Panopto for Education
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A Great Tool for Screen Capturing and Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Panopto makes it easy to capture screen recordings and share them amongst teammates, making collaboration simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
Our team hasn't had a single problem since we've started using Panopto.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Panopto to capture screen recordings that we share in team meetings for educational purposes to inform how we work going forward.
It's a cool platform but lacks in providing the best experience
What do you like best about the product?
Panopto is the leading video platform for businesses & universities. With Panopto, anyone can create and share professional on-demand videos securely.
What do you dislike about the product?
For individuals, Panopto Basic is available at no cost, and Panopto Pro requires a monthly subscription, plus a small fee for each storage hour beyond 50 hours.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Buffering and video doesn't play. Try accessing the video through your LMS or SSO page. If this doesn't work, reach out to the content owner or your local help desk for access
really nice for recording and transcribing easily
What do you like best about the product?
easy to share links with users, easy to take notes and live stream as well
What do you dislike about the product?
the interface is a bit outdated and not very appealing to younger tech savvy people
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
has helped me solve the issue of quickly set-up livestreams that are recorded and kept in a safe, sound location
Panopto is a great video platform for education
What do you like best about the product?
Its integration with other LTIs and tools such as Canvas and Zoom.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not always intuitive to use. Data extraction can be easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is providing course media content in an organized manner that is easy to manage.
Panopto Student User
What do you like best about the product?
As a student, it is helpful that questions are embedded into lectures as a check for understanding. While watching the lecture/video, it will not continue until you answer the questions provided by the professor! If you answer the question incorrectly, you can retake the questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a new user, it can be challenging to use Panopto. There is a learning curve; however, the platform is user-friendly. The program could improve if there is a way for students to see all embedded questions at the end of the video on the same screen. If this were possible, it would be easier to review all of the questions!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Panopto as a student in a virtual classroom. It has helped to recreate a dynamic and remote learning experience. When I use it, I am more productive because it keeps me engaged and on task with multiple checks for understanding embedded throughout the program.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it time to adjust to the program. The time it takes to adjust outweighs the time you will save in productivity long-term.
Best enterprise platform for video management in Higher Education
What do you like best about the product?
- New capabilities are being added, albeit they are addons to an existing Panopto license. These include AI-generated video with Elai, company video portal with Panopto Connect and Panopto Insights. It's a great portfolio of tools to choose from and keep everything under the same platform.
- The Panopto policies to manage archived and stored hours are fantastic.
- The Panopto policies to manage archived and stored hours are fantastic.
What do you dislike about the product?
- The permissions to edit a video are still managed at folder level, meaning you need to add someone as a Creator to be able to edit one video. If the folder also contains other videos, then they get editing access to all videos in the folder not just the one you need them to edit. This creates data management issues.
- Automatic captions still need work.
- Creators cannot delete archived videos without restoring them from the archive first, which takes 48h. Therefore they need a Panopto admin to intervene, which increases admin overhead.
- The interface is still slow. When you have hundreds of folders, the 'Browse' button on the left-hand sidebar takes ages to display the hierarchy.
- Still no ability to separate audio from the primary video for more granular video editing.
- Automatic captions still need work.
- Creators cannot delete archived videos without restoring them from the archive first, which takes 48h. Therefore they need a Panopto admin to intervene, which increases admin overhead.
- The interface is still slow. When you have hundreds of folders, the 'Browse' button on the left-hand sidebar takes ages to display the hierarchy.
- Still no ability to separate audio from the primary video for more granular video editing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Where I work, we use Zoom as a virtual classroom, and we need to store recordings permanently somewhere. Zoom storage is prohibitively expensive, so it sends the recording to Panopto automatically when the meeting has finished. There is no need for our Zoom hosts to download and upload recordings manually. Panopto will pick up Zoom's automatic transcription or generate each own and allow you to use that instead.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider it if you are looking for an affordable solution to store your Zoom recordings.
Lots to Handle, Lots to Like
What do you like best about the product?
