Panopto - Record and Store Media

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UT Support Contact: panopto@utlists.utexas.edu

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!).

Alert button with red light on a gray basePanopto 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.

Alert button with red light on a gray baseIf 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

Without Canvas - Log in to https://utexas.hosted.panopto.com Links to an external site. 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

 

Panopto in Canvas

Panopto inside a Canvas course, highlighting Create button options

 

Record videos and add quiz questions Links to an external site.

  • Use a Panopto Quiz as a Graded Assessment (Submission Type = External Tool Links to an external site.)
    • Students must use the link in the assignment in order for their grade to be reported back 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 for the student grades to populate into the Canvas gradebook.

Burnt Orange FYI speech bubble Here is a study from the Journal of Chemical Education Links to an external site. that shows video + embedded quizzing is better than video alone, for STEM learners. 

 

Copying Videos

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

Copying & Moving a Video to a New Folder in Panopto Links to an external site. [Copy/Move a single video]

Batch Copy Videos in Panopto Links to an external site. [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 Links to an external site.

 

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 Links to an external site.).

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

 

Step 1: Adjust Your Recording Settings in Zoom

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

Zoom settings you need to change

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

Image of Zoom Record Meeting Automatically and "In the Cloud" is selected

 

Step 2: Adjust Your Panopto User Settings

  1. Go to utexas.hosted.panopto.com Links to an external site. and log in to your Panopto Web Client
  2. On the right-side, click the triangle next to your name and then click "User Settings"
    Image of Panopto User Settings button from within Panopto interface
  3. On the Info tab, under "Meeting Import Settings," check the Zoom Integration box
    On Info tab, under Meeting Import Settings, check Zoom integration box and select Update.
  4. 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.

  1. Go to your course Panopto Video page
  2. Click the gear icon to launch Folder Settings
    Panopto Course Folder Settings icon on right of screen
  3. 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.
    Panopto Folder Settings > Set Folder to Availability = Never to prevent recordings from going live Zoom>Panopto
  4. Click "X" to close window
  5. 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. 
    Thumbnail of Panopto video identifying the Options and Publish buttons
    Notice the eye with a slash at the bottom of the thumbnail letting you know this recording is not available to viewers.

 

Panopto Resources

How to Trim a Video in the Editor Links to an external site.

How to Add, Edit, and Delete Table of Contents Entries in a Video Links to an external site.

How to Edit or Delete Captions Links to an external site.

Upload an Existing Video into Panopto Links to an external site.

How to Merge Videos Links to an external site.

How to Use Add a Clip to Splice Multiple Sessions Together Links to an external site.

How to Add, Edit, and Delete Slides in the Editor Links to an external site.

How to Add a Quiz to a Video Links to an external site.

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

Panopto's How to Videos Links to an external site. and Documentation Links to an external site.