Panopto Video Platform

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Panopto is a video creation and management tool that provides students a variety of ways to engage with video content. For faculty and staff, Panopto's integration with Canvas and Zoom offers a smooth workflow to store and share videos, edit automatically generated captions and view video analytics.   

To get started for instructors:

  • Go to the and login with your 91传媒厂 credentials.
  • Or access Panopto from the Canvas left-hand navigation menu.

To get started for students:


Important: Zoom recordings are on Panopto

Locating your Zoom recordings

If you schedule your Zoom meetings from the Zoom tab within Canvas, your Zoom recordings will go in your Panopto Course Folder.

If you schedule your Zoom meeting from sjsu.zoom.us or the Zoom application, your Zoom recordings will go into your Panopto Meetings Folder which is inside your Panopto My Folder.

Moving your Zoom recordings to Panopto

91传媒厂 will now be storing all Zoom cloud recordings in Panopto. If you鈥檇 like to save any of your prior Zoom cloud recordings, please move your Zoom cloud recordings into Panopto.

Please remember any videos with student interaction cannot be reused due to FERPA policy [pdf].


Panopto Features

Video Content Management

Panopto features easy and flexible video capture and management solutions. Faculty and staff can record and share videos from anywhere, using any laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Any Zoom cloud recordings you create will automatically appear in your Panopto account, so it's seamless to store, edit, add captions, and share your videos.

Video Accessibility

Panopto helps institutions achieve compliance with federal accessibility requirements for online video content with flexible captioning options, screen reader support, textual and visual searching and more.

For ADA compliant captioning, please see the 91传媒厂's Accessible Education Center webpage.

For more details using Panopto's automatic captioning feature, see .

Active Learning

To promote collaboration and discussion, students can use Panopto's commenting feature to discuss video content. Plus, students will find the search tool, and private notes and bookmark features useful for reviewing and studying. 

Additional active learning features are video quizzes, video submission assignments and peer review.


Panopto Resources

Panopto offers many resources, including tutorial videos and support pages.

Panopto Tutorials
  • For  more tutorial videos, see .
Panopto Support

Visit the . Login with your 91传媒厂 credentials.

Tips for Effective Lecture Videos

See Six Tips for Creating Effective Lecture Videos to explore some best practices for instructors.


Panopto Workshops

Panopto Workshops   

Login using your 91传媒厂 credentials to view the workshops.

View for upcoming webinars.

Access Panopto's designed for new users and beginners.


Panopto Frequently Asked Questions

Please view Panopto FAQs for answers to frequently asked questions. You'll find guidance on getting started and using a variety of features!