--- title: "2-4. Edit Your Channel Settings" url: "https://support.sardius.media/knowledge-base/2-4-edit-your-channel-settings" category: "Intermediate Features (Level 2)" updated: 2026-08-20 summary: "In this episode of our Onboarding Tutorials, you will learn how to edit your channel’s settings. These settings will help you configure and manage your channel’s basic functions, including sharing a player link and finding an embed code." --- # 2-4. Edit Your Channel Settings **Video** > **Transcript:** back to our onboarding video series. Thanks to our last videos, our channel has been created and our default screen settings are configured. Now it is time to edit our channel settings. We’ll begin at the channels home page where you can see a card for every channel in your account. Each card will show the color and thumbnail you selected during the creation process, as well as the title and description you entered earlier. If your channel has a current live event, it will say live in the upper corner. The lower right corner will show you if your channel is currently receiving a live stream from your encoder. If you have an event scheduled, you will see the next or active session on the card, along with a countdown timer. Below that, there are some basic controls depending on your channel type, such as a player link layout, customization, chat settings, channel settings, and the ability to delete or archive your channel. For this video we are going to focus on the channel settings icon. This will open the channel settings pane. If you are elsewhere in your channel, as the event calendar, you can also access the channel by clicking on channel settings on the sidebar. Depending on your channel set up the options available to you may change. For instance, player only channels will not have the chat rooms or event window tabs. This video will cover all options. In the information tab, you can edit the channel's title and description. You can also select whether or not to use another channel's calendar. This option is ideal for clients who want to have a channel with a slate layout for special events but want to create a secondary player for internal use or to embed on the website. Below all this is an option to delete the channel. Be careful in clicking this button because once your channel is deleted it cannot be recovered. the general tab and the locale settings, you can select the default language for the channel, which is handy if you cater to audiences in multiple languages and countries. You can also set the primary time format for 12-hour or a 24-hour clock. In the Chat rooms tab, you can review all chat rooms for your channel. From here you can create new chat rooms, edit the title and select the chat room type. We'll go into more detail on chat rooms in a later video. Under the logos tab, You can set a logo to be used on the channel's homepage. You can also set a favicon for your channel that will display in browser tabs and mobile devices. Under the Social you can add a Google Analytics ID should you wish to track select channel stats to your organization's Google account. You can also upload a sharing image which will show if you paste a link to your channel in a Facebook or similar social media account. You can add a title and description for your channel that will be displayed on social accounts when the link to your channel is shared. The social sharing title will also display in browser tabs. You can also add some custom HTML to import CSS files, scripts, or meta tags for your channel. Finally, the event window tab allows you to show more or fewer events in your timeline. This feature is primarily used in layouts like Slate that show an event schedule. This completes an overview of your channel settings. we go, let's take a look at how you can access your channel and share the link with others. every section of this channel management area., you can see in the upper right hand corner the options to share and open your channel. The open button will open your channel page or your player in a separate tab. When you click on the share button, a model will appear. This model will contain a direct link to your channel URL or player URL. It will also contain an embed code where you can embed your channel into a separate website or app if you're using a player only layout, this embed code will just insert a player into your website. If you are using a layout like Slate or Collection, the embed code will contain your full channel page. select either of these links, just click once on the appropriate field. The link or code will be immediately copied to your clipboard. covers your channel settings. In our next video will show you how to schedule your first event. See you there. In this episode of our Onboarding Tutorials, you will learn how to edit your channel’s settings. These settings will help you configure and manage your channel’s basic functions, including sharing a player link and finding an embed code. **Onboarding Video Series (Level 2)**   - **Next Video: [Overview of the Player-Only Layout](https://support.sardius.media/knowledge-base/2-4-overview-of-the-player-only-layout)** - _Previous Video:_ ****[Manage Devices and Outputs](https://support.sardius.media/knowledge-base/2-3-manage-outputs-and-devices)****