Video Tools

These are written instructions of what is shown in the video above, however, the video does not include the sections on "Inform Students" and "Caption Recording" 

IMPORTANT: You must make a recurring meeting for each class, and you must set up that meeting from inside Canvas.

Set up Canvas, Zoom, and Panopto

You only have to do this part once for each course. 

• Go into your Canvas course and add both Zoom and Panopto Recordings to your course's left navigation menu. 

  • Open your course, select the settings option from the left side menu. 

  • At the top, select the navigation tab. 

  • Move Zoom and Panopto from the bottom of the menu [the inactive space] into the active space.

• Click on the newly added link, and you'll be asked to authorize Zoom. 

  • Click Authorize.

  • If you're asked to log in, do so with your usual MyHighline information. 

• In your course navigation, click on Panopto Recordings and authorize. 

Inform Students

• In your syllabus, let students know that you plan to record classes. 

• In each meeting, let participants know you are recording and what you plan to do with this recording. Zoom will also prompt students that they are consenting to recording.

• In your zoom settings in your zoom account, --> Settings --> Recording tab --> Cloud recording section. (While this is in the cloud recording section, this setting applies to all recordings.) --> uncheck the box "display participants' names in the recording" 

Create A Class Meeting

To join a meeting, people will need the meeting URL. It'll look something like https://highline.zoom.us/j/yourMeetingID 

Once you have made the class meeting, you can post this as a link in your Canvas course, send it in an email, or include it in a calendar invitation. We recommend the following settings when scheduling meetings:

• The times are guidelines. You can open a meeting before the time indicated, and end it anytime. 

• Enable to waiting room and passcode. 

• Select Video off for participants when they join. 

• Disable "Join before host" for classes and office hours. No one will be able to start the meeting without you. 

• Mute participants on entry.

• Do not select "Only authenticated users can join." This will require students to have to log in; our experience is that it's not worth the trouble students will have unless you've had disruptive behavior in the class. 

Schedule a Recurring Meeting

• Make sure you have completed the Set-Up steps above to enable and authorize Zoom and Panopto.

• From your Canvas Course, select the Zoom tab on the left

• Click on the Schedule a New Meeting button

• Fill out the meeting information  - select that it is a recurring meeting, check waiting room (but nothing else in security) and check record meeting automatically, if you would like to use that setting. 

• Select to record to the cloud

Starting the Meeting

• From Canvas, open your course and then the Zoom tab on the left side

• Locate the Recurring Meeting you set for your course

• Click Start to start the meeting

• If you did not enable immediately start recording, make sure to select Cloud Recording [it will be stored in Panopto this way]

When you end the meeting, the video from the meeting will be available in Panopto to edit and share. 

Record Each Class

• Enter the class through the Zoom link in your Canvas Course

  • In your course left navigation menu, click on Zoom. While you'll be able to see all of your Zoom meetings, your students will only be able to see the Zoom meetings for their course. (If you only want to see your Zoom meetings for that course, check the box next to "Show my course meetings only."

• Click the record option, and choose "Record to the cloud." (if you did not set the meeting to automatically record)

• At the end of the class session, your recording will be automatically added to the Panopto Recordings link for your course.

Be patient. It takes time for the recording to be saved to the Zoom servers and then some more time for Zoom to send it over to Panopto and a bit more time for Panopto to process the recording and make it available.  The longer your recording, the longer it will take.

Caption the recording

Once the recording has posted in Panopto, you can also caption it. 

• Click on the Panopto Recordings link in your course. 

• Click the Edit button [it looks like a movie clapboard and pencil]

• On the left side of the Panopto Edit Screen, click captions. 

• Review the captions and edit them, as needed. While the captions are pretty for automatically generated captions, they will have trouble with highly technical content, such as compound names in Chemistry. 

• Click the Apply button at the top of the screen.

1. Add Panopto to Canvas (use the settings navigation to drag the Panopto bar into your navigation)

2. Click on the Panopto Recordings Tab in navigation

3. Press the Plus sign create to start making your video. 

4. Select Panopto Capture - the three top buttons will let you select the audio, video, and screens that will be used during the capture. 

5. Select the red record button to record and select it again to stop recording. 

6. From Panopto, you can edit the video to remove any sections you would like. (make sure to hit the apply button)

7. From Panopto, you can edit the captions to ensure an accurate transcript of the video. (make sure to hit the apply button)

8. Once you have edited and saved the video, open your Canvas course. 

9. In an already existing page or you can create a new page, open the edit button. 

10. Select the green Panopto symbol on the tool bar. 

11. Select your video and insert!

Normally, Panopto will make videos available to students as soon as it's done processing them. This includes anything you upload, lecture recordings, and recordings from the Zoom integration. It is best practice to set the folders to "never" and then share each video, to ensure that nothing is accidentally shared. 

Change the default setting for the class (folder):

1. Log into Panopto. 

2. Select the Course Folder for the class. Click on the settings icon that looks like a gear.

3. Scroll down to Availability

4. Set the folder to "never (unless set on the session)". Don't worry, you can still publish each class video.

5. Repeat these steps for each course. 

When you're ready to publish a video, go to the Panopto folder. Find the video to publish. 

1. Click on settings for that video. 

2. The settings will show the Overview tab. Scroll down to Availability

3. In the section labeled "Session becomes available" click on "with its folder (immediately)" 

4. Close the Panopto settings, and the video will be available. 

Panopto has a mobile app, so students can watch (or create) recordings on tablets and phones.

• Download the Panopto App (iOS, Android)

• Note: when a student starts the app, they need to enter Highline’s server address: highline.hosted.panopto.com.

Students can view the videos you share with the course folder. 

You can embed the Panopto videos into your course modules, so students can see it directly in the related course content. 

Making an Assignment Folder

Students can also MAKE Panopto videos and share them. To access this option, you will want to create an assignment folder. This ensures that students can share their videos with you, but other students will not immediately see them. This also allows students to create material in the folder without needing editing access to the larger course folder.

1. In the folder for your course, click on the Setting icon - the gear.

2. In the overview tab, click the Create Assignment Folder link under the Assignment Folder heading.

3. A new folder will be created called Course Name [Assignments]. Select that link.

4. Now, students can open their Panopto account and make videos into that folder.

5. If you would like students to be able to see the video submissions of other students, click the settings icon, click the settings tab in the settings menu, and select Allow viewers to see each other's submissions. 

6. If you no longer want students to be able to submit videos, navigate to the main page for the course, click the Settings icon, and select Close under the Assignment Folder heading. You will maintain access to the videos, but students will not be able to submit more videos. 

7. You can then create another Assignment folder, if you wish to have students submit again. 

You can find more Panopto student support here.