Panopt Who?

Panopto! UW’s new lecture capture system is flexible and easy to use! Record your class, your students’ presentations, or create videos for your flipped classroom and then provide direct access to those recordings inside of your Canvas course. You may have heard about or used Tegrity in the past, but after conducting a needs assessment and pilot in autumn and winter quarter 2013, UW announced that Panopto would replace two of their systems, Tegrity and UW Coursecasting over the summer! 

Why record lectures? What is Flipping the Classroom? Lecture Capture can enhance learning by adding more focus – students can review lectures as often as they want from anywhere and review difficult or complex topics, annotate key concepts, search for terms, and post questions throughout the recorded lecture. It also allows for more flexibility – affording students who have busy schedules to re-visit content on the bus, in the middle of the night or whenever they set aside time for coursework. By flipping your classroom, recording material for students to view prior to class frees up precious in-person class time for active learning strategies.  The main goal in flipping a class is to cultivate deeper, richer active learning experiences for students when the instructor is present to coach and guide them.

So, Panopto is here and we are ready and excited to get you up and running on the new system! There are some really great features within Panopto. Check out the 8 Ways for Universities to Use Panopto or visit our About Panopto page to learn more!