Estimated total time: 34-44 minutes
Video Editing (10 minutes)
Panopto lets you make simple edits to remove material.
- Play: Edits & Captions in Panopto (7-minute Humber video)
- You’ll learn how to: use the timeline and soundwaves to see where to edit; trim videos; import automatic captions; correct errors to automatic captions.
- Read: How to Edit a Video (4-step Panopto article)
- This provides screenshots showing how to trim videos.
Smart Chapters & Table of Contents (3 minutes)
Panopto will automatically scan your completed video to create an interactive table of contents (also called “Smart Chapters”). This allows viewers to navigate directly to the exact section of the video that they would like to view, allowing them to find specific content quickly. It also allows the viewer to choose to play content in a different order than presented.
- Play: How to Use Smart Chapters (3-minute Panopto video)
- You’ll learn how to add the auto-generated smart chapters into your video, and you will learn how to add, edit and delete existing chapters to make your table of contents more accurate.
Quizzes (11 minutes)
Panopto supports in-video quizzing — an easy way to engage your learners and improve content retention!
After creating a video, adding a quiz is easy. Follow the instructions below to add a quiz to your Panopto video.
- Play: Learn How to Use the Panopto Quiz tool (8-minute Panopto video)
- You’ll learn how to add a quiz directly into a Panopto video.
- When you are ready to add your Panopto video with a quiz to your course on Blackboard, follow the instructions below:
Notes (3 minutes)
Panopto allows students and instructors to leave private, time stamped notes on the video, which only they can see.
Variable Speed Control (1 minute)
Panopto’s video player also contains variable speed controls so viewers can choose speed up the video, or alternatively, slow it down, to better suit their learning.
To adjust the speed, click the button that says “1x” at the bottom right of the video player, and select whichever speed you desire.
Video Search (3 minutes)
Panopto allows users to search the contents of each video with text. This allows users to type in certain phrases and Panopto will show them all the instances where that phrase was spoken or on screen.
Discussions & Notifications (6 to 10 minutes)
Foster active learning and engagement by embedding discussions within your video. You’ll automatically get daily discussion notifications, which you can turn off or change the frequency.