Each semester, we share 10 items to help you use technology effectively in your courses. This semester, we are focusing on the transition to Panopto as the university’s new video content management system. If you use video in any way in your teaching, this Top 10 is for you! 

The migration of videos from Kaltura to Panopto is now complete. While every effort was made to move all video content previously stored in Kaltura and relink all videos embedded in Canvas courses, some key issues have been identified that require action. The following steps will help you become familiar with Panopto as you get ready to teach this fall. 

1. Important for ALL faculty: Sign in to Panopto using your Virginia Tech username and passphrase at virginiatech.hosted.panopto.com. Your first sign-in establishes your Panopto account with the appropriate permissions to access all of Panopto’s features in your Canvas courses.
   
   
2. Organize your existing videos into course-specific folders. All migrated videos are located in the Kaltura migrations folder under My Folder. Organizing them into subfolders for each course will make it easy to manage your content and reshare videos at the folder level.
   
   
3. If you are creating a new course with new videos, you are all set. See Teaching with Panopto Videos to get started creating videos for your course.
   If you have copied a previous Canvas course with migrated embedded videos, the next seven steps are for you.
   

If you have copied a previous Canvas course with migrated embedded videos, the next seven steps are for you.

4. Turn on the “Panopto Course Folder” in your course.
   
   
5. Review any embedded/linked course videos and confirm they play as expected
   • Panopto videos display “Powered by Panopto” in the lower left-hand corner of the player.
   • Relink any videos that aren’t working using the Panopto Video tool in Pages or Modules.
   • If students cannot view videos, make sure you are using the authorized linking method from Panopto in Canvas via Pages or Modules.
     
     
6. If videos are missing from your Panopto account, first check your archive (look for the file box icon) and restore them. (Videos that were created on or before June 30, 2022, were moved to the archive as part of the storage management process.) Restoring archived videos may take up to 72 hours.
   
   
7. If missing videos are not in the archive, they may be owned by a colleague. If you know the video owner, you can contact them to share the video in Panopto. Otherwise, submit the Locate Missing Kaltura Videos form.
   
   
8. If desired, re-create the “course gallery” using a course folder. (Note: videos owned by other people cannot be moved/copied to your course folder until they add you as a Creator.)
   
   
9. Re-link any playlists and make sure to share the videos in the playlist as well.
   
   
10. If you use Zoom in your course, verify the course’s Zoom recording settings. 
    • Faculty and Staff: For Zoom course recordings to be copied to Panopto, you must sign in to Panopto using your Virginia Tech username and passphrase at virginiatech.hosted.panopto.com to obtain the appropriate permissions to set up the Zoom-Panopto integration in Canvas.
    • Graduate Students: Because you cannot log into virginiatech.hosted.panopto.com directly, for each course site where you want to use this feature, select “Panopto Course Folder” in the course navigation menu to open the Panopto course folder. Select the three dots on the course folder, then select Settings to go to the Overview tab. Select the Settings tab. Locate “Meeting Import” and select the first option, “Import all meetings, regardless of the meeting host’s setting.”

Contact us at tlos@vt.edu with questions, concerns, or to share an idea.