Effective May 21, 2025, UW System is making two updates to the Kaltura My Media video management integration in Canvas. These changes do not require immediate action from instructors, but they may require some instructors to change their workflows.
Removal of “Course Media” Buttons
The “Course Media” and “Course Media Settings” buttons, which are located on the right side of the Canvas course Home page, will be removed from Canvas. These instructor-facing buttons have long been obsolete and were created to help manage recordings made with the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing tool, which was discontinued at UWGB in 2021.
Using these buttons saves recordings to a course media group instead of personal instructor My Media libraries. This complicates video sharing and the management of video content. Since these buttons are no longer needed for their original purpose, UW System is removing them to eliminate the confusion they create for instructors. To ensure videos remain findable by instructors, Kaltura Administrators have moved videos created in course media groups from Fall 2022 onwards to their owners’ personal My Media libraries.
Recommended Alternative: Access My Media from the Account menu or Rich Content Editor in Canvas to create and upload videos. Please see:
Removal of Add New > YouTube Option
Due to YouTube’s updated terms of service, Kaltura can no longer generate machine-generated closed captions for imported YouTube content. To help ensure that videos in Canvas include captions for accessibility, the ability to add new YouTube entries to My Media will be removed from Canvas. Existing YouTube entries in My Media libraries will remain available.
Recommended Alternative: Embed YouTube videos directly into Canvas using the Rich Content Editor. When embedded directly, the captions that are available on YouTube will be shown in Canvas. Please see:
Thank you for your attention to these updates and your continued commitment to creating an accessible learning environment. If you have any questions about these changes, please contact dle@uwgb.edu.