Panopto Lecture Capture User Guide Shivaji Samanta March 15, 2012
This guide was generated from various documents available at the Panopto Support web site. Please visit http://panoptosupport.com/documentation/ for more documentation, video recordings and support information.
PANOPTO @ PVCC Table of Contents PANOPTO Basic Recording... 1 How-To Video: Click Here... 1 Installation & Setup... 1 Logging In... 1 Adding Folders and New Sessions... 3 Choosing Recording Devices... 6 Audio... 6 Video... 7 PowerPoint... 8 Screen Capture... 10 Pause a Recording... 11 End A Recording... 13 Manage Uploaded Recordings... 13 Move Recording to another folder... 14 Copy a Recording to another folder... 16 PANOPTO Advanced Recording... 18 Installation & Setup... 18 Presenting Overview... 18 Presenting PowerPoint via Panopto Recorder... 18 Creating New Folders... 20 Creating New Sessions... 21 Recording Slides / Screen capture to a Session... 22 Screen Capture... 25 Recording Video and Audio to a Session... 26 Selecting Input Devices... 28 Start a Recording... 30 Ending a Recording... 30 PANOPTO Editor: Lesson One... 31 How to cut the beginning, end and middle out of a recording... 31 PANOPTO Editor : Lesson Two... 35 How to navigate/seek in the recording... 35 How to Insert a new thumbnail... 35 How to edit a thumbnail/event... 36 How to modify the start time of a stream... 37 Shivaji Samanta March 15, 2012
Managing Versions (new in 4.0)... 39 Insert / Edit Captions (new in 4.0)... 42 Everything Else... 43 Advanced Editing - Splicing & Remixing... 45 To add a recording to the beginning of another one:... 45 To add a recording to the end of another one:... 47 To add a recording to the middle of another one:... 50 Live Broadcasts... 54 How to Broadcast:... 54 Record, Pause and Stop... 54 Viewing... 54 New pause, rewind and go live feature... 55 Import Recordings From Panopto Into Blackboard... 58 Using the Panopto Building Block... 58 Automated Course Recording Import to Course Tools... 58 Manual Course Recording Import to Course Documents... 62 ii
PANOPTO Basic Recording The Panopto Recorder allows a lot of flexibility in how and what you can record. A presenter may wish to record alone (with one computer) or with a videographer using a separate computer. This section will cover all aspects of recording with one computer. In this recording scenario, all presentation content (PowerPoint and/or screen capture) and video/audio is recorded from one computer. How-To Video: Click Here Installation & Setup The Panopto Recorder is very small and very easy to install. It can only be installed on computers using Windows XP, Vista, or 7 (32 and 64 bit), or on Mac computers running MacOS 10.5 and later versions. Your computer should also have a large amount of free drive space to capture your video/recording. You can find the complete installation instructions here: Recorder Install. Alternatively, you could go http://pvcc.hosted.panopto.com and click on the Download Recorder link. Logging In Creators are able to log in to the Recorder with their credentials and record video, audio, PowerPoint presentations and also add Screen Capture functionality. The first step in presenting from the Panopto Recorder is to open the application on your computer. Start --> Programs --> Panopto --> Panopto Recorder Shivaji Samanta March 15, 2012
Once you've entered your Panopto Server Address (pvcc.hosted.panopto.com), Login, and Password, click the Log In button. You may also choose to save your information by selecting the "Remember Me" box. If your course has already been provisioned in Blackboard, you need to clink on the button with the label Log in with Blackboard-Production using your Blackboard id and password. If you typed in the correct login id and password you should get a screen like this: - 2 -
If you used the Use External Login Provider button on the login screen, the drop-down arrow will show all the course folders for which you are set up as a Creator. Adding Folders and New Sessions By default, the Recorder will open up to the last known good configuration of recording devices as you can see in the screen-shot above, and if you have recorded content before, the same devices will automatically be chosen. In the example shown below, we have not recorded content before so we will start off with an Offline Recording. - 3 -
To complete an Online Recording, click the down arrow as highlighted in red below. Click on "Add a New Folder" Type in Folder Name. Adding description is optional. - 4 -
Now that the Folder has been created, you may create a new Session. To do this, click on "Add New Session" to the right of the Folder name. The Recorder will allow you to immediately select recording devices and start recording. - 5 -
