Yes, please! I was just coming to put in my own New Feature Request when I saw this one. There are any number of questions that require short answer responses - reflection questions like Michelle mentions, "give an example of this concept", "describe what you see on this slide", etc. Even just being able to end a video with "what questions do you have about the material I just presented" seems like an obvious need.

Another way to think about this - how many of us, when teaching in person, ask only multiple choice or true/false questions during our lectures? I'm guessing almost all of us ask open-ended questions, because the responses we get help us understand what our students are thinking and encourage them to engage with the material.

Most other interactive video programs include this option already. I am considering adopting Panopto for my fall courses, and it seems like a great program in other ways, but this is the one feature missing that seems likely to be a deal-breaker for me, and I'm honestly surprised it doesn't already exist. While the ungraded quiz option (or grading by word count) would be great, I actually think a great 'quick fix' would be to expand the text box in the existing fill-in-the-blank questions - we could then mark the box preventing students from seeing their scores immediately, and go back and assign the points manually later on.

It would be nice if we were able to feed Panopto an XML or CSV file to handle bulk imports of content from the web UI.

We are in the process of migrating a large, long-running (started in 2009) podcast from a standalone server to Panopto for hosting, and the process of uploading, renaming, changing dates, owners, etc. is very tedious work.

I am considering writing a script to automate this, but it would be great if this was native functionality at least for admins/department admins. Everything that you might need to have is already in the XML, it would just be a matter of uploading the file, prompting the user to map fields to attributes in Panopto (name, date, description, owner) then the job could run in the background. As part of the attribute mapping process, the user should be able to set certain attributes manually for all assets being imported (owner, tags, etc.).

Beyond importing content in this way from existing XML feeds, I could see some use cases where being able to feed Panopto an XML/CSV file directly to import content like this would be a great feature when content hosted elsewhere on the web needs to be imported into a Panopto library in bulk.

Even if we couldn't directly import an existing schema and map attributes in the UI, if you had an approved schema for us to work with that could be consumed in bulk, that would work in every case that I can think of.

Currently, changing a secondary stream to a primary stream requires downloading the secondary stream and dragging and dropping it into a primary stream. This is laborious and time consuming. I request that a change be made that the primary and secondary streams be more easily swapped from the Edit option in Panopto.

A new feature has been added "Enable automatic device matching for remote recorders" - as part of this we get a notification sent out whenever this happens.

We use our lectern PCs as remote recorders, so staff can connect webcams etc to the PC. Each time they do this, we get this notification. As such most of the notifications are not useful to us and we wish to disable them. There is no feature to do this without disabling all remote recorder notifications, some of which are useful. Please add the ability to disable these notifications.

Currently, in Panopto recorder administrator permissions have to be assigned by searching for and adding each recorder one by one. For organisations that have 300+ recorders this is very time-consuming. Ideally, there would be a way to grant access to all recorders for staff responsible for recorder configuration and maintenance. Currently, this functionality isn't available but it would save a lot of time and changes to the recorder administrator, allowing site-wide permissions to be assigned for all of them, would also make it easier for when new recorders are added.

When displaying a Panopto Video in MS Teams via the Panopto App, currently the attendees need to start the video themselves and can move forward and backward in the video. Can there be a setting where the Panopto becomes more of a live video that attendees can not control and control is only with the Presenter? The idea being that attendees feel like they are in a live broadcast.

I thought I had requested this feature before, but I cannot find it. So I am starting again.

It would be great if we had a 'Caption Editor' role.

The role could then be assigned to trusted users (mainly students) on certain folders or videos that would only allow them to edit the automatically generated captions to a video.

This would be a quick and easy way to increase the accuracy of the automated captions, without the worry of giving full edit rights to content.

I manually create scheduled recordings on my remote recorders (Epiphan Pearl 2's) for the semester. When I do so, I become the owner of videos.

Where there has become a problem is when faculty decide to restrict access to insure attendance to classes. Consequently, I get a request from a student who wants to access a video. The only way I have found to change this is to individually edit each recording and change ownership to the faculty for that particular course. This can be a long process.

This particularly became an issue after the Northeast snow storm this past weekend that caused cancellation of classes when faculty wanted to use videos from a prior semester, so shared that link, not realizing even with access for students, that folder is restricted to just that semester's course list. I was inundated yesterday with email requests for access to videos from courses with 200 - 300 students. I did inform the faculty about copying the video over to the current semester for access, but the link had already gone out to students, so the requests kept on pouring in yesterday to my email.

I would really like a way to assign ownership to the creator team rather than to the person who created the scheduled recording. I looked into the Panopto Scheduling Tool, but there is no way to change ownership with that. So that's why I'm asking to have this ability, for my own sanity if not for others who run into the same problems.

Thanks,

Elaine

When sections of a video are cut out of playback, it is difficult to quickly see which captions are also hidden from playback. It would be helpful for a some visual indicator to be added to the captions to show that they will be excluded from playback. This would speed up the captioning editing process significantly. Bonus: if a caption line is begins in a section that has been cut from playback but the text ends in a spot that would be played back, that this would be visually indicated in the caption line as well.

Since we implemented our auto-archive policy after 2 years of not being viewed (a great feature!), a couple faculty said they were frustrated that they didn't get notifications about the move to archive—which takes 2-3 days before the videos can be recovered. While system admin get the notifications, it would clearly help our users to get that notification, too, so they can prevent their media from being moved to the archive—if that's important to them.

Thanks!