Lecture capture with Panopto

Panopto works with classroom AV systems and LMS platforms, so recordings can start, stop and be published to the course on their own, and teachers don't have to start or manage anything. Students find the recording in the usual course environment as soon as the session ends. The University of Washington has built a library of more than 60,000 hours of academic recordings with Panopto over three years, and 98% of students said Panopto contributed to their learning. At that size it is automation and LMS integration that make lecture capture something the whole institution can sustain, and not a project for single courses.

Panopto indexes every spoken word, slide and on-screen element in each recording. A student can search for a term or concept and go directly to the place where it was explained, instead of watching a whole session again. Panopto's customers in higher education report that 9 out of 10 students got better grades and 7 out of 10 remembered more after lecture video became a learning resource, based on figures from Butler University, Northwest University and KBTU. When recordings can be searched and are easy to move around in, students go back to them throughout the course.

Yes. Panopto works with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and D2L Brightspace through LTI. Teachers publish recordings directly from the course in the LMS, and students watch them in the tools they already use, without extra logins. For IT and learning technology teams at large institutions with hundreds of courses, this reduces support work considerably, because the recordings simply appear in the course.

Panopto creates captions automatically as part of the recording process, so every new lecture can be captioned by default, without extra steps for teachers or learning designers. For institutions with thousands of hours of material and hundreds of teachers, accessibility then becomes a system rather than something that depends on individuals. Documentation for WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 is available on request, and accessibility reports show the caption status of the whole video library. Under rules such as ADA Title II, the European Accessibility Act or the UK's public sector accessibility regulations, automatic captioning at scale is an important part of a sound compliance position.

Yes. Recordings published in Panopto can be reused across classes, semesters and course formats without recording again. When something changes, teachers can trim, splice or add new parts with Panopto's built-in editor and update just those segments instead of rebuilding the whole lecture. For programmes with several classes on the same course, a shared library of recorded content also helps keep teaching consistent, whoever teaches a given class. The time spent recording basic content pays off every later term.