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Panopto

Overview

What is Panopto?

Panopto is a video management platform for businesses and universities from the company of the same name in Seattle, supporting the recording, sharing, live streaming, and (after recording) sharing via LMS or internal video site, video search, and virtual classroom.

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Users of Panopto have found the software to be incredibly versatile for a wide range of use cases. From recording events, presentations, …
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Popular Features

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  • Video link sharing (10)
    10.0
    100%
  • User management (10)
    9.0
    90%
  • Internal video (10)
    8.0
    80%
  • Per viewer tracking (10)
    8.0
    80%

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Pricing

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Pro

$14.99

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Video Marketing

Features related to using video marketing content, as well as marketing videos themselves.

7
Avg 7.2

Video Platform Integrations

Integrations between the enterprise video platform and other business applications.

9.4
Avg 6.3

Video Security

Features related to the security of an organization's content stored on an enterprise video platform.

8.8
Avg 8.7

Video Player

Features that support playing and watching video content that is hosted on the enterprise video platform.

8.4
Avg 8.4

Video Analytics

Features related to collecting and analyzing data around video streaming quality, viewer behavior, etc.

7.5
Avg 7.5

Video Hosting, Management & Storage

Features related to hosting, managing, and storing video content.

8.1
Avg 8.5

Video Engagement

Features to engage viewers around video content, particularly for live streams.

8.8
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is Panopto?

Panopto Video

What is Panopto?

Panopto Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Panopto is a video management platform for businesses and universities from the company of the same name in Seattle, supporting the recording, sharing, live streaming, and (after recording) sharing via LMS or internal video site, video search, and virtual classroom.

Reviewers rate Video link sharing and Audience polling highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Panopto are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users of Panopto have found the software to be incredibly versatile for a wide range of use cases. From recording events, presentations, and demonstrations to capturing impromptu meetings, Panopto offers flexibility and convenience for content creation. Faculty and students have embraced the platform as a tool to provide anytime-anywhere access to educational content, aligning with the growing popularity of the flipped classroom paradigm. With Panopto's recording capabilities, students can control their individual progress by pausing, replaying, and adjusting playback speed, enhancing their learning experience. The software's availability for all users at UMBC, including faculty, staff, and students, further demonstrates its broad appeal in various academic settings.

Panopto's features extend beyond traditional lecture capture, serving as a versatile screencasting platform that enables users to record lectures, tutorials, how-to videos, and more. The software has been used extensively to archive webinars and organize/distribute training content. Its quick and easy media content capture and distribution capabilities cater to users with varying internet speeds and environments. Notably, Panopto has been adopted by an increasing number of staff members for recording lectures and creating short videos for students. Furthermore, dispersed student groups across different campuses have greatly benefited from the accessibility of Panopto, particularly when it comes to accessing assignment information and grappling with challenging teaching concepts. Overall, Panopto has transformed teaching and learning experiences across institutions by increasing engagement with students through searchable video recordings that greatly enhance their learning journey.

Users commonly recommend using Panopto for educational or lecture-based settings. They suggest considering it as an affordable solution for storing Zoom recordings. Additionally, they recommend taking advantage of Panopto's features, such as the notes feature for taking notes at specific times in a video, and its ability to share live streams and organize lectures with supporting materials. It is also advised to evaluate other tools before choosing Panopto, as some users have experienced performance issues on OSX. Users also recommend upgrading the support package for more end-user support and following Panopto's hardware recommendations for better compatibility. Furthermore, users praise Panopto's support, feature set, and ease of use. They suggest exploring its features through a trial and taking advantage of customer service. However, it is important to note that Panopto is not a professional editing tool. Users also appreciate the ease of use and video editing features in Panopto and find it helpful for managing and sharing educational content. They suggest checking the group before sharing content and offering training when implementing Panopto or onboarding new team members. Furthermore, users find Panopto to be a valuable lecture capture solution for easily reviewing lectures or meetings. To effectively use Panopto, users advise watching training videos and having tech support available. They also recommend Panopto for capturing tribal knowledge or educational content and suggest laying out a clean and organized structure while understanding how permissions work in the platform. Finally, users emphasize that frequent use makes using Panopto easier over time.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Panopto is great if you have a lot of video content that you need to put in a central repository. It makes it easy to manage who sees it and how it is categorized. The captioning features are also really good too. For folks to view the video, they don't need a Panopto account. You can send them a direct link. If you want to upload videos, however, they will need a Panopto account.

