Identifying a Video in Canvas

Last updated by christopher.phillips 3 years ago

Identifying a Video in Canvas

Most of the time, a Video can be identified using the Kaltura ID Chrome Extension . In cases where the extension doesn’t work, the below instructions maybe helpful.

If a video is already in the Canvas Media Gallery then it is easy to look at the title of the video. However, it is tricker to find the name or ID of a video when it is already embedded in a Canvas page. To do so, we will need to look at the guts (or HTML) of the page to find the video ID.

Steps to Find the Entry ID for a Single Video:

When you find a video in Canvas, right click on the video and click “Inspect”

A pane will open in your browser that should show you the HTML for the Kaltura video:

There is lots of gobbledy-good HTML in there, but what you are looking for specifically is a URL that includes “entry_id” in it. For example in this URL:
https://cdnsecakmi.kaltura.com/p/1530551/sp/153055100/thumbnail/entry_id /0_ih5anftg/version/100002/width/560/height/395

Directly after the “entry_id” in the URL is a 10-digit code that is unique to the video that you can copy to search for the video in the Kaltura Management Console .

If you are having trouble finding an entry ID - share a link to the page in the Slack channel!

Steps to Find the Entry ID’s for a Playlist:

A playlist is generally a set of Kaltura videos that show up together in one window. The easiest way to find a playlist is to look at the playlist title that is visible:

In this case, “Test Playlist” or you can look at the names of the videos in the playlist such as “Why Accessibility Matters” or “Caption Demo” in the above. Be sure to scroll down to view all of the videos.

For playlists, you do not need to add the playlist ot the course media gallery, just the individual videos in the playlist. As mentioned, you can look up the individual video names and look them up in the KMC (see Finding a Video or Set of Videos in the KMC ).

If the video titles are not helpful, you can also look them up through the playlist:

Once you have the playlist name or id, go to the Playlists tab in the KMC:

Do a search for the name of the playlist:

If there are multiple playlists that show up, you may need to look at the contents of the entry to find the right one. To view the contents of a playlist, then click on the Content tab:

Using that information you can look up the individual videos to add them to the course Media Gallery.