Panopto, Carleton’s lecture capture system, remains an effective way to create and host videos for your classes and websites. For Moodle users looking to integrate Panopto directly into a course, the process is changing slightly beginning Winter Term 2025 (25WI): Panopto course folders will no longer be automatically provisioned. Instead, faculty embedding Panopto-hosted videos through Moodle will discover that a Course Folder will be created in Panopto after they use either the Panopto Activity/Resource or when they click the Panopto clover nestled within the editing tools in most of the other Activity/Resources, such as the Text and Media Area.
This new provisioning still results in the creation of a course folder within the Browse > Moodle Courses folder in Panopto. Users may either store their media in that newly created Moodle Courses folder, or in a manually created folder in their own My Folder.
Provisioned folders are accessible on the Panopto Home Page > Browse > Moodle Courses. These folders will be created using your course name, without any differentiating information, such as year, term, or section. See renaming folder instructions, below, if desired. Enrolled students will automatically be granted view access to media in that folder.
Manually created folders are made the same way as always. Users visit their My Folder > click Create > New Folder.
With the manually created folder in place–and named smartly (we recommend naming course folders with Course Name_Section_Year)--users can then upload any audio or video to that folder or move existing media files to that folder using these helpful instructions. For media stored within those manually created folders, users will need to adjust their sharing settings, so students can view the videos once embedded. We recommend the share settings “Anyone at your Organization who has the link.”
Renaming folders is easy, too.
In your My Folder, simply click on the folder you’d like to rename, then click the “skinny snowman” three-dot menu, and choose Rename.
In the Browse > Moodle Courses location, you’ll right-click the folder > choose Settings > Overview > and under Name, choose Edit.
If faculty hope to integrate grading into Moodle, based on either video viewing or video quizzes, it’s important to embed the video using the Panopto Resource, rather than another Moodle Activity or Resource. The Panopto Resource allows faculty to integrate grading from Panopto viewing or quizzes into your Moodle Gradebook. The Text and Media Area allows for an easy embed, but without integrated grading.
Embedding Your Panopto Video: After deciding which tool you’d like to use, you can embed your video using one of the processes below.
When using the New Text and Media Area, users will click the Panopto clover, choose the folder in which the media is stored, select the video, and then click insert.
When using the Panopto Resource, in Moodle users should select Add an Activity or Resource, and then choose Panopto.
Then click Select Content to navigate to and select the desired video.
User will be prompted to select whether or not the video will be graded, and, if so, based on either the
% viewed or using an embedded quiz.
User must then click insert.
Additionally, in Moodle, if users do not see an entire text or media field, they’ll need to click the “Tiny” expansion icon in the bottom right of the editor window, and then drag the window to their desired size.
For more information on using Panopto, visit the Knowledge Base or check out the videos on the Panopto Home screen when you login at https://carleton.hosted.panopto.com.
If you have additional questions, please connect with Academic Technology staff at at@carleton.edu.