If you only have a few videos or care less about usage statistics, SharePoint may be a better file repository option.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited for lectures when there are >50 lectures, to help organize and search. Particularly useful when we are looking back at lectures. I am not sure this would be as useful for business style presentations, unless one has many searches.
Frank J. Fedel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The more I used it, the more I appreciated its ease of use. If I ever ran into a situation that I felt might be a learning opportunity at some point in the future, I would simply log in, record a session, and only allow access if/when it was appropriate later. Since the more recent versions also work on mobile phones, there really wasn't a time when I couldn't record something to review or present later.

During covid, teachers didn't have access to their normal equipment, and students weren't always able to get access to a robust recording setup to do their recordings. Some students actually did recordings of presentations in their cars, or in the stairwells. Portability is powerful.

I think that we all run into situations where our presentation didn't go quite as well as we had intended. As Panopto grew, they focused more on allowing the user to control their content and perform some basic (I would argue more than basic) editing, which made actions like awkward pauses easy to "fix" as you could create smooth, blended transitions easily.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Panopto works well to easily capture, store and share videos to the cloud. Since there are not any plugins needed to watch videos in a web browser, it becomes simple for end-users to watch videos on nearly any modern device. We use Panopto for lecture capture, training videos and students can create videos of their speeches and presentations to share.
Mariann Hawken | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Panopto is ideal for screencasting or lecture capture -- that is, recording your desktop lecture via PowerPoint or Google Slides. You can easily switch out applications for software demos, how-to videos, course tours, and more. Panopto has been successfully used for online/hybrid learning, faculty/staff training, knowledge base documentation, frequently asked questions, just-in-time support and tutorials, webinar archives, and more. Panopto is less suited for webcasting as there's a delay in the feed.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the higher education market, the choices tend to boil down to Panopto or Kaltura. Panopto has a robust lecture capture system that supports a wide range of formats and inputs. The ability for the student to select the source they want to see (slides, camera view, etc.) for the lecture makes it much easier to "set it and forget it." The live transcription and searching within the video also are valuable tools. Panopto is not nearly as well polished in the backend as Kaltura (especially after Kaltura's most recent backend overhaul). On the support end, Panopto's role permission and sharing options are confusing. Its integration with the LMS is not as robust as Kaltura's, and its analytics are lacking. Panopto was more cost-effective than Kaltura.
Elora Marston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Panopto is great for "one to many" deliveries for lectures as well as short video introductions, assignment, briefs and other information for students. It is less appropriate as a conferencing tool which many of our staff are looking for so that students can interact live with the presenter. Students can ask questions but it is hard to manage this if you are live streaming and presenting information.
Gemma Witton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Panopto is most useful for helping to engage students in learning, widening participation by increasing flexible learning opportunities, and enabling innovation with video in learning and teaching.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Panopto is good for recording lectures, whether they be in physical classrooms or by instructors sitting at their office computers. Being completely cloud-based takes the load off internal resources. Panopto is first a recorder, unlike many of its competitors which focus first on being a media library/repository. Panopto is really weak on student video assignments because it is overly complicated for a student to submit a video to an instructor's folder. It is affordable compared to the competition but does have shortcomings for student assignments.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
There are easier tools out there that do similar things and are faster without having the budgeting wildcard of Panopto's pay-per-view pricing. While the editing feature is nice, it is pretty temperamental and does not integrate or export to a format that is compatible with other programs such as Adobe After Effect, Premiere, Final Cut or Camtasia.

That said if you're working with a smaller budget/audience Panopto might be a friendlier alternative to something like Kaltura.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Panopto is great added to Canvas if you'd like a good screen capture program to add videos to courses. It offers the ability to add quizzes and make your videos have closed captioning, which is very good when making your content accessible for viewers with hearing impairments. It offers a timeline editor where you can add things like Powerpoint, Youtube videos, and quizzes directly into your videos. The quizzes can be taken while watching the video and in Canvas, you can choose to have it add a grade in the grade book for taking a quiz that is incorporated into the video, which is pretty nice. It isn't a fully functional polished video editor though. More like an enhanced screen capture program with a few bells and whistles.
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