Panopto has three primary types of usage:
- Screencasting - Use the Panopto software to record video, audio, powerpoint, or your computer screen.
- Lecture capture - Recording classroom lectures.
- Video hosting - Linking, embedding, and sharing videos: Within Sakai, via email, or your own course site.
1. Use Panopto to record content that students watch outside of the classroom.
- Ever wanted to flip your class so you could spend less time presenting and more time discussing?
- Do you ever think that your students might need a little more information about a particular topic?
- Do you ever answer the same questions over... and over.... and over...?
- How many times have you read your syllabus in class at the beginning of the semester and is that the best use of anyone's time?
Panopto makes it easy to create and share content. You can use it to help you flip your class, quickly create extra content, answer student questions, or read through your syllabus. Panopto can record your computer’s screen, webcam, and microphone and then instantly share the recording with your class. Just as importantly, you can reuse that content as many times as you want, in as many courses as you want.
2. Record my lectures? Why would I want to do that?
- What % of material do you think students understand the first time they hear it?
- How many classes do students miss due to illness, athletics, and job interviews?
- Some of your students may have an unreported physical or learning disability.
- Women are far less likely to interrupt an instructor to ask a question during a lecture.
- If there a language barrier, hearing the material again can be incredibly helpful.
- Some faculty record their lectures so they can review their teaching style.
Regardless of why you choose to do so, it's easy to use Panopto to record and share your lectures.
- Turn on the Panopto tool in Sakai. (Don't use Sakai? Start here instead.)
- Install and configure the Panopto software on your laptop. (Don't have a laptop? Contact us.)
- Start your recording when class begins and stop it when class ends. (The recording uploads automatically and will probably be ready for students before you're back in your office.)
- Look at analytics to see which content is most popular. You can also see which students are watching the most content.
3. Upload and share content you already have and add things you find on YouTube.
- Bring Your Own Content: Many faculty already have videos they’ve used in the past. Videos you upload to Panopto will play on any device. That means you can be sure that no matter how old your video (or their computer), your students will be able to watch it. Your bell-bottom jeans and paisley shirts will look just as good as they did in the 70's.
- YouTube support: Nobody likes reinventing the wheel or recreating content. Now you don't have to. Panopto now lets you embed YouTube videos within a Panopto presentation, so when you find a great video on YouTube but want to add a little more context to it, it couldn't be much easier.
Let's say you want to make a video discussing the effect of dramatic lighting in film and you find the perfect clip on YouTube. You can use Panopto to make a recording which contains an introduction and a conclusion. After you upload the video to Panopto and the recording is done processing, you use the Panopto editor to insert the YouTube video into your presentation.
When students watch the video they’ll see your introduction, then the YouTube video, followed by your conclusion. To the students, it just appears as one continuous video.
You also don’t need to play the whole YouTube video. You can set the start and end points so students only see the relevant sections of the YouTube video. Just follow the instructions here: Embed A Youtube Video Into A Panopto Session