Presenter: Rebecca Lessem, Director of Training

Training & support resources under training tab of homepage

• Webinars (basic and advanced) plus Friday Q+A with Rebecca at noon eastern time

Overview of how recordings move through the Panopto system

• All videos are “deeply searchable” via automatic speech recognition + OCR software
  • Special plugin to powerpoint makes slide text searchable, too!
  • Title, keywords, metadata
  • Searchability is only English language-based? (Petar)
    • Yes
    • For other languages, uploading captions is recommended for searchability.
• Recording
  • You can record from any device (downloadable app)
  • Remote recorder functionality – start and stop times can be pre-set (not available for Macs, PC only)
  • You can also record outside of Panopto and upload to the platform
    • Will be processed and searchable the same as other videos
  • Quality of OCR? (Shel)
    • it depends – usually works well for printed text and/or stuff that’s on-screen for a while; handwriting is obviously trickier
  • Creators can add PDFs to their recordings as well as slides
• Viewing Panopto content
  • Interactive web viewer
  • Accessible via any browser
  • Android and iOS apps
  • Display is automatically optimized for the device you are viewing from
  • Mp4, mp3, tablet, android, and iOS viewing formats are available for every recording made or uploaded to Panopto
  • Admins have brand customization options
  • Are there multiple quality versions for adaptive streaming, or just one encoding per device type? (Zach)
    • Panopto should adjust automatically as long as you are accessing via the web viewer; mobile apps have just one encoding each, but creators can specify

Roles in Panopto and their permissions (creator, viewer, administrator)

• Admins (running the site)
  • Set featured videos
• Videographer
• Creators (instructors)
• Viewers (student)
• Access based on role types are available at the bottom of this page – https://support.panopto.com/articles/Documentation/user-permissions

Folders

• Course folder – shared with instructor and students
• My folder – personal to every user
• Assignment folder – allow for student recording
  • Everyone who is a viewer in the course would be able to record via this folder without technically being a creator
  • Can students easily download any videos they make for portfolio reasons? (Zach)
    • Yes – multiple output options can be selected and processed into a single mp4
• Shared with me
  • Any content you’ve been added to
• Bookmarked
• Browse
• Each folder has its own permissions which can be adjusted
  • Share – Google-esque options (specific people, organization wide, groups, public on the web, etc.)
    • Groups are not auto-synced from AD (too many); course groups synced on demand from the Hub, others must be (re-)created manually.
  • When you share a folder, you can assign read only, edit, or publish permissions
    • If enabled, “publisher” would have to give approval for content to become visible to viewers
• Our folders are set up by Program -> Year -> Semester -> Course (Joe)
  • We could structure our Panopto folders to reflect this
• Parent folder settings can be set to to apply to subfolders, or not
• Is there a master file? (Petar)
  • Each file is a master file
    • A copy of a file would be it’s own master file and would have to be deleted/adjusted separately from the original

Panopto from the viewer perspective

• Can adjust video speed
  • Fastforward
  • Slow motion
• Can annotate videos
• Can take notes
  • Private by default, can be adjusted
  • Notes can be taken in a group channel so everyone in the group can see/search each other’s notes
  • Saved as metadata so student can see/search later
  • Creator can delete notes
• Can participate in discussion
  • Like a group chat, more public than notes
  • Saved as metadata so student can see/search later
  • Creator can delete discussions (if content is problematic or creator uses same video from semester to semester)
  • Cannot be exported, we can submit feature request

Canvas Integration

• We don’t have it, but maybe we want it
• When enabled, Panopto shows up as a tab in the course menu
  • Embedded, searchable Panopto iframe within Canvas
• Instructor can make new recordings, adjust video settings, edit videos, share videos within Canvas via the integration
• Panopto button will show up in Canvas rich text editor
  • Content can be directly embedded into discussions, assignments, etc
  • Recordings will live in Panopto
• Permissions for Panopto files would carry over from semester to semester without having to copy the video. This can currently be done using the Course Hub.

Statistics

• Counts live stream watching? (Petar)
  • Yes

Can a live webcast be embedded? (Mack)

• When you prepare the link in advance, you can embed it, but it won’t show anything until the session begins.
  • Does it embed the live webcast or just the recording? Didn’t seem to work when we tested. (Mack)
    • Rebecca will follow up