Panopto

Announcement, December 2024, Kaltura, Panopto

Announcement: Kaltura to Replace Panopto in 2025

ITS is excited to announce that Clark University will transition to a new video management system, Kaltura, during the summer of 2025. 

Kaltura offers a robust, versatile, user-friendly video platform and is a market leader in higher education. Kaltura will provide students, faculty, and staff with the same features that they love about Panopto but with many more benefits, such as 

  • Better Canvas integration 
  • Easier video management 
  • Enhanced collaboration tools 
  • Powerful analytics 
  • A focus on accessibility 

Panopto will continue to be available to all faculty, staff, and students through Spring 2025. Visit our Kaltura Adoption webpage for more information on the timeline, support, and answers to your questions. 

Why are we moving to Kaltura? 

ITS regularly evaluates our technology platforms to ensure students, staff, and faculty have access to the most appropriate tools and to ensure the needs of the community are being met in the most efficient and effective manner. 

With support from the Academic Technology Committee, ITS evaluated Panopto, Kaltura, and Canvas Studio, the major vendors in the asynchronous higher-education video platform market. Considering our requirements, Kaltura was the most attractive option from a feature and financial perspective, providing all the functionality currently available in Panopto, a more user-friendly experience, additional features that support our institutional goals, and competitive contract terms.

ITS does not take a migration of this magnitude lightly and understands the effort associated with a technology change. Kaltura is a better choice for Clark and we are committed to supporting the campus to make the transition as smooth and easy as possible. 

For more information about Kaltura, our timeline, and answers to your questions, please visit the Kaltura Adoption webpage.  

Now what?

If you’re as excited as we are about Kaltura, consider signing up to be part of our Spring 2025 pilot. Otherwise, ITS will work hard over the coming months to implement Kaltura, offer training sessions, support your transition, and communicate with the campus. Visit our Kaltura Adoption webpage for more information. 

Questions?

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Help Desk (508-793-7745, helpdesk@clarku.edu.) 

Academic Continuity, Panopto, Zoom

Zoom: Sharing Recordings from Panopto

If you’re running synchronous sessions with your students via Zoom, you should plan on recording them to make available to students who can’t attend in real-time. However, we also need to keep our FERPA obligations in mind when sharing those recordings.

When recording Zoom class sessions, you will have two options

  • Record to your computer
  • Record to the Cloud.

ITS’s recommendation is to record to the Cloud. This will save your recording to Panopto – Clark’s internal video streaming service. By default those recordings will be available only to you. However it will be easy to then move those recordings from your private Panopto folder, to your Course Panopto folder. This will allow access to these recordings to be restricted to the students enrolled in your course, and therefore protect the students privacy.

Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to move and share your recordings.

Academic Continuity, Panopto

Panopto: Getting Started

Panopto is our cloud-based video streaming and lecture capture system that makes it easy to stream, record, and share videos.

Panopto can capture your screen, audio, and/or video from web-cams and other devices to record live lectures, student or guest presentations, demonstrations, and/or supplemental materials. You can also upload any previously created video to Panopto to be shared via a link or embedded into any web page, including Moodle.

Using Panopto to record videos gives faculty the freedom to create their own content and can increase the sense of faculty presence in an online course. Panopto integration with Moodle can be used as a powerful tool for increasing student engagement around video. Students can adjust the speed of video, comment on the video with other students in a discussion chat, take notes, create bookmarks, and participate in quizzes, all within the same screen.

Interested in using Panopto?

  1. Click here for instructions on how to add Panopto to your Moodle Course.
    • The first step to receiving the correct access is to add Panopto to your Moodle Course
  2. Click here to access our Panopto – Essential Skills document to get you started.