Best Of
Service Update 2024-04-18
Service Update 2024-04-18
Please note: This update will be applied at the end of business hours on Apr 18th for the North America, Canada, and European clouds and the end of business hours on Apr 19th for the Asia-Pacific and Australia clouds.
- Added VCMS search stemming for Basque language content.
- Fixed an issue that could block setting the availability of a video or folder when viewing an embedded course folder using LTI without third-party cookies enabled.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a user to be redirected to an invalid location from a Panopto error page if the ReturnURL was specified as an IP address.
- Fixed a rare issue that could allow a creator to order captions for a video using a disabled Caption Provider if the Caption Provider was disabled after the user had loaded the Caption Setting page.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Panopto to fail to automatically create a gradebook column in D2L when a video with a quiz was embedded using LTI when the instructor had not created a gradebook column before the student took the quiz.
- Fixed an issue that could cause multiple settings modal views to fail to load when viewing a course folder using LTI in Safari.
Version 14.17
Re: Limiting Panopto Access to a Canvas Sub-Account
Hi Brian,
A Panopto Administrator can set the specific sub-account or sub-accounts that should be integrated with Panopto in the Identity Provider Settings for your Canvas Identity Provider. You can enter one or more sub-account IDs in the Account ID field for the Canvas Identity Provider, and that should limit which courses Panopto is integrated with.
For more information, please see our support article for How to Set Up the Canvas Integration for LTI 1.3, section 2.6.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thank you,
Kevin
Re: Support Canvas "Homework Submission" LTI 1.3 placement
The Canvas Assignment Tool workflow for submitting a Panopto video should be smoother. When an instructor creates their first Panopto (give me a video) type Assignment, that action should create the Assignment Folder in the course if it does not already exist. Additionally all students who submit videos to this assignment should never have to search for where to save their video submissions. It should be saved into the assignment folder where the teachers can view it, but other students cannot automatically view it. If every time a student in Canvas submitted a WORD or PDF file assignment, they had to also use pulldown menus and find a specific folder to save it to, it would be a support nightmare. A Panopto Video submission Assignment in Canvas should work as seamlessly as a Canvas File submission Assignment.
Re: Option to export/import quiz questions and answer options
Some faculty are creating a lot of short asynchronous videos and want to add quizzes. Year to year or even semester to semester they want to rerecord and copy the current quiz to a new video.
Currently the solution is to add a new stream and delete the old but for a lot of instructors who are creating 6-8 videos a week, that's just not feasible. The ability to copy a quiz or set of quizzes in a video to another would address this.
Re: When will the How To videos be updated to reflect UX/UI changes?
Hi @Martin King,
Thank you for following up. Currently, there are no plans to provide a public-facing timeline for How To video content updates, but I can confirm that the person working through video updates is doing so as quickly as they can while also making considerations for upcoming updates that would quickly nullify an update being made now.
We greatly appreciate your patience. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to ask - we're always happy to help!
Best wishes,
Cait
Re: Download transcript as document
Thank you for releasing the downloadable clean transcript option. Instead of a global setting, it would be great to have the setting be at the video or folder level like the download podcast or download slides levels. We have had instructors in the past ask for downloadable clean transcripts, but we also recognize that not every instructor wants this option on.
Re: When will the How To videos be updated to reflect UX/UI changes?
Thanks. Are your colleagues in the Training and Documentation Team any closer to specifiying a timeline for updating the How to videos to reflect the UX/UI improvements?
Best wishes
Martin
Quarterly Release 2024-04-04 feat. Transcript Download
Quarterly Release 2024-04-04 feat. Transcript Download
Please note: This update will be applied at the end of business hours on Apr 4th for the North America and Canada clouds and the end of business hours on Apr 5th for the European, Asia-Pacific, and Australia clouds.
- Added a button to the viewer and embed player to download a clean caption transcript - without timestamps, for any user with access to view when the new site wide admin setting (‘Captioning - Enable Download in Viewers’) is true. The default setting is false. See How to Download Captions from the Viewer for more information.
- Updated to the latest version of Speechmatics, which includes Ursa processing for reduced word error rate in many languages. This update also includes specific training work completed with customers to significantly improve the quality of Norwegian captions.
- Added the ability for site admins to remove “Powered by Panopto” branding. When this new site setting (‘Features - Show 'Powered by Panopto' branding’) is set to true (default), it will show the branding in the site header, interactive viewer, embed player, Panopto Capture, and system generated emails. When set to false, it will be hidden in all these areas.
- Added support for Basque language features, including automatic captions powered by Automatic Speech Recognition, search, Optical Character Recognition, Smart Chapters and Custom Dictionary. To enable Basque support for new content, select Basque as the Content Language in folder settings, or contact Support to set Basque as the default language site-wide. Our support article for using multiple languages for captions can be reviewed here.
- Added the video name as an
aria-description
on the iframe for embedded videos to improve accessibility. - Fixed an issue that could cause a Panopto video to show as "Processing" when uploaded through the Embedded Session Chooser, even after the video has completed its processing.
- Fixed a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability in Panopto's SCORM integration.
- Fixed an issue that could result in a user being redirected to an invalid URL after logging into Panopto, if the ReturnUrl parameter was not formatted properly.
- Fixed a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability with
javascript:
URLs in intro tour video URL settings to limit the impact of a compromised Admin account. - Fixed a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability with HTML in the "Captioning - Custom Message for Settings Menu" site setting to limit the impact of a compromised Admin account.
- Fixed a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability with HTML in the "Help Menu - Support - Phone Number" site setting to limit the impact of a compromised Admin account.
Version 14.16.0
Re: Option for viewers to download captions / transcript
Is it safe to assume that creators will still be able to download and edit the srt file and re-upload. I find it easier to edit large caption files outside of Panopto.
Re: Option for viewers to download captions / transcript
@Michael Espey - IIRC, it will initially only be a site setting in the MVP. Future improvements may include options for setting this at the department, folder, user, video level.