Panopto Lecture Recordings and your Blackboard Course

Recording a Panopto Session

 Once you have signed in to Panopto, you will be able to see your name at the upper right. To view your Panopto Folders, click on Mary Baldwin University at the upper left.

When you are in Panopto, choose which Folder (Blackboard Course) where you want your recording to be stored, and click on Create and then Record a New Session

If this is your first time recording with Panopto, you will need to download the Panopto Recorder.

After downloading, open your Downloads and Run the panopto.exe file to install the Panopto Recorder application on your computer.  Install according to the defaults. Then reboot your computer.

You can launch the Recorder from this page.  You can also launch the recorder from the Start Menu, by clicking on Start and Panopto Recorder.

After you have launched the Panopto Recorder, check that the audio and video inputs are correct, and enable any secondary capture sources that are required (for example, Screen 2 and/or the Doc Cam in the classrooms, or one of the video cameras in the labs). You can choose whether or not to show the video of yourself, but you must have audio selected. The Standard quality setting is fine.

The session name defaults to the date and time, but PLEASE take this opportunity to name the session according to its contents, i.e., Bones of the Wrist, or Causes of the French Revolution, so you and your students can find the correct video later.

Choose a folder in which to place this video.

If you are capturing a PowerPoint presentation, click on the PowerPoint tab and Open a Presentation and browse to find your slideshow. Note! If you record a .pps, then the Search functionality within Panopto may not pick up the content of your slides. For the best result, open the .ppt version of your slides. You can choose to start the recording when you start your slideshow, or you can Click on Record and start your slideshow while the recording is running.

To annotate slides (for example, drawing an arrow to a blood vessel, or circling an important item of text, use your desktop or handheld mouse as a marker.  At the bottom left of your Powerpoint slide, there are faint Slideshow Control Icons.  Click on the Pen icon and choose Pen to change your cursor into a Pen.  When you click on the mouse or trackball and move it, you can annotate the slide.  To progress to the next slide, move the cursor to the arrow icon and click on the right arrow to advance, or the left arrow to go back one slide.

When you are recording in Panopto, the annotations will only show up when the student chooses to view via Screen View.  Documentation for your students on how best to view your dual slideshow videos is here.

To return to Panopto and stop the recording session, press Alt-Tab to find the that window. When you are finished recording your session, click on Stop.

Uploading your Panopto Video

Webcasting:

If you want your students to be able to annotate your live lecture while it is being recorded, then before you click on Record, click the Webcast and Record box in the upper right of your screen:

In order to annotate your  live lecture, your students will log in to the course via Blackboard and click on the Lecture that is “Recording right now” in your Course Folder.

Linking to a single Panopto lecture from within Blackboard:

Note:  Linking to single lectures from Blackboard will not prevent the students from seeing the other lectures in the course folder.  To hide a lecture until you are ready to release it, follow the instructions here:

To put a link in your Blackboard course which points to a single recorded session,  go to the Content Area where you wish to put the link. Click on Tools and Panopto Video Link.

When the Panopto link comes up, choose the Folder with your Course Name on it and the appropriate lecture, type in a Description if needed and click on Submit.  The link will look like this to your students:

You and your students may need to install the Microsoft Silverlight application in order to view Panopto videos:

http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/ 

Re-using Panopto Lectures from a previous semester

f you will be reusing Panopto lectures in your online courses (for example, if you are teaching content that doesn’t change from year to year in REL101: OLD TESTAMENT), the easiest and tidiest way to store and reuse your lectures is to create a Folder in Panopto under My Folders called REL101 (with no term and year appended).

Copying a single Panopto lecture from one course to another

If you don’t want to provision the new course with all the previous course lectures, follow these instructions to copy a single lecture from one course to another:

• Find the lecture you want to copy.
• Click on Settings, Manage and Copy.
• Move the copy to the folder associated with the new course 
• Rename the copy.

Hiding your videos until you are ready to release them:

The Adaptive Release function in Blackboard will not prevent your students from having access to the videos that are in your course folder in Panopto.  If you wish to release your videos to your students as the semester progresses, rather than just letting your students view all the videos as they please, you will need to create a  subfolder in for your course in Panopto, and store the videos there until you are ready to release them. To do this, right click on the Course Name and choose Create Subfolder.  Name your subfolder something meaningful like CourseID_Hidden to remind you that the videos in this folder will not be able to be seen by your students.

You can record directly into the Hidden Folder.  To move a video from the Hidden Folder to the Course Folder, select the video you want to move,  right click and choose Settings.  When the settings page displays, click on the Edit link next to Folder and choose the destination folder from the drop down box.

When you are ready to allow your students to view this video, you will move it out of the Hidden Folder and into the Parent Course Folder, using the same Edit Folder facility.

Editing your Panopto Video

In order to Edit your Panopto video, navigate to http://marybaldwincollege.hosted.panopto.com/ and Sign in with Blackboard.  From your Folder, hover over the name of the video you wish to edit and click on Edit.