The date and time are entered as the Session Name by default. You may change the text of the Session name if preferred. Choosing Recording Devices After you have created a new Session to record to, you may choose the devices that you wish to record with. These devices include cameras, audio inputs, screen capture, and PowerPoint. To select the device you wish to use in your recording, simply choose the device from the drop down boxes. To re-select it, change the option in the drop down box to None. **Note: Audio and/or Video is required for all recordings. If recording from two separate computers, the Recorder will allow you to record with no audio or video selected, however, the session will not process until the other computer uploads the audio and/or video to the system. You will receive a pop up error message if no audio/video is selected when recording. Please see Advanced Recording for instructions on recording from two separate computers. Audio Most recording scenarios will require that you select an audio device. Several audio devices may be displayed if you have multiple audio inputs. If you are using a DV camera or capture card you may also see those audio devices listed. - 6 -
Using the drop down box next to Audio: simply choose the audio device you wish to record from. After you have chosen the device you would like to use, you can test it by using the Audio Level Meter. The meter should rise and fall as you speak to indicate the volume of your recording. You may only use one audio source at a time. Video You may wish to add video to your recording. The first video source you select will become your main video during playback. If you add additional video sources, for example to record a chalkboard, they will be viewable in tabs that will be added to your presentation. Additional video recordings are not played back in full motion to save bandwidth for the viewer. You may add as many video sources as you like within the limits of your computers processing power. - 7 -
PowerPoint You can include PowerPoint presentations in your recording. To do this, choose the "Capture PowerPoint" source in the left-hand column and it will add a tab to the right-hand window for your PowerPoint file. This box will allow you to open a PowerPoint (.ppt or.pptx) file or, if PowerPoint is already running, allow you to include the presentation that is open. You can open up a presentation at any time during your recording, or open several presentations before start. Your slide changes will not be recorded until you put PowerPoint into Presentation Mode. - 8 -
Click on "Open a Presentation" to browse for the PowerPoint file that you wish to present. PowerPoint will automatically open and a thumbnail of the first slide will be present in the right-hand window. - 9 -
Screen Capture PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) If you wish to capture what is being displayed on your computer screen, you will need to select "Capture Screen" in the left-hand panel. This will allow you to capture everything being displayed on your screen to be played back with the final video. Do remember to minimize the recorder window if you wish to do a screen capture so it does not cover up required content on the screen. You can ensure this by clicking on the Settings tab of the recorder and checking the appropriate check box so it minimizes when recording. - 10 -
Start A Recording Remember you can choose any combination of devices you need for your recording. Once you are satisfied with the devices you will be using, click on "Record" to begin the recording process. Note: The current version of the software has hot keys for controlling the recorder. Use F8 to start recording, F9 to turn pause on/off and F10 to stop a recording. Pause a Recording The Pause button (or F9 key) allows you to stop recording during a presentation to skip portions that you don't want to be shown in the final cut that your viewers will see. This same task can be achieved via the Panopto Editor post production but the Pause button allows you to do this while recording so it can be made available for your viewers without having to edit out content after recording. This will be helpful if you have some dead air time at the beginning, middle, or end of a recording. If you take a break during a recording, simply press Pause when break starts and click Pause again after the break is over to continue recording. As a backup, we continue recording all content while the Pause button is selected but it will not show up to your viewers. This is helpful in case you forget to un-pause a recording. - 11 -
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End A Recording PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) Once you have completed your session, click on the "End Recording" button (or F10 key). You will then be taken automatically to the "Recording Status" tab. If your recorder is set to automatically upload recordings you will be able to watch the progress as your recording is uploaded (the green bar) and verified (the orange bar) on the Panopto server. If your recorder is not set to automatically upload completed recordings you will be given the option to start or resume the upload of the recording. If you installed the background upload service, you can close the recorder and allow the data to be transferred. Manage Uploaded Recordings The Recording Status tab will show you several things. First, if there are recordings that are currently uploading, they will appear at the top of the page (see below). Second, the Status/Link column show if the recording either the current status (processing, encoding,..etc.) or the viewable link once it's available. You may now choose to delete the original source files from your recording computer. Next to each recording is a button titled "Delete from Disk" that will delete all recording information from the recording computer. To save space on the computer, you should delete the recordings after you confirm that your recording has uploaded properly. - 13 -
