Kaltura is the platform that VCC uses to manage audio and video media. It allows VCC instructors and students to upload, publish, and search videos, embed videos into online courses, and create video-based assignments and quizzes.
Managing your videos is important
Managing your uploaded videos (like any files you accumulate) is always recommended.
Over time, as you capture or upload videos into Kaltura, your "My Media" area may become unwieldy and more difficult to find specific videos. Deleting old, unwanted videos is the easiest way to speed-up your searching.
Video can also take up a lot of storage space, so it's a good idea to delete any unviewed or unwanted videos once they're no longer needed. In your "My Media" area, you can easily delete any Kaltura videos that you own (or have edit rights to). Note: Kaltura video deletions are permanent. There is no Undo!
What is "My Media"?
In Kaltura, "My Media" is the personal, private media repository belonging to each single user. Your "My Media" repository is where your media initially resides after you upload or capture it into Kaltura. (You cannot view the "My Media" space of another user and they cannot view yours.) Files stored in your "My Media" repository can be reviewed, searched, and edited before you decide to publish, embed, or link them into a Moodle course. It's like your personal video inbox.
Open your "My Media" page by clicking on "My Media" option at the top of a Moodle course, or in your user menu at the top-right of any Moodle page:
How to delete your Kaltura media
The video below provides you with a full walk-through of the typical functions available in "My Media".
Deleting media is covered at the 02:36 mark.
You can delete media from your My Media area either by clicking the trashcan icon to the right, or by checking the media's box and selecting "Delete" from the Actions menu.
Note: Kaltura video deletions are permanent (no Undo).
Your video file and its video player are not the same thing
There are two parts involved in showing a Kaltura video in a Moodle course or website:
- The actual video file that lives in the Kaltura system, outside of Moodle or your web page.
- The embed code or hyperlink that presents the video in your Moodle course or web page.
Your video is presented through a Kaltura video player that plays the selected Kaltura video file.
Even after you delete a video file from Kaltura, any places in your Moodle course or web pages where that video had been embedded in a player will now show an error message.
(The embedded video player doesn't know that the video has been deleted - it just keeps trying to load a non-existent video.)
This means...
- If you delete the video player from your course, the underlying video file still exists in Kaltura (but cannot be seen in that web page anymore).
- If you delete the Kaltura video file from Kaltura, any players in Moodle that were showing that video will instead show an error message because the media will be missing.
So, in addition to deleting the source media file from Kaltura, you must also remove the Kaltura Video Resource, hyperlink, or Kaltura embed code from your Moodle course or web page.
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