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Auto Cross-post videos to 2 (or more?) different Folders.
Jeremy Smith
Whiz Kid
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.
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This feature would allow the folders to act more like categories and allow a video to be categorized into multiple folders without having to duplicate the video.
We have a lot of videos that may need to be accessible by multiple departments and videos that would fit into multiple categories but the content within the video will remain the same. This will allow us to edit and maintain one instance of a video and allow it to be categorized and accessible by multiple department/teams.
This could potentially be done by using playlists and departments as it exists now, but it isn't great. We are doing some poking at that sort of a thing now. Custom roles are going to be a huge win for this sort of thing as you will be able to create a "Copy Only" role where a user can view and make a copy of a session, but that would lock it in its current state.
I would rather this feature be implemented by allowing a session to composed of only a single clip of another session, I think this would tackle exactly what you need. It would also allow some additional workflows for more robust clipping inside of Panopto.
Hmm, those are some neat ideas! I like the idea of the "Copy Only" but my question would be: does that "copy" update if the original is edited?
(On-Prem) Similar to a channel, assign more than one folder in session properties to avoid having to do workaround like creating a new session and using a clip, or a playlist. Example is multiple depts want to see same video appear in browser.
Good idea.
I would like the ability to create a shortcut to a folder which can be displayed within a folder. Ideally the folder shortcut would look like a subfolder.
This would allow us to populate a folder of content and easily re-use it across multiple courses.
We have faculty that teach different sections of the same course that 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.
Interesting idea, Tyler. I can see some downsides of automating this. Faculty may have indedendent content in each section and may not want the same content in every folder. Or they may have courses which are merged and cross listed which could complicate automated duplication this.
I could see this being helpful if faculty could opt into it for specific courses, so they get to choose what folders are duplicated.
The reference copy folder would not be automatically created, the user would create it in the course folder. Now any videos you add to the reference copy folder are automatically added to the other linked reference copy folders in other course sections. You still have the ability to have separate content for each course since it could be added to the root or any other folder inside of the course folder.
Yes, please. Example of use for shortcuts. A library owns one digital copy of a file. An instructor may show it in a class. The instructor wants a single folder that contains his/her videos . . . or at least shortcuts to videos s/he does not own.
So, whether it's a shortcut to a folder or a specific video, we'd like the shortcut feature available. Thanks! --dann
Yes. This is very needed.
When I've wanted to do this, I have to do a lousy work-around.
It stinks, but it beats telling the instructor to create a reference copy after every class.
I'd love to see two things in this space:
Agree 100% with Michael! When we used the Blackboard building block we had the ability to "Reconfigure" the course folder and could point to any Panopto folder. The course's creator and viewer groups would automatically be added to the folder to which you pointed. It was an elegant solution and made it really easy for folks to re-use material from one semester to another.
Thanks Chaz for confirming the workaround I was thinking about.
I have yet another request for this today. My third of the semester.
Just the ability to create shortcuts to other Panopto folders would also be helpful. Then in FA23-PHYS 20220-01 I could create a shortcut to the FA23-PHYS 20220-02 folder and grant them permissions.
But yes, automatic folder syncing would be great.
I'm not anticipating any improvements in this area anytime soon.
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I see it is updated above:
Tracking · Last Updated August 31
Please consider using the batch copy process to
easily create reference copies that can live in more than one folder
while our team reviews this request:
However, this does not work with Scheduled Recordings, so as to have those appear in both folders. Every recording has to be moved only after it has taken place.
We would definitely make use of a folder reference copy!
Back in the day, using the Blackboard Building Block, I could provision a course with Panopto, but replace the default course folder with any other Panopto folder. This made it possible to share one folder with multiple non-combined sections and also helped faculty who re-use content from semester to semester.
This feature would also be useful for us as we have examples of multi-disciplinary modules which share only some recordings. There are many modules that are now set up like this, so manually copying over recordings is very cumbersome for staff and the current workflow we have makes it difficult for students to locate their recordings.
We would like the ability to not only mirror recordings across joint taught modules, but also have the option to set up "presets" for scenarios where only some recordings need to be copied (and where).
Hello, The IT department schedules recordings in Panopto for the entire semester. Some faculty want their recordings to save to a private folder in Panopto and others want them to save to a Panopto folder that displays in their Canvas course page. Retention policies varies from delete after 14 days to make available throughout the semester.
Several faculty have asked if there is a way to save the scheduled course recordings to both folders so they can set a 14 day retention policy on recordings that are available in Canvas and a longer retention policy on those that save in their Panopto folder. Right now the only way to do this is to manually copy each recording in the personal Panopto folder to the Canvas folder once it is completed. This task ends up going to the IT department and it is very time-consuming.
This may be a niche request but I would like to have a way to set recordings to save to two folders when they are scheduled at the beginning of the semester. That or some other way to automate this process would be amazing.
Thank you - Teresa Coberly - Assistant Director, Law School IT Department - University of Colorado, Boulder
It sounds to me like a perfect use case for the "Hide" action in retention policies. This will effectively unpublish/hide content from Viewers in a folder, and should cover the need to remove access after 14 days as well as give the faculty an easy way to share things again if/when they need.
You could also do something like hide the content after X days, Archive after 1 year (or whatever time period works), then delete from archive after some period. I don't use the "Hide" function here, but I looked at it and it does provide some good functionality.
I totally understand that some faculty want to store their content in their My Folder (or elsewhere), we have a few here that do that as well, but we make it clear to them that they will need to be the ones that manage the overhead when that is the case. The way I explain it is usually something like "we can automate some of these things if the content is stored in the right place. If you want to store it elsewhere, that is totally fine, but then you would need to do the work that the platform would otherwise do."
Same thing here Michael.
"I get why you want to do this and I can give you instructions to do it yourself, but this isn't scalable enough for us to take this on. Can you imagine if 50 faculty asked for the same thing?"