Move Recording to another folder PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) It is best practice to upload your recording to a holding folder, generally the root folder for your account. Once you have verified that the recording is plays back correctly and if required, have edited it for content, you should move it to the appropriate folder so your students can view it using the login ID and password you have provided them, generally using a Blackboard announcement for the course. Here is the procedure for moving the recording to the appropriate folder: 1. If you are in the Panopto recorder, click on the Recording Tab and then click on the Manage my recordings link. Alternatively you can login directly to http://pvcc.hosted.panopto.com 2. Position your mouse cursor over the recording you want to move, and go to the Actions column on the extreme right, and click on the Settings icon ( ). - 14 -
3. The Session Settings window opens up, click on the Edit button next to the folder name 4. Click on the downward pointing arrow next to the folder name to get the drop-down list of folders. 5. From the drop-down list of folders click on the one you want to move the recording to, and then click on the Save button and you are done. 6. Now all you need to do is to post the user id and password created for the course along with a link to the Panopto web site http://pvcc.hosted.panopto.com in your Blackboard course documentation area and all your students will be able to view all the recorded content for the course in one area. There is no need for you to post individual links to the recordings. - 15 -
Copy a Recording to another folder PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) There might be instances when you are teaching multiple sections of a course and would like all the students to view the lectures recorded in one classroom. For instance, one or more of the classes may meet in rooms where we do not currently have the lecture capture equipment installed, or you may have an online class that could benefit from some or all of your recorded lectures from other classes. Here are the steps involved in copying a recording to another folder: 1. Provision the class in Blackboard to create a destination folder for the recordings. This would assign the enrolled students appropriate access to the folder. 2. If you are in the Panopto recorder, click on the Recording Tab and then click on the Manage my recordings link. Alternatively you can go to http://pvcc.hosted.panopto.com and login there using your Blackboard account and password. 3. Switch to the folder containing your original recording 4. Create a copy of the recording as follows: a) Select recording and click on Settings b) Go to the Manage tab and click on Copy button - 16 -
c) When the copy operation completes, you will see the second recording in your folder (you may have to refresh the screen to see it). As you can below, see the copied lecture is still encoding its podcast. 5. Now you just use the steps indicated in the earlier section to move the copy of the recording to the destination folder. - 17 -
PANOPTO Advanced Recording PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) How-To Video: Click Here Installation & Setup The Panopto Recorder is very small and very easy to install. It should only be installed on computers using Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7. Your computer should also have a large amount of free drive space to capture your video/recording. You can find the complete installation instructions here: Recorder Install Presenting Overview The general look and feel of the Panopto Recorder layout has been modified to help simplify the recording process. The layout is similar to the Panopto Viewer window with the primary source in the upper left-hand corner of the screen and the secondary source on the right-hand side. This will help presenters determine which sources they would like to choose and how the presentation will look after the recording is complete. Presentations can be recorded from just one computer or from several computers. In this Advanced Recording section, we will review the process of recording material from more than one computer. We will explain the steps for recording PowerPoint and/or Screen Capture from one computer and Video and/or Audio from another. The Presenter should follow this set of instructions to ensure that their presentations can be captured by the Panopto system. Presenting PowerPoint via Panopto Recorder Logging In Users are able to log in to the Panopto Recorder and begin using the system online immediately. If the system will be used to record content Offline, make sure to check the "Remember Me" check box so your login is saved. If the "Remember Me" option is not available, your local Panopto Administrator has removed that option for security reasons. The Panopto Recorder can either be opened by double clicking on the desktop shortcut icon, or by going to Start -- All Programs -- Panopto -- Panopto Recorder When the Recorder opens, the Panopto server name should automatically be entered for you. If not, please contact your local Panopto Administrator for the server name. Type in the Username and Password that has been provided to you by your Panopto Administrator. - 18 -
