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Kaltura - Creating Manual Playlists
Kaltura is the video portal for instructors, students, and staff across the University of Wisconsin System. Sometimes users want to display multiple videos in a single playlist.This guide explains how to do that in Canvas.
Example of a Playlist
Preconditions:
Before a user can set up a Kaltura playlist, the following must be true:
- the user must have access to a Canvas course
- the course instructor must add the Media Gallery to the course navigation (Settings > Navigation)
- the videos must be added to the Media Gallery.
The UWSA DLE Kaltura implementation currently supports manually-created playlists, where the creator has selected each video. It does not currently support rules-based playlists, which automatically select videos based on a set of criteria (all of the videos tagged "kitten," for example).
Creating a Manual Playlist
- Go to course in Canvas
- Click Media Gallery in course navigation
- On top right of the Media Gallery screen, click the hamburger menu, then Edit
- Click the Playlists tab near the upper left corner.
- On the far right of the Playlists page, click Create Channel Playlist.
- The screen will change to display the playlist details. Replace the default title with a more descriptive title. Complete other playlist details as desired.
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Click the "+" next to videos to move them to the playlist on the right.
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Click the Go to Media Gallery Button in the upper right corner.
- You will be redirected to the "Edit Media Gallery" page. You do not need to add any additional details at this time.
- Click Playlists from the upper right corner.
- All of the playlists associated with the course will now be displayed. Click the embed icon next to the player you want to use.
- On the Embed Playlist popup, select a Horizontal or Vertical playlist and then the Copy Embed link
- Insert the embed code into the HTML editor of the page you want. See Instructure's How do I embed a video in a page in a course? guide for instructions on doing this in Canvas.