To get your Panopto folder you will need a Blackboard course and to then provision that Blackboard course. The course does not need an academic purpose to be created, although you will need to be a member of staff.
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When a version of Panopto has a known issue, we may make a help page here instead of adding it to the main Panopto help pages.
Your videos do not need to be re-processed and will be available immediately to students. The links to the videos will remain the same, however only the students assigned to the new folder / course will be able to see the video.
This page explains the best way to workaround having a video within your PowerPoint, while still having a high quality Panopto recording.
Panopto captures video in two different way. The primary video (help on recording primary video) is a fast moving, low quality video that normally appears in the top left hand corner of your presentation. The secondary video (help on recording secondary video) is slow moving, high quality video that fills the majority of the screen when viewed back.
Screen capture is a secondary video source and therefore is large, but jumpy (low frame rate). Also, secondary video doesn’t include sound; therefore your video will either be silent or be very poor quality (where only the sound picked up from the speakers by your microphone is recorded).
The best solution is to upload the video to Panopto and then replace the recording of your video with the uploaded video.
To do this you will need to upload the video from your PowerPoint into Panopto using our uploading guide.
Once the video is uploaded and processed (this may take some time, but should be under an hour) you can add it into your presentation.
This page explains how to create an area in Panopto that has a session pre-made per student. The instructor will need to log into Panopto, select a student name and press record. Once the video has been processed, it will be visible only to the named student and the other Blackboard instructors.
A student has submitted some computer code for an assignment. The marker wishes to talk about the code and show what happens when it runs by capturing the screen.
A student has created a piece of Art that is physically handed in to be marked. The marker wishes to give feedback by talking on camera about the physical object
This scenario is preferred for
Because we preconfigure the securing setting in advance, you will have needed to give iSolutions the student details before the assessment takes place. Raise a ticket with ServiceLine and include
For step 3 you will need to export a list of your student’s names and usernames. The “presentation title” will be what the student clicks on before they record their session and what the student / instructor / external examiner will click on to view the session. You may like to use the presentation title “Surname, Firstname (Student ID)” (for example “Peter Jones (4392843)”)
Once your ticket is submitted to iSolutions (give the ticket the subject “Recording feedback with Panopto”) we will create the folder and sessions.
Each session can only be used once. If you wish to remake a session, you should make it unavailable to the student and contact ServiceLine.
Panopto content can easily be rolled over each year, but only if the videos are in a particular folder. This page explains where content needs to be placed to ensure it is secure and available to the right students. “Rollover” is what we call the process of copying content from Blackboard from one year to another using the Course Copy feature within the Blackboard admin menu.
If you’ve followed our provisioning guide, you’ll have a Recorded Sessions area in your Blackboard course. This area contains videos that are available just to students on that course. This area is designed for content that is only applicable that academic year, for example, a timetabled lecture recording that you would be expected to redeliver next year.
The Recorded Sessions area will only show you this one Panopto folder (called something like BIOL1001-12345-18-19: 18-19 Introduction to Biology), but more folders are available on the Panopto admin website.
On the Panopto admin website, you can see all of the Panopto folders that are either
For each Blackboard course (for example BIOL1001-12345-18-19) there is a parent folder without a year date (for example BIOL1001).
If you wish to reuse videos across multiple years, it must be in the parent folder, i.e. the folder without a year in its title. This folder is what we are referring to as the rollover folder.
If you uploaded content into the Recorded Sessions area of Blackboard, but need it to rollover correctly, you can simply move the videos into the parent folder using our guide. It is important that you move the videos and do not use the copy button. The videos will immediately work, and you will not need to change any links in the previous or rolled over course.
iSolutions will soon start to follow its publicised content retention policy. This states that recordings will be deleted at the end of the next academic year after it is recorded. This retention policy will only affect content in a folder containing a year (e.g. BIOL1001-12345-18-19) and will not affect content in a folder that does not include a year (e.g. BIOL1001).
