For GDPR Complience its possible to integrate with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Studio, and spin up internal servers running GPT-3.5 Turbo or even GPT4 instead of using OpenAI APIs.

Panopto should adopt the YouTube player shortcuts. Then you could pause and use the , and . to move forward and backward 1 frame at a time.

This idea is really old, but I just encountered it for the first time. Specifically, I have just encountered an example of what @Charles Barbour described: "if a student is elevated to a TA [or similar] and then demoted back to a student, they'll still be in the creator group". I think the good news is that now as an admin I do have the power to remove the student from the Creator group. When I go into User Info for the user, I can click on "Groups" and see all the Groups they are in, and remove them. The problem is, I would have to know this is happening. In other words, I would have to wait until the problem occurs and someone notices. I would prefer that the student automatically be removed from that Creator Group when their role in the course changes. If there is a way to make this a setting globally, I would love to know!

This fall I hope to experiment with sending SAML assertions to Panopto. If a student is enrolled in a course, when they log in they would send that assertion to Panopto and be added to the group for that course. If that group is added to a folder, it is always updated. If a student drops the course, the next time they log into Panopto, they no longer send that assertion and are no longer a member of the group.

In theory, it sounds like it will work great. It also won't depend on the LMS and LTI so if a faculty member just uses their own website to distribute course materials (yuck!), they still can securely share Panopto content.

For your last point, I think the LTI embed feature using the button in the editor in Canvas sort works like you want, though in a more complex manner. It creates a unique group for each embedded item and then adds anyone who views that item to a group which provides them with viewing rights.

What I've found frustrating is that Panopto's LTI implementations (and I think all VCMS vendors are the same) only adds people to a group. It won't remove them from it. There's no "sync" built into the process to ensure the roster is up to date and accurate. What should happen is that when anyone logs in via LTI, it triggers a roster sync.

Kim Stevens logs in which triggers a sync, Panopto see that Kyree Allen dropped the course, and he's removed from the viewers group.

And if a student in elevated to a TA and then demoted back to a student, they'll still be in the creator group and there's no way for an Admin to remove someone from an LTI group. To get them removed from the creator group I think you need to contact Panopto support.

Hey Michael!

Another great suggestion! You know the drill — I've filed this away, and we'll consider it for the future. I especially appreciate the focus on making such adjustments an Admin-related tool.

That said, I did want to add some context on the restoration process and how it's behaving right now.

We've recently adjusted the maximum restoration time to 72 hours in some cases, which I know only makes your point even more valid, but I wanted to be sure current expectations are clear. We also aim to provide a more precise estimate of the remaining time for content restoration, which will help anticipate when certain videos will be available.

Amen. It seems like caption confidence is something that should be accessible and available for reporting.

I think it would also be helpful to know, if it is a Panopto native recording, which device it was recorded on in addition to if there are any processing errors. In an ideal world, we'd also be able to generate reporting on the time it took for various steps in the processing queue. This would make it easy to keep an eye on system performance and potentially problematic rooms/buildings.

Love the suggestion!

I've merged this with our existing request "FR-6775: Restore videos for unauthenticated users OR provide contact for viewers to request restore", which matches with this.

I agree. Audio gain has been a solved problem for years in every other recording or videoconferencing app I use. It would be nice to see that in Panopto.