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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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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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- Video link sharing (10)10.0100%
- User management (10)9.090%
- Internal video (10)8.080%
- Per viewer tracking (10)8.080%
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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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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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Panopto allows us to organize all of the videos that created and put them in a central place. It allows us to search for and categorize the vides so they can be found easily. We can also control who sees the videos based on audience. We can also get stats on who is viewing the videos.
- Great captioning features
- Easy uploads
- Timestamps for videos
- Captions aren't perfect for industry standard words
- Would like more SCORM features
- Sometimes there are delayed processing times after uploading
- Captioning
- Video tagging/classification
- Controlling video access
- Playlists
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- Put all our videos together in one central place
- Use playlists and security features to control who sees what
- See statistics for who is watching what
Panopto has the best captioning features that I've seen for a video repository. This enables us to caption videos quickly and efficiently. It also has tags and chaptering which makes viewing videos easier. We can also link videos inside Panopto to outside entities without needing them to have a Panopto account.
Panopto works best if you have a LOT of video content, but if you only have some or don't care about organization, SharePoint (or Microsoft Stream) might be a cheaper/more efficient option.
Panopto works best if you have a LOT of video content, but if you only have some or don't care about organization, SharePoint (or Microsoft Stream) might be a cheaper/more efficient option.
January 24, 2022
Medical Practice - to Panopto or not to Panopto
We use Panopto to record and broadcast teaching sessions, with students and learners having the opportunity to watch on their own schedule, search the lectures, and save notes directly within the system. They can pose questions and comment to the whole group, and have an organized system for themselves to reference later on. The multiple screens both shows the presenter and the presentation.
- Recording of lectures: You can watch these in an organized fashion, at varying speeds
- Searchability for lectures, and within a lecture, makes it particularly easy for learners to look things up
- Comments and notes available privately, or publically.
- Can only speed up to certain speeds - i.e. if someone wants to do 1.6x, they cannot.
- Could have a simpler, or prettier user interface
- Searchability
- Organization
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- Overall, it was particularly useful to dissseminate information for medical practice
- We appreciated the ability to broadcast findings and plans especially during the Covid-19 pandemic
Overall, Panopto is much better organization. Their is no case against this!
Panopto was used mainly as a method of providing anytime-anywhere access to important educational content. Faculty and students can use it to record events, presentations, demonstrations, and impromptu meetings.
It was initially used by some early adopters at the university, but gained popularity as the "flipped classroom" paradigm grew. It allowed students to have access to information at their own pace, and when they were ready to digest it. Since people process information at different rates, having a recording that can be paused, replayed, and slowed down (or sped up) provided flexibility in terms of students controlling their individual progress.
It was initially used by some early adopters at the university, but gained popularity as the "flipped classroom" paradigm grew. It allowed students to have access to information at their own pace, and when they were ready to digest it. Since people process information at different rates, having a recording that can be paused, replayed, and slowed down (or sped up) provided flexibility in terms of students controlling their individual progress.
- Simple to use - It really is a click-and-go system. Log in, click on record, and you're set.
- Flexible - It allows multiple information-rich inputs to be recorded simultaneously (for example, the screen, webcams, microphones, etc.). For some demonstrations, having multiple perspectives/views can be beneficial. The ability to add multiple webcams enhanced the value of some of my recordings.
- Reliable - This is critical when an unforeseen opportunity arises and you want to capture it visually and with audio. I had multiple experiences where a unique person was available briefly and due to Panopto's reliability, I was able to capture content that would otherwise have been seen by only those physically present at the time.
- The initial cost of ownership for our facility was a point of contention until a sufficient number of faculty and students expressed their desire to have access. I'm not sure how the pricing is determined these days, so that might have been resolved.
- Tutorials for allowing multiple users to have access to content with various administrative levels would be helpful. Owners, viewers and others who aren't familiar with the options available to them might benefit from more tutorials.
- It's a stretch, but having an automated system that suggests "trimming" the length of recordings that begin prior to the important content might be useful. In some cases, I would start a recording but not get done with preliminary discussions in a class for a few minutes prior to focusing on the day's material. Including that in recordings doesn't look as professional as it could, and could be considered a waste of a viewer's time.
- Simplicity. It doesn't take much training at all to learn to use it. In fact, I created some 30-second to 1-minute videos to cover the main points needed to create recordings (and I did them using Panopto!).