When you get to the Edit Screen, you can play the video from the pane in the upper left corner.  You can view the timeline of the audio from the lower right.

To view the timeline in more detail, click on the + Magnifying Glass icon.

To edit out bits of the video,  click on the scissors that are above the timeline.

Move the black line to the beginning of the content you want to hide.  Click.  Then move the black line to the end of the content you want to hide.  Click.  This will create a dark “window shade” over the content that will not be played.

This content will not be removed from Panopto, it will just not be played. You can make the shade shorter or longer in each direction by clicking on the little yellow tabs and dragging them.  To check you have edited out the correct section, play the video again from the controls on the upper left.

After you have completed making your edits, click on the Save button at the upper right. You can make different recordings (with different edits) from the same original material and using Save As instead.

More information from Panopto about advanced editing is here:

Recording into a Panopto Folder outside your Blackboard course

From https://marybaldwin.hosted.panopto.com/, you can create your own personal folders. Click on Create and then New Folder.

Name the folder, make the Parent folder your “My Folder” and click on Create Folder.

To allow only specific students or users to view this folder, chose “Specific people” under Who has access. Then you can invite specific people. “Viewers” are students and “Creators” are TAs and Instructors.  Make sure you click on Save Changes.

Moving your Panopto Video to another folder:

To move your Panopto video from one folder to another, log into https://marybaldwin.hosted.panopto.com/ with your Blackboard credentials. Find the folder of the course you want to move your video FROM. Click on Settings and then where it says Folder, click on Edit.

Click on the dropdown arrow next to the folder name, choose the folder you want to copy TO and click on Save.

Showing and Recording a Laser-like Pointer or Highlighter

If you are recording the Slideshow and want to user your cursor as a pointer, and make sure your students can see it on the recording, as well as in the classroom, you will need to Capture Primary Screen as well as Capturing the Powerpoint.

Start the slideshow and right click to choose Pointer Options and Highlighter.  Then right click again and choose Pointer Options and Ink Color and choose a color that will show up well against your slides.

Now your cursor will be larger and more colorful, and you can also draw arrows  with it.  When your slideshow finishes, and you are asked if you want to keep your ink annotations, be sure to choose DISCARD, or those arrows will be saved on your slides.

To start Panopto recording after you have the two slideshows on the correct screens, press F8. To pause or resume recording, press F9.

Recording a Panopto Lecture that isn’t in a Blackboard Course

1) Follow the instructions here to log into Panopto: https://go.marybaldwin.edu/oit/add-panopto-blackboard-course/#Recording

2) Before clicking on the Create and Record a New Session icon, click on Create and Folder.  Name the folder something like ED606Hidden, so you will know that it is holding your ED606 lectures but these ones are hidden from students.

3) Continue with the recording instructions in 1) but make sure you are storing the recording in the Hidden folder.

4) When you are ready to “share” this recording,  make sure your Blackboard course has been configured for Panopto, by following the instructions here:  https://go.marybaldwin.edu/oit/add-panopto-blackboard-course/#Linking.

Then move your lecture from the Hidden folder into the regular Blackboard course folder which you are provisioning in your course as described here: https://go.marybaldwin.edu/oit/add-panopto-blackboard-course/#Hide

Make old lectures available for Audio Podcast and RSS Feeds

1) Log into Mary Baldwin’s Panopto Site

2) Navigate to your folders by clicking the Folders in the left-hand column (a) or See All Folder: Go to a specific folder(b)
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3) Select the folder with the lectures you wish to make available for Audio Podcast and RSS Feeds.

4) Point to the Lecture and select the Settings button

5) Select Manage from the left menu list.  Under Processing management, click Re-encode podcasts
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7) Click OK on the Message Box.

 ***During the re-encoding mobile and embedded viewing will be unavailable until encoding is finished.  Time varies depending on the length of the lecture.***

8) Close the Settings Box

9) You can view the progress of the re-encoding by looking at the lecture in the folder list view.  Once processing is complete, students will be able to download the audio podcast for your lecture.

10) To make sure the re-encoding created the Audio Podcast, go to Settings > Outputs > Audio Podcast at the bottom.  There is now options to play, download, or subscribe to the podcast.

Downloading a Course Lecture

1. Log in to the site the Mary Baldwin Panopto site.
2. Open the Course Folder
3. Click the Settings link for the Lecture you would like to download.
   
4. In the Settings window click Outputs
   There are 2 types of Outputs you can download:

SILVERLIGHT PLUGIN (NPAPI PLUGINS) IN CHROME

Google Chrome has officially stopped supporting Silverlight and all NPAPI plugins as of version 45.0.2454.85. See release notes here.

The only feature this will effect is Panopto’s standard editor. All other features will work via Google Chrome.

To access content that relies on Silverlight, please use one of the below browsers:

• Internet Explorer 8+
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari

Additionally, Microsoft’s Edge browser does not support Silverlight.

Panopto’s notes on using with Chrome and Silverlight.