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Media Gallery

Every QMplus area has a course media gallery. You can use this to publish videos which have been uploaded to QMplus Media (Kaltura). It can act as a central media hub for your QMplus area. It also provides useful functionality such as being able to see the analytics for video usage in your QMplus area. You can also create playlists of your videos which you can use in a variety of different ways

By default, the course media gallery is not visible to students. It doesn’t have to be made visible to students to be useful. However, there may be times when you do want students to be able to access it. In particular:

  • If you’d like students to be able to download videos for watching offline.
  • If you’d like students to be able to publish their own videos to the gallery to share with others.
  • This guide describes how to make the course media gallery accessible to students.


Check the media gallery settings


Before you make the course media gallery visible, there are some decisions you should make and settings you should check.

More button in a red box and then media gallery in a drop down menu

Click on the more tab followed by media gallery.

The channel actions icon which is three bars is in a red box and so is edit within a drop down menu

Click on the Channel Actions icon and then select Edit.


Four options in a list

In the options section of this page, there are a number of settings you should consider.

  • Moderate content – we recommend that you check this item. This means that students cannot publish videos to the media gallery without a moderator allowing it. Unfortunately there is no way to turn off student publishing completely. Keeping this option checked will effectively prevent students videos appearing in the gallery.
  • Enable comments in Media Gallery – if you check this item, students will be able to leave comments on videos in the gallery.
    If you don’t want this, uncheck the box
  • Keep comments private to media gallery – related to the previous setting, if you have allowed comments, you can decide whether these comments are only seen by those with access to this media gallery. If unchecked, comments may be visible in other places where you have published this video…e.g. if you have used it in more that one module
  • Display embedded media in this media gallery – if you enable this option, any videos you embed into this QMplus area using the the QMplus Media icon in the editor, will automatically be published in this media gallery.

Once you have made your selections, click on the Save button.


Change the permissions on the media gallery


Participants tab in a red box, a drop down box with permissions highlighted in a red box


Select the participants tab, click on the enrolled users to reveal a drop down menu and then select permissions. 


Media is typed into the filter box and plus sign in red box



  1. Type “media” into the filter text box and the course media gallery settings should appear
  2. Click on the allow link in the ‘Roles with permission’ column, it appears as a plus icon +


Student role


Click on Student

The new permission is automatically saved…there is no save button.

Students will now be able to see the link under settings.


More tab and media gallery highlighted in student view


Other ways to make videos viewable


If you only want students to be able to view videos, you do not have to do this through the course media gallery. You can make your videos viewable in a variety of different ways, depending on what you are trying to achieve: