Panopto/My Pitt Video

Pitt’s enterprise video creation, hosting and streaming service is integrated fully with Canvas.

• Longer videos that may require screen capturing (i.e. narrating along with a PowerPoint), captions or light editing.

• More complicated to use.
• Requires instructors set-up a Panopto Assignment Folder first in order to grant students limited creator privileges.

• How to use the Panopto Canvas integration [for instructors]
• How to set up a Panopto Assignment Folder [for instructors]
• How to create a Panopto video [for students]

Canvas Video Tool

Canvas itself has a rudimentary video creation tool accessible from many course areas.

• Shorter, more informal videos that do not require screenshare or editing.
• Single-step Canvas assignment submission.
• Access to tool appears anywhere students have a rich content editor text box (i.e., Discussion Boards, essay type quiz questions)

• No editor or screenshare available–what you see is what you get.

• How to use the Canvas video tool found in the rich content editor [for students]
• How to submit a media file as an assignment submission [for students]

• When students must remotely collaborate to produce a presentation video together.

• Zoom is not made with video-creation as its primary use case. Quality can be poor, and editing can only be done once the video has been transferred to Panopto.

• Locating recorded Zoom sessions after they’re finished.

• Many students already have video capture applications on their own devices. It may be appropriate to have students simply use whatever they are comfortable with and then upload the resulting video to complete the assignment (see below).

• Keeping submitted videos in a single repository and easily allowing all students to view one another’s videos.
• “One Stop Shop”–once the video is created by the student, it’s already located in its final destination.

• If you want to assign a grade in Canvas, you must create a Canvas Assignment (“On Paper” submission type would work best) in order for there to be a grading column available in the gradebook.

• How to set up a Panopto Assignment Folder [for instructors]
• How to create a Canvas Assignment [for instructors]

• Allowing students several options for video creation (including the Canvas assignment tool or uploading a video created using their own choice of tool).
• Assignments where only the instructor will be viewing the videos.
• Using Canvas’s grading tools and gradebook.
• Upon submission students will be given the choice to either upload or record a video. Any video from any source may be uploaded.

• No editor or screenshare available when using Canvas’s video creation tool–what you see is what you get.

• How to create a Canvas Assignment [for instructors]
• How to submit to a Media Recording Assignment [for students]

• Allowing students to view and give feedback on one another’s videos.
• Using Canvas’s grading tools and gradebook.
• Students will be given the choice to either upload or record a video. Any video from any source may be uploaded.

• No editor or screenshare available when using Canvas’s video creation tool–what you see is what you get.

• Creating a discussion board [for instructors]
• Replying to a discussion board [for students]
• How to use the Canvas video tool [for students]