Once you've entered your Panopto Server name, Login, and Password, click on Log In. Panopto Recorder v3.0 The Panopto Recorder will open and allow you to begin recording content such as audio, video, PowerPoint slides, and screen capture. If you already have a Folder created, you may wish to start recording to that Folder immediately. To find your Folder, click the down arrow on the right-hand side of the Panopto Recorder. - 19 -
Creating New Folders If no Folders have been created, you will see the screen below. If your Folder has already been created, please skip below to creating a new Session. Click on "Add a New Folder" and type in Folder Name and an Identifier. Click Add when finished. - 20 -
The Folder Name is the long name of the series, like "Introduction to Business 101". The Identifier is the short name, like "Bus101". Folder naming can be done anyway that you wish to organize your Folders within Panopto. Creating New Sessions Once you have chosen the Folder that you wish to record content to, the next step is to create the specific Session within that Folder. To create a new Session, click on "Add New Session" on the right-hand side of the Folder name. You will be taken back to the recording screen and the date and time will automatically be used to name the new Session. If you would like to change the name of the Session, you may do so now, by simply editing the text in the Session name field. If you would like to change the name of a Session after recording, you may do so through the Web User Interface. - 21 -
Recording Slides / Screen capture to a Session Now that your Session has been created and named, you may now select the type of presentation that you'd like to complete. Reminder: This advanced recording scenario is split across two computers. One computer handles the presentation content (PowerPoint and/or Screen Capture) and another computer captures the audio/video. PowerPoint Slides To present a PowerPoint presentation file, click on the PowerPoint check box under "Other Capture Sources". Now click the "Open a Presentation" button and browse for and open your PowerPoint file. - 22 -
The Panopto Recorder will open PowerPoint with your presentation. You may also have the PowerPoint file open already when choosing "Capture PowerPoint" and the software will detect the opened presentation automatically. You will receive a message after choosing your PowerPoint file that asks if you would like to begin recording after PowerPoint opens. This allows you to begin recording immediately by clicking "Yes" without having to return to the Panopto Recorder to click the Record button. If you click "No" at the "Begin Recording?" window, you must return to the Panopto Recorder and click on "Record" to begin recording the PowerPoint slide transitions. - 23 -
As seen above, the Recorder has a message that says, "PowerPoint is open but is not currently presenting." PowerPoint must be in Full Screen or Presentation Mode for the slides to be captured. Once the presentation is made full screened by pressing F5 or click "Start Slide Show" that message will go away. If Help Messages are enabled within the Panopto Recorder, you will receive the message prompt below. This helps ensure that the presenter understand that they are recording PowerPoint or Screen Capture only with no audio or video selected. Click OK to continue and begin recording. - 24 -
While presenting, the Panopto Recorder will record all slide transitions along with time stamps of each transition. This will synchronize the audio, video, and PowerPoint slides when viewed. The software will also extrapolate the slide text and make that text searchable in the Panopto Viewer. Screen Capture To record a presentation while capturing the contents of your computer screen, click on the "Capture Screen" check box under "Other Capture Sources". Screen Capture will appear in the right-hand window as an active device and will immediately start showing you a preview of what the Recorder will be capturing. To start recording, click "Record". - 25 -
If Help Messages are enabled within the Panopto Recorder, you will receive the message prompt below. This helps ensure that the presenter understand that they are recording Screen Capture or PowerPoint only with no audio or video selected. Click OK to continue and begin recording. Recording Video and Audio to a Session This recording scenario assumes that the presentation content is being captured on another computer. In a two computer recording scenario, the PowerPoint and/or Screen Capture is being recorded - 26 -