When you use the traditional method of uninstalling a piece of software from a Mac (drag and drop into the Trash then empty) you will find that the software will still leave some legacy information, which can cause the reinstalled Panopto Mac Recorder to not function correctly.
To fully uninstall the software from your Mac you must use a software removal tool, we recommend using the free to use AppCleaner.
Once you have installed the AppCleaner software, locate it and launch it. The AppCleaner’s icon looks like a recycling bag.
When AppCleaner is ready to use, it will ask you to drop your unwanted apps into its main window.
The next step is to simply locate the Panopto Mac Recorder from your Mac’s “Applications” folder and drag and drop the icon into the AppCleaner window.
When you have successfully dragged and dropped, AppCleaner will display all the related files of the Panopto recorder it could find. It will then automatically select the ones it needs to delete. At this point, click on the blue “Remove” button.
The removal process should be fairly quick and once done it will clear the AppCleaner ready for the next piece of software you may wish to uninstall.
All conflicting data will be removed allowing you to successfully install the Panopto Mac Recorder. You may now quit out of the AppCleaner or uninstall it by dragging the AppCleaner icon to the trash. (Please note we are currently asking Mac users to use Panopto Mac Recorder 5 found here)
We have been getting increasing reports since the start of semester 2 that the Panopto Mac Recorder has been failing to upload or is failing to process uploaded videos. This page contains our recommended workaround.
The Panopto Mac Recorder has been greatly improved in version 5. It can record primary and secondary screens, has keynote 6.5 ,6.6 and PowerPoint support and supports external cameras. Unfortunately iSolutions will not be able to upgrade our backend systems until Easter at the earliest.
However we have tested the Panopto 5.0 Mac Recorder against Panopto 4.8 and have found that all features work except the “Record Keynote” feature.
The mac recorder is set up correctly (to record audio, primary screen and no keynote) when it looks like this:
Your keynote presentation will still record using the screen capture functionality. What will be missing is the automatic table of contents functionality.
You can tick “Record PowerPoint” as normal. For both Mac and Windows recorder we recommend always capturing the screen if using PowerPoint. We still recommend unticking Record Keynote if it is selected.
Panopto Mac Recorder now allows you to record the primary and secondary screen. If you are using presenter view on your primary screen and the presentation on the second screen (i.e. the projector) you can now choose to only record the secondary screen.
This page explains how to create a folder in Panopto for students to record presentations into. The student will need to log into Panopto to record the sessions. Sessions can be recorded as many times as necessary and can be edited.
For an assessment, students are required to give a group or individual presentation. There are too many students to record during teaching time, so you ask students to record a Panopto video before a deadline. You create a Panopto folder that allows all students on your associated Blackboard course to record or upload a video. Students use their computer or phone to record the presentation and upload it to Panopto. The student watches back their presentation and can choose to edit it or delete it and record again. When the deadline occurs, the tutor moves the recordings out of the student folders to ensure that students can no longer change their videos.
This scenario is preferred for
Please note: A provisioned Blackboard course is required to follow this guide.
This will create a new subfolder called “Your Course Name [Assignments]” that your students can record into.
You can look at the folder at any point. Notice in your Blackboard courses Panopto area, you can now see a new sub folder for the assignments. Clicking on this will allow you to view the videos that have been submitted.
Your students will be able to edit or delete their work in this folder. They can record into it using either the Panopto Recorders or by uploading a video file.
They can navigate to the assignment folder the same way as you, by going to the Blackboard course, then the Panopto page and clicking on the visible folder. Or alternatively going to Panopto directly and looking under ‘My Folders’.
If students get stuck they can always contact iSolutions for guidance.
Once your deadline has passed you can then close off the folder to students. Meaning students can no longer edit or upload content, but you can still play content.
When the folder has closed you will now see that the folder has a date stamp showing when it was closed down. The blue link will take you to the folder directly, but additionally you will always see the folder on the top bar of your Panopto area of your Panopto course.
You may wish to move the video files out of the assignments folder. Or you may wish to change the viewing or ‘Share’ permissions of the videos to allow students to see each others work.