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Panopto is the easiest way to record and share videos. Upload and host your videos inside a Canvas course or post them on the web. Search inside videos for any word spoken or shown on screen (PowerPoint slides!).

Panopto Retention Guide - any video that has not been viewed in 15 months will be automatically archived; after 5 years, any unwatched videos will be deleted.

If students need to create content for classwork, instructors will need to create an Assignment Folder to allow student video submissions.

Table of Contents

Getting Started
Panopto in Canvas
Zoom to Panopto
Panopto Folder Settings
Panopto Made Easy
What's New
Vendor Resources

Getting Started

Without Canvas - Log in to https://utexas.hosted.panopto.com with your UT EID.

Inside Canvas - Click on Panopto Video in the course navigation. If you don't see it, go to Settings > Navigation tab > Panopto Video > click to Enable > click Save.

IMPORTANT: Panopto MUST be added to the course navigation menu to allow students to be added to the viewer group in Canvas. Please instruct students to click on the Panopto Video tab once it is added to trigger their addition to the viewer group. This will allow them to view course content as expected.

Create Content a Variety of Ways

Captions, Notes, Bookmarks & Discussions

Creates a table of contents from slide titles with timestamps
Add auto-captioning to your videos; Panopto makes speech and slides searchable
Allow students to take notes (private) or collaborate with group/channel
Students can flag a particular spot in recording as a Bookmark
Allow logged in users to leave feedback for everyone in Discussions
- New - How to Use Discussion Notifications (Get notified when students post in Discussions)

Panopto in Canvas

Panopto inside a Canvas course, highlighting Create button options

Record videos and add quiz questions

Use a Panopto Quiz as student engagement or Graded Assessment (Submission Type = External Tool)*
- *Although Panopto Quizzes can be used as graded assignments, there are known issues that may cause disruptions to the grading process including:
  - Students must use the link in the assignment in order for their grade to be reported back to Canvas. Any quizzed videos launched from the Panopto Video section or directly from Panopto will NOT pass a grade to Canvas
  - If a user closes the video before taking the quiz or doesn't finish the quiz, nothing will be reported to Canvas and it will appear incomplete.
  - If you embed a video with multiple quiz questions, they will be rolled up into one score and tracked as one grade (i.e., 20pt assignment with 4 questions each worth 5pts).
  - It may take three to six hours from starting the video for the student grades to populate into the Canvas gradebook, but in some cases, this transfer has taken up longer or failed due to AWS outages. Therefore, we recommend against using Panopto grading on assignments with automated due dates, as you may need to review and manually update grades using Panopto logs.
  - More information on Panopto Quizzing as Canvas assignments.

Alternatives to Panopto Quiz grading
- Use the Canvas Rich Content Editor to add Panopto Recordings to Canvas Quiz questions. Canvas Quiz logs are detailed and this will avoid the potential delay from Panopto passing results to Canvas.
  - Additionally, you can disable Variable Speed Playback (VSP) and seeking on your students' first viewing.
- Export Panopto quiz scores from Panopto as a CSV then input manually into an Assignment. Note that if students are able to take the quiz multiple times, the scores stored by Panopto will reflect only the most recent attempt. The exported file containing scores is the record as of when it was exported. Any subsequent quiz attempts will be shown in Panopto and future quiz results exports.

Here is a study from the Journal of Chemical Education that shows video + embedded quizzing is better than video alone, for STEM learners.

Copying Videos

How to Manually Copy Panopto Course Content in Canvas - "reference" copies tied to the original (non-editable). Reuse your videos semester after semester!

Beginning Summer 2025, Panopto Course Copy will automatically copy your content when using Canvas Course Copy. Please review your Panopto course materials after the Canvas Course Copy to ensure that all transferred video content is FERPA compliant!

Copying & Moving a Video to a New Folder in Panopto [Copy/Move a single video]

Batch Copy Videos in Panopto [Course copy content and bring over Panopto videos]

Allow Students to Submit Panopto Video Assignments

General overview about Assignment Folders: https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Use-Assignment-Folders-for-Student-Recordings

For instructors: https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Create-an-Assignment-in-Canvas-as-a-Teacher
For students: https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Submit-an-Assignment-in-Canvas-as-a-Student

Zoom to Panopto Integration

This integration will move a Zoom cloud recording directly into Panopto. The recording will then be deleted out of Zoom automatically and only be available in Panopto. Any Zoom cloud-recorded meetings you schedule through a Canvas course will automatically move to that course's Panopto folder (the cloud recordings will be removed from Zoom once the migration finishes). In addition, any meetings you schedule through the Zoom website or client for which you enable cloud recording will move to Panopto as well. These will appear in your Panopto user folder (My Folder). You can control it (disable it or re-enable it) from your Panopto profile (the drop-down next to your name at top right when you log in at https://utexas.hosted.panopto.com).

Zoom vs. Panopto: How They’re Different and When To Use Them

Step 1: Adjust Your Recording Settings in Zoom

Go to utexas.zoom.us and log in to your Zoom Web Client
Under Settings, go to Recording
Under Cloud recording, select "Record active speaker, gallery view and shared screen separately" (below)
Save changes

Zoom settings you need to change

Make sure you configure your Zoom Meetings to "record to the cloud"

Step 2: Adjust Your Panopto User Settings

Go to utexas.hosted.panopto.com and log in to your Panopto Web Client
On the right-side, click the triangle next to your name and then click "User Settings"
On the Info tab, under "Meeting Import Settings," check the Zoom Integration box
Click "Update" to save

Step 3: Adjust Your Course Panopto Folder Availability Settings

Set new Panopto recordings to "not available" until you are ready to "Publish" by adjusting the 'Availability' of new recordings.

Go to your course Panopto Video page
Click the gear icon to launch Folder Settings
Click the Settings tab on the left and scroll to the bottom for Availability. Select "Never" to keep Zoom Cloud recordings from going "live" once they are converted by Panopto.
Click "X" to close window
When you are ready for your students to view the recording (after editing, adding questions, etc.), hover over the video, click the three dots and select Publish.

Notice the eye with a slash at the bottom of the thumbnail letting you know this recording is not available to viewers.

What's New

Exciting recent updates as well as what's coming next for Panopto, December Product Update Recording.

Panopto Resources

How to Trim a Video in the Editor

How to Add, Edit, and Delete Table of Contents Entries in a Video

How to Edit or Delete Captions

Upload an Existing Video into Panopto

How to Merge Videos

How to Use Add a Clip to Splice Multiple Sessions Together

How to Add, Edit, and Delete Slides in the Editor

How to Add a Quiz to a Video

How to Add Audio Descriptions - Audio descriptions provide visually impaired viewers with visual context of what is being presented in a Panopto video.

Panopto's How to Videos and Documentation