from one computer and the audio and/or video can be captured from a separate computer. If the same Session is chosen, the two separate recordings will be combined and synchronized on the Panopto Server and the recording will look as if it were all recorded from one physical computer. This section will review the options for recording audio only or audio + video. Presentations will not process through the Panopto system unless they have at least audio or video recorded to that same session. This process can be done with both Windows and Mac computers (both of the same or a mixture of the two). If you will be recording audio/video in this dual computer scenario, you'll want to choose the same Session as the presenter has. To do this, click on the down arrow on the right-hand side of the Panopto Recorder. In this window, you can create a new session if one has not been created already, or you may select a Session that has already been started. The person capturing PowerPoint/Screen Capture and the person capturing audio/video will need to ensure that they are choosing the same Session. Naming the Session with the same name will not accomplish this. One person will need to create a Session first and the other must choose it from this window. In this example above, the Session named "Friday, May 1, 2009 at 3:15:29 PM" has already been created by the presenter capturing PowerPoint and Screen Capture. We will choose this same session and begin choosing our devices to record with. - 27 -
Selecting Input Devices PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) To choose your video device, use the Video drop down box under Primary Source. In this example, you can see that a Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 web camera is attached to the system. Panopto will detect a wide range of web cameras, DV cameras, as well as video capture cards and devices. If your device does not show up in the Panopto Recorder, please make sure that you have the latest drivers available from the device manufacturer and ensure that all cables and power are connected to the device. To choose the video camera, simply click the name and a preview window of what the camera can see will open. - 28 -
To choose your audio device, use the Audio drop down box under Primary Source. In this example, you can see that we have the option of choosing one of two different audio devices. We can choose the integrated microphone (SoundMAX Integrated) or we can choose the LifeCam microphone. To choose the video camera, simply click the name of the device you would like to use. An audio volume meter will appear and will show you the recording audio level of the camera. - 29 -
If the audio meter does not show any audio input at all, you'll want to ensure that the microphone is not muted and that the recording levels within Windows are turned up. Start a Recording Now that your audio and video devices have been chosen, you may begin recording at any time. The final presentation will be synchronized by the audio/video start time. The Presenter recording PowerPoint/Screen capture may also start recording when they are ready. To start recording, simply click 'Record'. Ending a Recording To end the click on the 'Stop' button. - 30 -
PANOPTO Editor: Lesson One PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) How to cut the beginning, end and middle out of a recording The new Panopto editor allows for web based editing from any Mac or Windows computer. Silverlight is required for editing. The Panopto Editor lets you create multiple versions, called "edits", of recorded sessions. The edit called default is created automatically, and contains the entire recording. You can modify default or create additional edits without affecting the original session content. Editing is a nondestructive process. Any undesired changes can easily be reverted. 1. Log in and click the edit icon 2. To make changes to the default edit, click modify Create New makes a new edit. This is useful for splitting up longer recordings into different URL's. Create Copy will make a copy of an already edited session (all edits will be retained in the copy). 3. By default, the entire recording is an already selected segment. This is a change in behavior from the older version of the editor. Previously, segments had to be added by the user. **A segment is the selected portion of video that you want to keep** - 31 -
4. To remove the beginning and end of a recording, grab the handle on either end of the timeline and drag it inward to the point at which you want the recording to begin or end. 5. As you can see here, the beginning and ending are amended, and eliminated portions are grayed out. 6. To delete middle portions of your presentation, click once on the scissors icon (number one below) and then once on the section of the presentation you d like to remove (number two below). - 32 -
7. After clicking you should see and additional set of handles created. 8. Drag one of the handles to create a new cut point 9. The final result is two segments (numbers one and two below) that will be included after encode. - 33 -
10. Click Save and Encode - then OK on the "Save your changes" prompt - 34 -
PANOPTO Editor : Lesson Two PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) Log in and click the edit icon How to navigate/seek in the recording 1. Clicking anywhere in the timeline will seek the video to that point 2. Click on any of the events will seek the video to where that event starts How to Insert a new thumbnail **Thumbnails can only be inserted into screencapture & secondary video streams** 1. Click Add new event 2. Click where you want the thumbnail to be inserted - 35 -
