without needing to increase your course storage.

 


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Enable My Media and Media GalleryUploading Videos to My Media Publishing Your Videos to All Your Courses' Media GalleryEmbedding Your Videos in the Rich Text Editor

 


Enable My Media and Media Gallery


To use Kaltura's My Media and Media Gallery in your course, please follow the Canvas Support KB article How do I manage Course Navigation links?

My Media and Media Gallery will need to be enabled in each of your courses.

 

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Uploading Videos to My Media


Once you have My Media and Media Gallery enabled in the course, you can follow the steps below to upload your videos to My Media.

Navigate to your Canvas course and click on the "My Media" link.

Image showing the Canvas course navigation highlighting the My Media link

If this is the first time you have ever entered My Media within Canvas, you will need to authorize it by clicking "Authorize."

Image showing the location of the authorize button

Once the My Media page loads, follow the Kaltura Support article Upload media in Canvas - Theming, which explains how to upload media and edit your media details, such as the title and description.

 

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Publishing Your Videos to All Your Courses' Media Gallery


After you have uploaded the videos to My Media, you can post them to all your courses' Media Gallery at once by following these steps.

Navigate to your Canvas course and click on the "My Media" link.

Image showing the Canvas course navigation highlighting the My Media link

Once the My Media page loads, follow the Kaltura Support article Publish media in Canvas - Theming, which explains how to publish your video to the Media Gallery in select Canvas courses.

 

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Embedding Your Videos in the Rich Text Editor


To embed your Kaltura videos in the rich text editor for any Announcement, Discussion, or Assignment, please follow these Kaltura Support articles:

  • Access the embed tool – Learn how to locate and open the Kaltura embed menu within the rich text editor.
  • Embed – Follow the steps for inserting your selected Kaltura media directly into the editor.

 

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