Video recording and creation with VUB Panopto

Panopto is the preferred video upload application for the VUB.

It has always been present in the VUB and used by the VUB teaching and administrative staff (and even the students) for uploading recorded lectures, video content, video assignments, and other useful videos and video communications to VUB Pointcarre.

With the shift from Pointcarre to Canvas LMS, Panopto has moved with us.

Panopto VUB has long proven its reliability through the years and is ideal for recording and storing large lecture videos on the cloud for future use and sharing among the Panopto users in the VUB.

In this section, therefore, we shall revisit the steps to creating Panopto recordings as well as the upload of these Panopto videos to your Canvas Course as an assignment, content (lecture etc....), quizzes, discussions or even an announcement.

Creating Panopto recordings

To start creating your Panopto recordings, you must head over to the Panopto VUB site.

The site will then prompt you to sign in or create an account with your VUB username and password. After signing in, the Panopto interface will look something like the one in the image below.

VUB videos that are relevant to you and your instruction area (your department, general VUB events etc...) will be listed in the ´Home´ section of Panopto (as seen in the image shown below).

To the far top right, you can click on the ´Download Panopto´ button to download the Panopto application and start your video recordings and presentations.

Video tutorials on video recording and editing with Panopto are covered elsewhere in Panopto VUB.

Click on this link to access these short and precise tutorials on how to record and save videos on Panopto VUB cloud.

Embedding Panopto Videos to your Canvas course

Once done with your recordings and video uploads to Panopto, you can then decide to embed this video to a section of your course, or to a page.

There are two main ways of uploading videos to Canvas via Panopto;

Via the Panopto button on Course navigation; and
Embedding the video in a Page using the Rich Content Editor

Click on Next below to see more on these two video upload ways on Canvas.