Panopto for Instructors

When you enable both Zoom and Class Recordings (Panopto) in your Canvas site, any meetings you start by clicking Zoom in the course navigation menu and record to the cloud will be automatically saved in the Class Recordings area. Videos usually populate within 24 hours of recording.

To use this integration:

1. In your Canvas course site, go to Settings > Navigation and enable both Zoom and Class Recordings.
2. Click Zoom in the course navigation menu and set up a meeting.
3. Start the meeting in Zoom and record to the cloud.
4. Within 24 hours, the recording will appear in the Class Recordings area.

If you record, but do not want a specific video to be available to students, we recommend hiding the Class Recordings menu item temporarily. Wait for the recording to appear, then delete it. Remember to re-enable Class Recordings after you delete the recording. This prevents students from accessing Class Recordings while the video is being processed.

Using the Panopto Recorder (available to download after clicking Class Recordings > Create), you can record voice, webcam, and on-screen activity. A browser version of the Panopto recorder is also built into the Canvas Rich Content Editor. Look for the small green Panopto logo button to record and post anywhere you find a content editor box inside Canvas.

• Record on Mac
• Record on PC
• Record with web browser

Some classrooms at Penn have capabilities that allow instructors to record class sessions. Find your classroom assignment using Locate your class in Courses@Penn. Scroll through the information to view Schedule and Location. Find more information about your assigned classroom by clicking Reserve Classroom Space in Courses@Penn, then accessing the Scheduling Portal. Use the support information for central pool classrooms to find the IT staff member who supports your classroom, or reach out to your Local Support Provider if you anticipate needing assistance with classroom recording.

You can upload media directly to the Class Recordings area. Content stored there is available to everyone in the course.

Remember to add automatic machine captions to your uploaded media in accordance with Penn’s Digital Accessibility Policy.

Panopto enables you to edit videos you have recorded or uploaded. Follow Panopto’s step-by-step instructions for editing videos. As a safeguard, the editor tool does not cut video content but rather allows you to mark an area as “skipped”. Skipped content is not visible to students but can be restored if necessary.

1. From within your Canvas course, click Class Recordings in the course navigation menu.
2. Locate and hover over the video you wish to edit.
3. Click the edit button that displays at the top of the video.
   
4. The Panopto editor will launch in a new tab. Check the box to Preview cuts during playback. The video timeline will appear at the bottom of the screen, and you may zoom in as needed using the magnifying glass toggle in order to select portions you wish to remove.

You may embed media directly onto a Canvas Page and add it to a Module once it is in the Class Recordings area.

We only recommend adding media to a Canvas Page if the videos live in the current site’s Class Recordings tab. Class Recordings from one course are not available in other courses unless sharing permissions are managed.

If you do not embed videos in a Canvas page, students can access your videos directly from the Class Recordings area of the Canvas course.

To share videos or media with someone at Penn who is not enrolled in your course, change the sharing settings of the media you would like to share to Your organization (unlisted). This will allow you to share the media without making it public on the web.

You may create assignments in Canvas for students to record and post their own videos or other media to a shared assignment folder in Panopto. To access the folder and add their videos, students will either need to navigate to the assignment folder in Class Recordings or select the Panopto button (pictured below) to add content to the folder via the Rich Content Editor. Students can only use the button below if a student assignment folder has been created to store uploaded files.

• Instructions for students

Panopto has a feature that enables instructors to embed brief quizzes at specific points in a video. However, this quiz feature is much more limited than Canvas Quizzes. Please review Panopto’s Quiz documentation for more information and contact your Local Support Provider with any questions.

By default, Class Recordings are stored in a folder specific to a Canvas course and are only visible to users enrolled in that course. Please follow the steps outlined above in Copying Video Content to copy media content to a new course site.

If this process does not work, do the following within Panopto:

1. Open Class Recordings in your Canvas site.
2. Click the Open in Panopto button in the top right corner.
3. On the left side navigation menu, click My folder.
4. Inside My folder, create a new subfolder with a different title. Do not skip this step – My folder cannot be shared!
5. Adjust the new folder’s sharing permissions to Your organization (unlisted).
6. Add the videos you would like to reuse to this folder.
7. You may now embed or link these videos on any Canvas site. Students will be able to access them via any Canvas course where you have provided links.

Penn archives Panopto content after a prolonged period of non-use. Please visit ISC’s page on Panopto for IT Support Staff for details on the current archival policies. We encourage instructors to check their collections and regularly play videos they want to keep for long-term use. Playing a few seconds of a video will prevent it from entering an archived state.

Penn makes students aware of their obligation to protect copyright while using Panopto through the End User License Agreement that appears the first time a student logs in to Panopto, which requires the student to acknowledge that class recordings and other recorded materials are subject to the Policy on Unauthorized Copying of Copyrighted Media.

An additional copyright notice that previously appeared on each Panopto video has been disabled. However, instructors and administrators may re-enable this additional notice for their course content if desired. Follow the instructions below or contact your Local Support Provider for assistance.

1. Navigate to Penn’s Panopto environment.
2. Select the Panopto Canvas integration option from the drop-down menu and click Sign in.
3. Click the Browse button.
4. Locate and click on the folder containing the videos where you wish to add the notice.
5. Click the settings gear icon in the top right corner.
6. Click Settings in the left side menu.
7. Check the box to Show copyright notice on all sessions in this folder.
8. Repeat for content stored in additional folders or subfolders.