Import Media Gallery: Canvas LMS to Canvas Catalog

[zen-dsgnr]

Greetings,

Currently in the process of moving several courses from Canvas LMS to Canvas Catalog.

Since the Canvas Cartidge format does not include the Media Gallery - I am looking for a way to import a Media Gallery from a Canvas LMS Course instance to a Canvas Catalog Course instance.

Any methods, suggestions or ideas to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Duke

[jsowalsk]

@zen-dsgnr A canvas course is used for Canvas Catalog and hosts the content. The only thing Catalog is used for is for registration and analytics. Where is the asset currently living?

[zen-dsgnr]

Alas, my institution has them on separate servers - I cannot access the Media Galleries in the standard Canvas Courses - so the course has to be exported as a Canvas Cartridge - then imported to the Canvas Catalog server.

[hechla]

Hello @zen-dsgnr, I'd like to try to help. It sounds like you're saying your institution uses a separate Canvas instance connected to Catalog than the normal Canvas instance your institution uses. Is this correct? My institute does this as well. We have a for-credit instance of Canvas and a non-credit instance of Canvas that is connected to Catalog. 

You've used the term Media Galleries and I'm having a difficult time fully understanding what you're referring to. Our Canvas courses don't have "Media Galleries" they have a Files section. Is that what you're referring to? Or are you using an LTI tool for the Media Galleries? If you're referring to the Files section, my experience is that everything in Files gets exported from a Canvas course when doing an Export. 

Speaking of Export, are you exporting the course through the Course settings (which creates an imscc file you can download)? When I do that, I can download the imscc file and then import it into a new course (in any Canvas instance). Is this what you're trying to do? 

Regards,
Adam

[zen-dsgnr]

@hechla Yes - my institution uses a separate instance of Canvas for the Canvas Catalog courses, in the same scenario (Credit versus non-Credit).

With regards to the Media Gallery - my institution uses the Kaltura video platform - each course has it's own Media Gallery with which one can embed videos in the course and also share that video gallery with other courses if necessary. The advantages to the gallery and video platform are things such as automatic captioning (even from external platform embedded videos), the ability to add various kinds of interactivity, and ease of sharing video galleries between courses.

I was actually able to export into the Canvas cartridge format and import into Canvas Catalog fine for the text items.

The problem is - the course is missing all of the videos from the Media Gallery - and instead, oddly embeds an iframed instance of the Home Page everywhere a video was embedded in the course in the "regular" canvas instance.

Thus if anyone else has come across this scenario - or has any ideas how to remediate - any info, thoughts, or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[jsowalsk]

@zen-dsgnr Is the Kaltura integration in that course? If it isn't, that could cause your issue.

[hechla]

Ah, thanks for the additional information. Unfortunately I have no experience with Kaltura but I do know that sometimes the LTI connections aren't automatically installed/integrated in the new course or they need to be re-established in the new course. So you may want to check on that. 

[jsowalsk]

@zen-dsgnr The Canvas course should be the same course you can use for Catalog. Not sure why you would need to import information to Catalog.

[jsowalsk]

@zen-dsgnr @hechla Yes, the integration needs to be reinstated to work.

[zen-dsgnr]

Kaltura is accessible from the Canvas Catalog course instance - the Media Gallery menu item is visible - except it is siloed off (context - in general, videos often fail to show up in courses due to outdated/over-zealous permissions at my institution) .

Does anyone familiar with Kaltura know if the media galleries can be accessed across "servers" with the LTI - or do the files need to be copied over to the new partition/server/whatever it is?

[jsowalsk]

@zen-dsgnr They need to be copied over.