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Add PIP option to the Primary source window
When in the web player, when you mouse hover the primary source, right now you have two options Full Screen or Switch.
Add a third option, PIP (Picture in Picture). It will work this way:
- Move the primary video to a "selected" corner in PIP mode over the secondary video.
- The corner could be a system wide setting or selected by creator for that video session only.
- To exit the PIP mode, just press Escape as you do for full screen.
Panopto web recorder (Panopto Capture) recovery option
We find that some people are unable to use the software Panopto recorder, so they end up using the Panopto web recorder (Panopto Capture) instead. While this generally can work for them, we find students from China in particular struggle to upload recordings successfully. If they were able to use the software recorder we could recover the recording from the local stored files. However the Panopto web recorder we are unable to do so and we have to tell them their content is lost and need to try again.
What we really need is the ability to recover a Panopto web recording in the same way as you can with the software recorder. Perhaps the files can just live in the computers temp folder for a bit or go to their downloads area. They do not even have to be MP4 files, just something that we can rebuild what they have made.
Greenscreen-Support for Panopto Capture/Panopto for Windows
Without this feature we are forced to use an additional tool (e.g. Many Cam) when we want to use a green screen in our recording. This feature is a given in most modern recording softwares and i'm sure we are not the only ones who really want (need) this function.
Providing this feature will enhance panopto's usecases by a lot!
An easier way to make individual recordings available to individual students
In the LTI integration, make it simpler for particular recordings to be made available to particular individuals, such as those needing an accommodation or students who are out ill. Instructors(Creators) often think that if they go to a recording, click Share, and add someone as a viewer they have provided access, but the student still can't see the recording because it is unpublished and can't be published without making it available to the entire class. What we provide instructors with is a multi-step process as simple as we could make it. The process is outlined below in abbreviated form. Needles to say, many instructors blanch when they see how complex it is and consider that in a large class they might have to repeat it many times over. Often the result is that the recordings remain unavailable.
- Go to Panopto Recordings
- Click the Create button
- Select New Folder
- Name the folder appropriately to identify the content within
- Uncheck inherit content
- Click Create folder
- In Add People and Groups type the name or names of people who should be able to view content
- Press Save
- Exit to Panopto
- Click the up arrow to return to the parent folder
- Check the (invisible until you hover) box in the upper left corner of the recording you want to copy
- Click the Copy button
- Go to the new folder to confirm that the recording has been copied
- Return to Canvas and confirm that the recording is in the new folder
Annotation Tools for screen capture, live recording, and screen sharing
Please add annotation tools for screen capture, live recording, and screen sharing
LMS Embed Code Button to Quickly Access Student Viewership Stats
I have had several faculty request the ability to access viewership stats from the LMS embedded player. They are in need of quick access to determine who has been watching the lectures.
The current process requires the faculty to click out of the LMS to open Panopto in another window, then click through the settings and stats pages.
I envision an embed code parameter/button to load the stats page for the video within the LMS. We're using Bb Ultra.
Below is a mock-up of what it would look like.
Auto Cross-post videos to 2 (or more?) different Folders.
All our folders are provisioned by the LMS site. We use either Remote Recorder Schedules or Zoom integration to get content into Panopto folder for the course. Some instructors want the same course recordings to post into 2 different Folders, which you currently cannot do.
This would also be useful when faculty that teach different sections of the same course and need to use the same videos. The D2L integration creates a separate folder for each section and it would be nice to have a folder automatically reference copy what is in another folder. This way when they create a video in the section 1 folder, a reference copy is automatically created in section 2 & 3 folders.

Ability to set Microsoft Teams <> Panopto folder mappings rules at the central admin le
Only individual users can update which MS Teams recordings are sent to Panopto. This puts the users in control of opting into this feature and some admins would prefer to do this on their behalf. There should be an admin tool or option to configure these settings on behalf of the users (and ideally, the admin could do this in bulk for multiple teams at a time).
The reasoning for this is that the current workflow for Panonopto in Teams is too cumbersome for users. Having to set a destination folder for each Team and meeting seperatly is too much of a load and I am really concerned users will ultimately choose for the ease-of-use of Streams.
Set automatic open and close dates on assignment folders
Hello,
It would be great if assignment folders could be given a start and close date, much like session availability. Ideally, being able to queue them so that when one ends another can open immediately.
E.g. 'My Assignment folder 1' opens on 4th Jan at 00:00 and closes on the 11th Jan at 12:00. Then at 11th Jan 12:01 'My Assignment Folder 1 (late and extended deadlines)' opens.
This would solve a problem we've been having where an assignment folder needs to remain in place past an assignment deadline (for other learners with deadline extensions/late submissions) but students can't make changes to the videos already submitted post deadline. As you can imagine we have large numbers of assignments closing at the same time, so doing this manually at the exact deadline would be practically impossible.
Kind Regards,
Al

Dedicated caption editors
Good morning,
Is there a way to assign a role to a user which allows them to edit the ASR captions on a video without having the capacity to change anything else on that video?
If not, can I suggest this role be considered as a feature request?
Kind regards,
Richard