Panopto

• Free to use with WashU license
• Integration with Canvas
• Panopto Capture desktop application can simultaneously capture the device camera and screen
• Multiple stream player with picture-in-picture that allows students to swap the primary video window during playback
• Searchable videos with automatic speech recognition (ASR) and optical character recognition (OCR) to capture and index spoken and written words
• A video editor to trim videos, edit captions, add audio descriptions, and attach slides
• Ability to add multiple choice, multiple select, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank quizzes to any video
• Ability to create private and shared timestamped notes
• A discussion tab for facilitating conversation among viewers
• Analytics on views and engagement

Panopto provides a secure, cloud-based platform for recording, managing, and sharing educational content. Its features and integration in Canvas make it ideal for engaging students with asynchronous video lectures, which have several benefits for teaching and learning:

• Accessibility: Automatic speech recognition and optical character recognition help all students take notes, search for keywords, and better understand verbal instructions. It particularly benefits students who are non-native English speakers, hard-of-hearing, or those who cannot play/hear audio in their learning environment.
• Dual-Processing: Video combines voice with visuals, two types of multimedia content that are processed separately in the brain (Mayer, 2005). Using both processing channels can reduce cognitive load and maximize learning (see Brame, 2015).
• Human connection: Videos allow students to hear an instructor’s enthusiasm and see multiple non-verbal cues that can enhance their own connection with the content and the instructor.
• Agency: Students can pause, rewind, and skip content so they can dive in deeper or review the content at their own pace.
• Save time: Videos can be used repeatedly and shared widely, therefore reducing the instructor’s workload once a high-quality video is made.

Easy:

• Record a video introducing yourself to your students and post it to Canvas.
• Create and post discussion questions for your students to think about as they watch particular sections of a video.
• Review the automatically-generated captioning for your video and edit the transcripts as needed. Like Zoom transcripts, Panopto auto-transcriptions may be inaccurate for technical terms or when audio is not clear.

Medium:

• Explain how you want students to engage with video content. When and how should students watch the content? What kind of notes should they take? Should students prepare to discuss the content further in class? How should students use videos alongside other class materials like slides, handouts, or assignments? Consider spending some class time modeling how you’d like your students to engage with course videos.
• Add quiz questions to enhance student engagement with your videos. These can be graded by creating an assignment in Canvas.
• Create video chapters to help students navigate longer recordings.

Advanced:

• Ask students to record and share their own videos on Canvas. Include milestones such as submitting a script or outline, submitting a practice video, and getting peer feedback (via video). Students will also learn how much work goes into creating your video lectures!
• Record real-world scenarios and pause at important decision points, asking students to comment with a description of the decision they would make and and explanation of the reasoning behind their decision.
• Take one of your existing assignments and give students the option of submitting a written or video response. Make sure to add adjusted guidelines for elements like video length, required content, or the expected level of editing.

Brame, C.J. (2015). Effective educational videos. Retrieved July 13, 2021 from http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/effective-educational-videos/.

Mayer, R. E. (2005). Cognitive theory of multimedia learning. The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning, 41, 31-48.

• Uploading Media
• Managing Media
  • Deleting Media
  • Moving Media
  • Copying Media 
  • Adding a New Folder
• Creating Media
  • Creating & Managing Recordings on Mac
  • Creating & Managing Recordings on Windows
  • Panopto Web Browser Capture
• Sharing Media
• Adding a YouTube Video

• Opt In to Have Your Recorded Zoom Meetings Saved to Panopto

• Quizzes
• Captions
  • Importing Automatic Captions
  • Uploading Captions
  • Editing Captions
• Playlists
  • Creating Playlists
  • Managing Playlist

• Getting to the Editor
• Trimming a Video
• Adding a Secondary Stream
• Adding PowerPoint Slides
• Adding a Clip
• Adding a Quiz
• Adding a YouTube Video
• Adding a Webpage

• Accessing Panopto Online
• The Create Button
• Navigation
• Managing Media
• Analytics

• Individual Video Analytics
• Course Analytics

When you copy a course in Canvas, you may want to copy your videos from your old course to your new one.  This process is not done by default, but copying videos- from any course you own- to your new course is an easy process.

Follow this tutorial to do so: How to Import Videos from a Previous Course

• Sharing Content Between WuEx and MyCanvas