Information technology tools and resources at the UW

Panopto Lecture Capture

Available for : Instructors Students Staff

ABOUT UW PANOPTO

Panopto is the UW-IT supported lecture capture solution. Panopto allows for easy recording and reviewing of videos from courses, lectures, and presentations. As a cloud-enabled service, Panopto is designed to simplify the lecture capture process. Recordings in Panopto are viewable on most Web browsers and mobile devices. No service fee for eligible users.

Panopto helps you to:

Usage information

Service metrics: see adoption data
UW Panopto Survey of Instructors and Students, 2016 View/Download Survey Report

Panopto Support

Online Help Center:

Help Desk:

Email and phone
Walk-in: Odegaard building Room 230
Support staff are available during Learning Technology’s Help Desk Hours.

Training:

Free workshops offered biweekly during the academic year. View schedule & register.

Known Issues and System Status:

Spring 2017: Panopto has fixed bugs in the recorders. Update yours now.
Solutions, Problems, Bugs
System Status

Next Release

Panopto was upgraded on June 10, 2017.
Highlighted features:
- YouTube Video Integration — From within the video editor, you can now embed YouTube videos directly into your Panopto recordings.
- New User Guided Tour — When Creators sign in to Panopto for the first time, they’ll be given a visual tour of the most frequently used features.
- HTML5 Live Streaming — The next time you broadcast an event, your viewers can watch it in any modern web browser without the need for browser add-ons such as Flash. In Panopto 5.4, webcasts are streamed using standards-compliant HTML5 video.
For more details, see Panopto’s release notes