I like a lot about Panopto! The video "session" builder is powerful, with a lot of options for video sources, slides, audio sources, all that good stuff. As we've learned over the past year-plus, faculty have a lot of wants and needs for video recording and sharing - ELMO cameras, slide shows, web cams, mobile phone videos, YouTube videos, etc. - and Panopto is the smoothest way I've seen to bundle everything together. A Panopto session is a good replication of the in-person experience of switching from lecturing to showing a video to writing on a board and back and forth.
The Panopto viewer also has a lot of great quality-of-life stuff that other tools lack; searchable transcripts/slide capture is the big one for us, but discussions, notes, switching between video feeds in the session are all cool features.
The editor is also in a good sweet spot; not too much club for newbie editors, but powerful enough that a more experienced faculty member can do what they need to do without opening a standalone editing software. Very cool that edits in the Panopto editor are nondestructive as well.
Finally, the integration with our LMS appears very smooth!
The Panopto viewer also has a lot of great quality-of-life stuff that other tools lack; searchable transcripts/slide capture is the big one for us, but discussions, notes, switching between video feeds in the session are all cool features.
The editor is also in a good sweet spot; not too much club for newbie editors, but powerful enough that a more experienced faculty member can do what they need to do without opening a standalone editing software. Very cool that edits in the Panopto editor are nondestructive as well.
Finally, the integration with our LMS appears very smooth!
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a lot to handle and a big adjustment if you're coming from another video recording/sharing platform. Some elements are unintuitive at first (mainly the Panopto "vocabulary" - session, etc.). The overall "look" of the viewer, site, etc. is fine but feels a little barebones, again, coming from other video platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our former video platform is sundowning, so we are filling the online video recording and sharing need with Panopto. Faculty use these platforms to post class videos, lecture capture, etc.
Effective Tool for Online & Remote Teaching
What do you like best about the product?
Currently, I teach introductory level college courses. So when our university went remote for the semester, I needed something to help me record my lectures. Panopto has allowed me to do that. Personally, I find the program rather easy to use. I have it downloaded onto my desktop, so when I am ready to record my lectures all I have to do is open the program. I also appreciate the ability to edit your content in the program, and that you don't have to export your recordings to a seperate application. This makes it easy for me to provide my students with a recorded lecture (since we are not meeting face to face). Panopto also allows you to outline your lectures students can easily navigate the content. So far, I've heard good feedback from them as well!
What do you dislike about the product?
The editor is a little clunky in my opinion, where it can be sometimes difficult to cut or trim your video. That being said, I just give myself a little extra time before a start my lecture and after I end it (to make cropping the video easier). Other than that, the only problem I've run into is thinking I've hit record when I have not. That is rather frustrating, but I would not put that error on Panopto. Just be sure to double check you hit record before you start speaking!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Panopto has allowed me to provide my students with lectures which is more interactive. Since COVID-19, it's been hard to interact with students the way you would in a classroom, especially while teaching remotely. Not all students can login to class synchronously, given that everyone lives in different timezones and areas. So this software lets me record my lectures to make them more accessible.
User and IT for panopto.
What do you like best about the product?
Students can watch videos multiple times and take notes within the program.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many panopto features are available within zoom, but I feel zoom is more user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With the corona virus, classes could not meet face to face. Panopto allowed users to obtain lectures and watch them at the speed they wished.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend using the notes feature to your advantage to take notes at specific times in a video.
Great App to Manage and Share Video Content within a Professional Environment
What do you like best about the product?
Panopto provides great features for sharing and controlling access to video content. I can produce a video and have very tight control over who can view it and what they can do with it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Videos must currently be uploaded via the Web portal. Being able to perform this action from the desktop client would be nice since we've mass deployed it within our environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Panopto allows our organization to effectively reach our students and provide access to lecture recordings and other curriculum materials remotely. It has allowed us to become a virtual organization and continue our learning objectives while navigating a global pandemic.
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