Panopto Media Server
Regardless of where you’ve edited your masterpiece, Panopto can be a great place to store, share and stream your video from. Because Panopto is a dedicated media streaming server and uses an interactive HTML5 video player, videos that are uploaded here are processed for various quality settings. When a user accesses your video, whether it’s on a web page or in a Canvas course, the media server detects the users connection speed and provides them with a suitable quality version to best suit there bandwidth. The HTML5 video player has many other advanced interactive features including Inside Video Search, Variable Speed Playback, In-Video Navigation, Taking Notes in the Player, Rate and Share Options and Configurable Captions. The HTML5 play also ensures your audience can view your video on any device.
Video Analytics and Reporting also allow you to get detailed reports on audience engagement and comprehensive insights into viewing behaviour for every video on your Panopto portal.
Website Embed
Whether your media was designed for curriculum or communications it’s a good idea to have a distribution plan to ensure your creative content is getting seen. If you’re developing media for communications or marketing its a good idea to work with Central Communications to ensure you’re following USask guidelines for websites, social media PAWS Channels and general visual standards. Panopto is a great tool for hosting your media files and providing you the embed codes you need to embed your media into existing web pages.
Step One: Upload video to Panopto
Step Two: Embed Video in Web Page
Embedding in Canvas
If your media was developed for teaching and learning purposes then it’s likely that you’re wanting to incorporate your videos into an online course along side your other learning materials. In this case Canvas and Panopto will work together to ensure students have the access they need and that Banner automatically sets permissions correctly each term.
Proper course provisioning for your Panopto videos is important for several reasons. When copying content into a new Course Build for subsequent terms, for example, you’ll ensure that the videos you want to keep move over properly and that your students can access them without issue. Here are a couple IT Training articles to ensure that the transition to Summer or Fall course builds goes smoothly for your Panopto videos.
Step One: Upload video to Panopto
Step Two: Enable Panopto in Canvas
Step Three: Embed Video Using the Canvas Editor
See the Panopto page on the Learning Technologies Ecosystem web page for more information and support.