3. Type in the new caption name, enter any searchable metadata and click OK (the thumbnail image will be created after the session re-processes) How to edit a thumbnail/event Hover the mouse over the thumbnail you wish to modify and then click on "Click to edit" - 36 -
You can modify the caption, change searchable metadata, delete the entire event and change the time the event is shown in the recording How to modify the start time of a stream 1. Click the Streams tab 2. Click Edit on the stream you wish to modify - 37 -
Change the start time as desired and click OK - 38 -
Managing Versions (new in 4.0) Click the drop down where it says default Select Manage Versions - 39 -
Click New to create a new Edit (useful for creating smaller sections of a long recording) Type in a name and click OK - 40 -
Select "New" and click OK Click OK on the prompt to change versions (you may receive and additional prompt from your browser) - 41 -
Any changes that are made will be saved to the new version and not the default Insert / Edit Captions (new in 4.0) Now you manually type in a caption stream for your recordings right from the editor. To do this, click on the captions tab - start typing in the text box - press ENTER when you want to add your captions. After saving and committing the captions, these will now be visible in the captions tab in the viewer *Note: this can also be used to edit captions from a 3rd party vendor - 42 -
Everything Else 1. Stop button. Clicking the stop button returns the video back to 00:00 2. Preview Edits. If checked, only the segments of video that are being kept will play 3. +/- controls. This allows you to zoom in/out of the recording 4. Clicking revert will undo all editing that has been done - 43 -
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Advanced Editing - Splicing & Remixing PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) Remixing - Have you ever wished you could re-record part of a lecture? Introduce your video with a polished lead-in track? Show part of another video in your own presentation? Easily stitch several presentations together? Now you can, with Panopto s new remixing capability. With the easy-to-use Panopto editor, you can make your presentations richer and more engaging than ever before. To add a recording to the beginning of another one: Find the session that you want to add content into and click edit Click on the + sign (next to the scissors icon) - 45 -
From the add another session tab, expand the Folder and click on the session that will be spliced in - 46 -
Under New Session Position - select Start - then click OK PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) The session will be added to the start of the editor timeline (note: you will have to re-adjust the handles if you move the newly spliced in segment). Click save then save and quit To add a recording to the end of another one: Find the session that you want to add content into and click edit - 47 -
Click on the + sign (next to the scissors icon) From the add another session tab, expand the Folder and click on the session that will be spliced in - 48 -
Under New Session Position - select End- then click OK The session will be added to the end of the editor timeline (note: you will have to re-adjust the handles if you move the newly spliced in segment). - 49 -
Click save then save and quit To add a recording to the middle of another one: Find the session that you want to add content into and click edit Click on the + sign (next to the scissors icon) - 50 -
From the add another session tab, expand the Folder and click on the session that will be spliced in - 51 -
Under New Session Position - select Click to position- then click OK PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) The editor timeline will be highlighted in green. Click to insert the video that was selected above To move the selected segment, click on the double arrow and move it left or right (note: you will have to re-adjust the handles if you move the newly spliced in segment) - 52 -
Click save then save and quit - 53 -
Live Broadcasts PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) Panopto has the ability to broadcast all recordings live over your network or Internet. How to Broadcast: From the Panopto recorder, be sure to select an online folder, then check "Broadcast and Record." Record, Pause and Stop To start the broadcast simply click the RECORD button. To pause a live broadcast click the PAUSE button. This will not pause the session to viewers watching live, but it will insert a nondestructive edit in the recorder for future viewing. To resume the broadcast simply click the RESUME button. This will end the edit for future viewing. To end the live broadcast, simply click the STOP button. Your recording will then complete and upload to the server. RECORD PAUSE RESUME STOP Viewing Once the broadcast begins, a URL is generated and can be sent to viewers to allow them to watch the broadcast - 54 -
