About

My Media is your personal space in Canvas for managing all the media you've uploaded or created over time. It's unique to each user, showing only your content, which remains private until you choose to publish it in one or more channels or courses. You can also collaborate by adding other users to your media.

With intuitive media cards, powerful search and filter options, and bulk actions, organizing and managing your content is effortless. Plus, you can access analytics, embed content, and easily manage everything according to your needs and permissions.

Access My Media

1. Go into your course.
2. On the left menu bar, click on My Media.
   The My Media page displays. Media is displayed on this page if you have uploaded it or were added as a media collaborator.

My Media page features

Media cards

Media items are displayed on the page in the form of 'cards'. Each card features the following:

• Thumbnail image
• Check box (clickable)
• Duration (for VOD only)
• Red LIVE indicator for scheduled sessions (during scheduled time only)
• Name of media - clicking will take you to the media page 
• Description - up to two lines of text display
• Three dots menu (learn more below) 
• 'Explore' link (learn more below)
• Status line - this displays the following:
  • Type of media (VOD, Live, Image, Audio, Meeting, and so on) 
  • Ownership (Owner, Co-publisher, and so on)
  • Number of plays 
  • Number of likes (this will only display if enabled in the Application module)
  • Publishing indicator - This shows the media's current publishing status. By clicking on the indicator, you can see where the media is published and whether its status is pending or rejected, as shown in the example below:

  

Three dots menu 

Click the three dots at the far right of a media to open the menu. The drop-down menu gives you the following options: 

• Edit - Clicking will redirect you to the edit media page.
• Analytics - Click to access the VOD analytics dashboard and get an overview of the media. See our article VOD Analytics for more information.
• Delete - Click to delete the media or move it to the Recycle Bin if this feature has been enabled. Check out our article Restore deleted items from the Recycle Bin for more information.

Explore

Click Explore to open a sidebar that displays additional information about the media.

The sidebar displays the following information:

• Media thumbnail
• Video preview, mute / unmute, and play / pause functions (for VOD entries)
• "Go to media" button - this will navigate the user to the media page
• Media name
• Name of publisher
• Creation date
• Media type
• Number of plays (or 'views' for images)
• Media description
• Tags - clicking a tag will navigate the user to the relevant category / channel
• Scheduled sessions - schedule is shown

The information in the Explore section will look different if you entered a search term beforehand. The Explore section will highlight related results, for example, if you searched for 'customers,' the term will appear in captions, tags, and more. See the image below for an example.

Click X Close to dismiss the panel.

Search

To search for content, enter your keyword(s) in the search field. As you type, you will see your search history if you have any. If you hover, you'll see an 'x', which you can click to remove the search from your 'previous searches'.

Press Enter on your keyboard to activate the search.

You can access advanced search options for specific fields by clicking the gear icon. 

The gear icon opens a drop-down menu with filters allowing you to search for the term in one of these specific fields:

• All fields
• Name
• Description
• Tags
• Chapters / Slides
• Captions
• Quiz (results from quiz questions and answers)
• Comments

Filters

Use the filters on the right of the page to refine, sort, and adjust your search. For example, you can filter by the Publish status of a media item, as shown below:

Sort By

You can sort results using the Sort by feature.

Available options to sort by:

• Relevance - scored according to how well search results match the query and its context
• Creation Date
• Update Date 
• Alphabetically 
• Plays
• Likes
• Comments
• Scheduling

Media type

Media type filters:

• All media
• Video
• Quiz
• Audio
• Document
• Draft
• Image
• Live events
• Room
• Interactive video

More filters

• Publish status – All statuses / Private / Published /Pending / Rejected
• Scheduling - All availabilities / Future scheduling / Available now / Past scheduling
• Ownership – Any Owner / Media I or my group owns / Media I can edit / Media I can view / Media I can publish
• Captions - All captions / Available / Not available
• Duration – Any duration / 00:00-10:00 min / 10:00-30:00 min / 30:00-60:00 min / Custom duration
• Creation Date – Any date / Last 7 days / Last 30 days / Custom
• Last update date - Any date / Last 7 days / Last 30 days / Custom

Click Clear all filters to reset all filters and sorting back to the defaults. If no filters were used, the button will be grayed out.

Bulk actions

When you click the checkbox of one or more entries, the bulk actions header appears at the top of the page with the following options:

• Delete
• More actions

These actions are hidden until at least one media item is selected.

Delete  

Select multiple media items and click Delete. A confirmation message will appear which will vary based on whether the recycle bin feature is enabled. To learn more, read our article Recycle bin.

More actions menu 

The More actions menu has a dropdown with options that can be applied as bulk actions.

• Add / Remove collaborators  - Add co-editors, co-publishers, co-viewers, and Webcasting moderators to your media. To learn more, check out our article Add / Remove collaborators.
• Transfer ownership - Allow someone else to take ownership of your media. To learn more check out our article Change media ownership.

Manage Media

To learn more about managing your media, please see Manage Media.