Introduction to Panopto

Panopto is the University of Pittsburgh’s secure video recording, hosting and streaming platform. You can use Panopto to:

• Record your lectures, with or without PowerPoint slides
• Create a demonstration of a technique or skill
• Upload videos you already have in a digital format
• Embed quiz questions into your videos
• Archive and share your recorded Zoom meetings
• Manage your video files so that they are only seen by the people that you enable

Panopto is integrated closely with Canvas, but can also be used stand-alone. Panopto also plays an integral role in managing your Zoom recordings as well. You control the share settings on your videos in Panopto, so they can be viewed only by the people within or outside of Pitt that you designate. The Canvas integration automates these share settings so that when a video is presented in a Canvas course, the share settings are automatically updated to give all currently-enrolled students of that course viewer access, and all enrolled teachers and TAs creator access.

Resources to help you use Panopto

• Using the Panopto Focus Recorder: This article will review how to install and use the free video recording application that you can use to make your videos in Panopto.
• Using My Pitt Video and Panopto Folder Settings: This article will go over the website that serves as the cloud storage and streaming platform for all Panopto videos online.
• Video Settings: This article will review how to reorganize videos within your My Pitt Video folders, enable videos to be downloaded, as well as allow individual videos to be made more public or private depending on your specific needs.
• Using Panopto with Canvas: This article will go over how to create a folder in My Pitt Video for each of your courses in Canvas, allowing for easy sharing of videos in your courses, and dynamically updates video share settings based on Canvas course enrollments.
• Include Videos in Your Canvas Course: This article will touch on the many ways to integrate Panopto and other video content in your Canvas course material.
• Zoom Meetings Stored in Panopto: This article focuses on how to recording Zoom meetings to the cloud to automatically create a Panopto recording on the My Pitt Video website.
• Editing in Panopto: This article will help you use the rudimentary editing tool built into My Pitt Video that allows you to trim your videos, add closed captions, quizzes and more.
• Adding Captions to Panopto: This article will outline how to caption your videos in Panopto. Videos you produce for your classes should be captioned to ensure accessibility in your course.
• Setting up video and audio hardware for use with Panopto: This article will tell you how to optimize your audio, video and computer hardware for recording in Panopto.

If you’d like to follow an ordered series of tutorials to learn all the fundamentals of Panopto, we invite you to enroll in Teaching with Panopto, our self-paced online course.