Panopto
Panopto is an easy-to-use all-in-one video platform to easily produce, edit and share video content.
Panopto is an all-in-one video platform for teaching and presentations where it should be easy to use - and produce user-generated video content. Originating in academia, Panopto supports video productions where the user - and not the technology - is in focus.
Panopto makes it easy to produce, edit and share video content. Panopto especially supports user-generated video content, and is particularly useful for teaching due to its versatile support of workflows at educational institutions and is suitable for auditorium recordings.
Education and research institutions in Denmark can use the Panopto service via an institutional license through DeiC.
What does Panopto offer?
- Upload and transcoding for both multi-stream and single stream.
- Recording of presentations via desktop recorder, mobile app, regular browser, or automatic recording of auditorium lessons.
- Media management, including advanced editing in regular browser, metadata, annotation, bookmarks, notes, quiz, subscription, etc.
- Inbuilt transcription of audio tracks and screen captions
- Publishing to portals, including own website, uploading singlestream to YouTube, etc.
- Integration with a range of LMS systems ensures access via familiar user interface, as well as user- and group-specific access control to media.
- Multi-stream streaming from desktop or auditoriums via a range of production scenarios
- Searchability across both titles, metadata, subtitles, transcripts of screen content, etc.
- Statistics and analytics tools, e.g. which videos are viewed in full length
Who can use Panopto?
Users: Educational and research institutions in Denmark can use the Panopto service via an institutional license through DeiC. Workflows for teachers, students, administrators and other employees at the institution are supported.
What does it take to use Panopto?
Equipment: Panopto does not require a large technical setup. Users can use ordinary devices such as a computer or mobile phone together with Panopto's client software or web application. The recording program in Panopto makes it possible to make screen and video recordings, or stream live over the Internet.
Editing is done via the Panopto web portal in a regular browser, where the recording can be customized and a number of other elements such as indexing, quiz, link etc. can be added.
Auditorial recordings are supported via dedicated third-party hardware, or you can use Panopto software recorder on regular PC equipment. The solution will typically be configured with a tablet PC that makes it easy for an instructor to start recording via a simple "virtual button".
What about legal, security and personal data?
- Access control: Access control is done via WAYF with users' own username and password from the institution.
- Encryption: Data is protected with encryption in transmission and in storage.
- Data storage:Recordings are stored at NORDUnet's data center in Denmark.
- Logging:Statistics and logging of media access can be accessed under Panopto administration module.
- Backup: Data is protected via mirroring of disks and duplication of content to 2 locations.
- User rights: The local institution can support the right of access, deletion, correction and porting.
- Data processing agreement: DeiC offers data processing agreement on the basis of sub-data processing agreement between DeiC and NORDUnet.
What does it cost to use Panopto?
Pricing model: Panopto is not part of the total price for connection to the research network, but requires separate payment.
Volume discount: The price is dependent on the total number of student FTEs at the institution.
Is my institution connected to Panopto?
The following organizations have already agreed to use Panopto through DeiC / NORDUnet.
Click the link next to the home organization to get quick access to Panopto.
- AAU: Aalborg University: LMS and video portal: https://panopto.aau.dk
- DTU: Technical University of Denmark: LMS and video portal: https://panopto.dtu.dk
- TEC: Technical Education Copenhagen: https://tec.panopto.nordu.net
Get help
End-user support is provided from your own organization. Check the text above to see if your organization is connected.
You can contact DeiC for more information about Panopto by contacting the service manager, Thorkild Jensen. Other inquiries at Panopto:
Legal responsible: DeiC, DTU (CVR 30 06 09 46) (Data Processor)
Hosting partner: NORDUnet (sub-processor)
System supplier: Zoom (sub-processor)