Users may login to the Panopto website to view any live broadcasts that may be available at that time. To do this, simply go to your Panopto server's website, and click the live session that you would like to watch. If access to the content is restricted to certain viewers, they will have to login with their credentials. You can determine which sessions are broadcasting live because the icon will look like the following: The viewer can click on the session and a viewer window will open just as it would if the lecture had been previously recorded. New pause, rewind and go live feature - 55 -
Note: To enable pause, rewind, fast-forward capabilities, you must have your recorder set to adaptive streaming capture format. ADD LINK TO PAGE ABOVE Easily seek through a live broadcast to any time by dragging the slider circled above. To catch up and watch the broadcast live, just click the "Go Live" button as seen above. Questions and Notes During the live broadcast viewers who are logged in can ask questions via the broadcast viewer window. Furthermore, viewers can also take notes during the broadcast to refer back to at a later time. The viewer's notes are stored in the SQL database on the Panopto Web Server. The viewer's questions pop up and notify the Creator in the lower right hand corner of their display. Clicking on the notification will launch the recorder. To disable this notification, from the recorder - go to settings - Basic Settings - Un-check "Notify me when a viewer asks a question" - 56 -
Creators can either respond verbally at the time of the question or review the questions after the recording is complete. - 57 -
Import Recordings From Panopto Into Blackboard Using the Panopto Building Block There are two ways of importing content from Panopto into your Blackboard Course. The first way is completely automated for you and will import all content that you've recorded into the Course Tools area of your Blackboard Course. The second way is the same as it was in previous versions of Panopto and allows you to manually import specific recordings from your Panopto Folder into the Course Documents area of your Blackboard Course. Automated Course Recording Import to Course Tools The automated course recording import function will automatically import your course recordings into the Course Tools section of your Blackboard Course. These instructions will show you how to configure your course to do this in a couple of easy steps. If your course has already been provisioned to CourseCast, your recordings will already be configured to show up automatically. You can go to the Course Tools area of your Course and click on "Panopto CourseCast Content". The list of available recordings will show up for your students the same way as it does here. The links to download the Recorders will only be available for Instructors, however. If your course has not been provisioned, please follow these simple steps: 1. In Blackboard, click on the Tools menu in your course Home page: - 58 -
2. Click on the Panopto Focus Content link on the right hand Tools pane 3. Click on the Configure button: - 59 -
a. Select our server, pvcc.hosted.panopto.com from the drop down list: b. Click on the Edit button next to the course : c. Select the course name from the drop-down, and click on Submit button: That s it you are done. If this is the first time you are provisioning a course, Blackboard will create a Panopto folder for you with the same name as the course title in Blackboard. Alternatively you can choose to use any of the folders you are currently using for you courses. Your students will now see a link to any recordings you make for the course when they click on their Tools Menu. Note: You will have to click on the button (as shown in b. above) during the Add/Drop period of the semester to synchronize your current student list with Panopto. This ensures that all your active students have access to the recorded materials. - 60 -
Important Note: If you do not use the links from within Blackboard to access Panopto content, you will need to login using the Blackboard provider login (as opposed to the Panopto login) to be guided to the specific recordings for the courses see below. Select Blackboard-Production from the Login using drop-down to get the BlackBoard login screen and use your BlackBoard id & password to access the appropriate content. - 61 -
Manual Course Recording Import to Course Documents PVCC_Panopto_Guide.Docx (contd.) Now that you have the Panopto Building Block installed and activated, users may integrate Panopto content through their Course Management page. 1. The instructor may now go to their Courses page and select the Course to which they will add Panopto content. 2. When the user has selected their Course and the Course Page opens, they will need to click on "Control Panel" in the left hand toolbar. 3. After opening the Control Panel, click on "Course Documents". - 62 -
4. Now use the drop-down box on the right-hand side to select "CourseCast Video Link" and click GO. 5. The last step is selecting your particular lecture, adding a title and description and clicking Submit. - 63 -
The Lecture that you've selected will now show up under the list of Course Documents within your Course and will allow students to click on the link and view the presentation. - 64 -