Onboarding with Panopto

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New employee onboarding with video

Give new hires a faster path to productivity

Onboarding is one of the most important training moments, and one of the hardest to deliver consistently. New employees form lasting impressions in their first weeks, and the quality of the experience depends on who carries it out and where. When onboarding relies on managers having time, on in-person sessions or on informal help from colleagues, some employees get a good start and others don't. What works well at one site doesn't always carry over to another, language barriers prolong the ramp-up for global workforces, and the experienced employees who do the onboarding spend hours repeating themselves instead of doing the job they were hired for.

Onboarding works best when it is consistent, easy to access and doesn't depend on your best people having time. With Panopto, an organisation can build an onboarding library that gives every new employee the same quality, across roles, sites and time zones, without taking managers or experts away from their work.

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Viducon is the official Panopto partner in Denmark. We handle implementation, support and workshops in Danish for your organisation, from the first demo through to daily use.

Official partners since 2014 – Viducon and Panopto
Panopto structured onboarding content

Build an onboarding experience that works without you in the room

Videos with walkthroughs for each role, demonstrations of processes and an introduction to the company, recorded in Panopto, give new employees a self-service path through onboarding. The material is organised by role, team or location and is available on demand from day one. New employees go through it at their own pace and can return to what they need without waiting for a manager to have time.

Make sure every new hire starts from the same foundation

When onboarding relies on live sessions or individual managers, the quality depends on who delivers it. With Panopto, every new employee, on every site, shift and time zone, gets the same approved material, in the same order and with the same level of instruction. Version control means that changes reach all locations at the same time when a process is updated.

Panopto consistent onboarding across sites
Panopto knowledge checks

Confirm understanding before employees go live

Quizzes and knowledge checks in the onboarding videos tell L&D and operations teams that new employees have worked with and understood the critical procedures before they start working on their own. Completion and assessment results go into the LMS, so managers have a controlled record of each employee's progress in onboarding.

Remove language as a barrier to a strong first impression

With Panopto's automatic captions and one-click video translation, onboarding material can be made available to new employees in their own language, without producing separate videos for each market or location. Search works across languages, so translated material is as easy to find as the original, and everyone starts from the same place, whatever language they work in.

Panopto multilingual onboarding

What organisations achieve with Panopto

4.5x

more content views and downloads

Sanmina

80%

lower content creation costs

LKQ Academy

2x

faster ramp-up for new employees

Toyoda Iron Works

50%

lower employee training costs

SK Telecom

Figures from Panopto customer case studies.

Frequently asked questions about onboarding with Panopto

How does Panopto help organisations onboard new employees faster?

Panopto gives organisations a video library that new employees can use from day one, with procedures for their role, an introduction to the company and compliance training, available on demand, at their own pace and on any device. Panopto's customers report up to twice as fast ramp-up and 50% lower employee training costs, based on results reported by customers including Sanmina and SK Telecom. Because onboarding material is recorded once and reused for each new group, the organisation can grow without putting more work on managers and experts.

Can Panopto replace live onboarding sessions?

Panopto doesn't have to replace live onboarding completely. It gives the organisation a self-service foundation that reduces the number of live sessions needed. New employees go through the basics on their own, arrive at live sessions already knowing the context and can return to any part afterwards without booking another session. In organisations where live training is a limit, because of distributed teams, shift work or few trainers, Panopto makes it possible to give consistent onboarding without those dependencies.

How does Panopto support onboarding for global or multilingual workforces?

Panopto supports onboarding of global workforces with automatic language detection for captions and one-click video translation into more than 75 languages, so new employees get the same training in their own language, without separate recordings for every market. Toyoda Iron Works used Panopto to unify onboarding across 25 factories in 9 countries, cutting the time from 40 to 20 hours per employee and delivering training in more than 20 languages. Employees watched procedure videos on their smartphones via a QR code right on the production floor, according to Toyoda Iron Works.

How does Panopto help ensure every new hire gets the same quality of onboarding?

Panopto keeps approved onboarding material in one library with clear rules, where every new employee, in every role, site and shift, sees the same current material. When a process or policy changes, it is updated once and reaches all locations immediately, so the quality of onboarding doesn't depend on who delivers it or where. That matters most for organisations with high turnover, many sites or distributed teams, where informal or manager-led onboarding gives big differences in how new employees start.

How can organisations track whether new hires complete onboarding content?

Panopto records completion for each new employee, showing which material has been opened, how much was watched and how large a share was completed. Managers and L&D teams can then follow the progress of onboarding without asking new employees to report back and without chasing people by hand. If the onboarding includes knowledge checks in the video, the results are recorded together with the viewing data, which shows understanding as well as completion. The records are stored in Panopto and, where it is supported, can be sent to the LMS where training records are already kept.

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