- Scalability. With so many new students entering our university each year, Panopto had to be able to handle the increased load.
- Reliability. Our IT department didn't need to work quite so hard since Panopto seems to have addressed the "pinch points" that can typically occur while using such a system.
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- I'm not at the level where I could provide information on ROI, but as a professor, I can unequivocally state that students were more prepared after we started using Panopto than prior to using it. I attribute that largely to information access unencumbered by time (of day), pace (recordings can be adjusted for speed), or space constraints. That made my task much easier as I could have them view materials that were previously recorded instead of inefficiently using time during class to answer questions that were asked and answered previously.
- Almost all of my students were initially either ambivalent or a bit worried about submitting presentations on video but once they did, they noticed that their presentation skills improved, as they were able to practice, review, and re-record if needed. In my opinion that prepared them better for their careers.
- A culture of cooperation grew as we increased the use of Panopto for recordings, as I would contact individuals from various departments across campus to work on interdisciplinary projects. The ability to have snippets (short recordings) from experts in their respective areas, addressing aspects of materials covered in our program enhanced the perception (and I would argue, the reality) of quality of our program.
The only other products like Panopto that I have used are Studio (which is part of the Canvas LMS) and Tegrity.
Studio seems to be much more limited in its functionality, but perhaps it is intended to serve a different audience/market. I prefer Panopto's ability to link to multiple resources (e.g., .pdf documents, other websites, related Panopto recordings, etc.).
Tegrity was the other "lecture capture" system that I tested approximately 12 years ago and my decision to go with Panopto then was based on student feedback. They liked Panopto's ease of use and simplicity.
Studio seems to be much more limited in its functionality, but perhaps it is intended to serve a different audience/market. I prefer Panopto's ability to link to multiple resources (e.g., .pdf documents, other websites, related Panopto recordings, etc.).
Tegrity was the other "lecture capture" system that I tested approximately 12 years ago and my decision to go with Panopto then was based on student feedback. They liked Panopto's ease of use and simplicity.
Panopto is available for all users (faculty, staff, students) at UMBC. It provides a screencasting platform for recording lectures, just-in-time tutorials, how-to videos, and more. We use to archive webinars and organize/distribute training content. Panopto allows us to capture media content quickly and easily, and distribute that media to a variety of platforms and internet speeds, which helps users who may not have the optimal environment for accessing content.
- Easy to set up and record desktop with dedicated application or browser tool.
- Automated speech to text generated captions for accessibility.
- Simple editing tools to snip beginning and end or edit out sections in the middle.
- Panopto doesn't fully support Ultra courses in Blackboard - we can do quizzing, which is very helpful, but we can't do video submissions like an Original course.
- There is no built-in certificate option for completing a video and its quiz questions, which requires us to use additional systems for tracking and awarding.
- Analytics are mediocre. The reporting tools are challenging to use and to get clear information on a consistent basis.
- Quizzing is limited to multiple choice or T/F -- there is no reflection point or open-ended question format.
- Support for both single-sign on AND our learning management system (e.g., Blackboard).
- Adaptable video delivery for device and bandwidth.
- Ease of recording functionality - how quickly can an instructor start recording lectures and post the links back into the Blackboard course site.
- Support for accessibility, in this case, speech to text captioning is mostly accurate.
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- During the pandemic, Panopto allows our faculty to quickly stage up lectures that were normally delivered in person, and these recordings reached thousands of students who could not come to campus for class.
- Both faculty and student report high satisfaction with the flexibility and convenience of having Panopto video content available in a course to watch and rewatch for learner reinforcement.
- Panopto's adaptable media distribution reduced impact on student technology and internet speeds when they might not have access to broadband connections, allowing them to continue to access essential course materials.
- Speech to text capabilities. increase accessibility compliance of media content.
- Archiving training materials in Panopto allows faculty, staff, TAs, and students to easily find recordings for reference.
Panopto holds us fairly well against these other tools as a recorder and basic editor. It's easy to download the application or use a browser based tool to start recording in a few minutes. Video encoding is relatively fast so content can be distributed to students quickly. Screencastomatic (not listed in your platform) allows you to record a portion of your screen rather than the entire desktop and it offers better editing tools. You can also export a short clip as an animated GIF, which is very helpful for creating support documentation. Kaltura provides two more quizzing formats compared to Panopto (open-ended response, reflection point), which could be incredibly useful for faculty and learners while watching content or just after consuming content.