To create a channel for your videos:

1. Go to https://nuigalway.mediaspace.kaltura.com/ 
2. At the upper right, click Guest and select Login from the drop-down menu. If prompted, enter your University of Galway email address and password.
3. At the upper right, click your name, and then select My Channels.
4. Click Create Channel.
5. In the "Name" field, enter a descriptive name for your channel. You may also add an optional description and keywords (that is, tags).
6. Choose one of the following three privacy options:

• Open: Select this option if you want other MediaSpace users to be able to see and contribute to the media in the channel.
• Restricted: Select this option if you want other site users to be able to see the media in the channel. Only invited members can contribute. For instructions, see Adding users to a restricted or private channel, below.
• Private: Select this option if you want access to the media in the channel to be restricted to specific users (for example, the students in your class). For instructions, see Adding users to a restricted or private channel, below.

7. Review the following two channel options, and check the box(es) to enable them if you wish:

• Moderate content:  Select this option if you want to approve content uploaded by others before it is visible to users who can access the channel.
• Enable comments in the channel: Select this option if you want channel viewers to be able to attach comments to videos in the channel.

8 . To save your channel settings, click Save.

To add users to your channel:

1. Go to https://nuigalway.mediaspace.kaltura.com/ 
2. At the upper right, click Guest and select Login from the drop-down menu. If prompted, enter your University of Galway email address and password.
3. At the upper right, click your name, and then select My Channels.
4. Locate the desired channel and click Edit. 
5. Select the Members tab.
6. Click Add Member. 
7. In the "Add Member" dialog, enter the username of the person you want to add, and select one of the following roles:
   • Member: Can view channel content only
   • Contributor: Can view channel content and add media to the channel
   • Moderator: Can view channel content, add media to the channel, and moderate channel content
   • Manager: Can view the channel content, add media to the channel, moderate channel content, and  manage the channel (that is, delegate managerial rights to additional  users)
8. Click Add to add the member to the channel.
9. Repeat steps 6 through 8 for each person you want to add to the channel.

You can add media to a channel in several ways: By publishing media to a channel when you upload it, or by selecting it and adding it at a later  time.

To add previously uploaded media to your channel:

1. Select My Channels from the user drop down.
2. Locate the desired channel and click to open it.
3. Select the Media tab.
4. Click on the 3 dots in the lower right corner of the thumbnail to see additional options.

Click on My Channels in the User Menu.

The My Channels page is displayed.

Click on a channel under My Channels to display the channel’s playlists (if configured and available). The icon highlighted in yellow may be used to advance the media list.

Each channel thumbnail has a clear indication of all the information related to the channel including, the name, a thumbnail display of the last video added to the channel, total number of views and channel status.

After selecting the Edit icon, additional options to modify the media are displayed.

The following table lists some of the differences between categories and channels. On our system, any user can create a channel, but if you wish to use a category, you will need to get in touch directly.