Panopto for higher education

Panopto works with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Brightspace and other major LMS platforms through LTI. It is embedded in the course, so students and teachers reach video without leaving the system they already use. Recordings are published automatically, and viewing is registered in the LMS alongside other completion data.

Panopto creates captions and transcripts automatically for every recording with built-in speech recognition. The captions work across accents, subjects and languages, and teachers don't have to send content off for manual captioning. If a recording needs better accuracy, the captions can be checked and edited directly in the platform. Accessibility becomes a routine for the institution rather than a task for each individual.

Yes. Recordings are kept in a library with clear rules and can be shared across course sections, copied into future courses or republished when needed, without duplicating files or uploading again. Teachers build up their own library of reusable content over time, and the LMS integration makes sure new students only see what they are meant to see.

Panopto gives students in the room and online equal access to every session. Recordings get captions and an index, and are published to the LMS as soon as a class ends, so students who attended in person, joined online or missed the session all have the same learning resource. There are no separate workflows and no gaps in access.

Yes. Students can record presentations, demonstrations and video assignments directly in Panopto and hand them in through the LMS for the teacher to assess. With peer review, teachers can set up structured feedback between students, all in a controlled environment that doesn't depend on a collection of separate tools.

Panopto's search indexes every spoken word, slide and element on screen in each recording, using speech recognition and text recognition (OCR). Students search for a term, a concept or a phrase and go directly to the exact moment across the whole course library, instead of watching a full lecture again to find what they need.

Yes. Panopto supports migration from other video platforms and from the institution's own storage, in a structured process that includes checking of content, re-linking and restoring or adding captions. A dedicated project team runs the migration with weekly milestones, and Panopto keeps the old and new systems running side by side so content stays available throughout the transition. Panopto states that it has never missed a customer go-live, based on its own delivery records.

Yes. Panopto is used by institutions of all sizes, from single-campus colleges to large universities with many campuses. Central administration and detailed access control let institutions use video in the same way across faculties, departments and campuses. Large research and state universities such as the University of Washington, Yale, Cornell, NC State, UNLV and Northeastern use it.

Panopto supports single sign-on through SAML, OAuth and Active Directory, so students and teachers log in with the credentials they already have. Detailed access control lets IT decide who can see, edit or manage content, down to the individual video. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and Panopto is FERPA-ready and supports GDPR requirements.

Panopto provides statistics on viewing and engagement at the level of the video, the course and the library, including completion rates, where viewers stop and overall use. Teachers can see how students engage with a particular recording, and administrators can get deeper trend analysis through Knowledge Insights, an extra analytics dashboard.