Lecture Capture Service - Panopto Use Cases and Data Protection Advice

A lecturer may record their lecture content (PowerPoint, video, audio, etc.) to be shared with fellow staff, students, or a wider audience. Student in particular will find this enhances their learning experience to be able to playback lecture content presented by their lecturer and as a possible aid de memoire before exam time as part of revision. This can be done from seminar rooms, public theatres and from your own office, on any machine which already has the Panopto software installed.

A lecturer may also record pre-lecture notes to share with their students in advance of the lecture itself, aiding student preparation and allowing more time during the lecture for open discussion, feedback, etc.

The service may be used to record content from special guest speakers from other institutions who are speaking at a Trinity-sponsored conference, as well as internal staff speakers at conference events within Trinity. This content can then be shared or published on the Trinity school or department’s website to publicise it to a wider audience. It can serve as a promotional tool for the research or teaching work undertaken by the department or school, reaching a wider audience.

As Panopto has an app from Android and iOS devices, such as phones or tablets, research or teaching work undertaken away from the office desk may also be recorded and uploaded once the recording tablet or phone has an internet connection, so, e.g. practical field work could be recorded on the tablet device and uploaded to the Trinity Panopto storage site.

Panopto can be used to record training materials that can be shared with internal or external audiences, potentially saving time, travel, and effort for a department or school.

Panopto enables a lecture or conference speaker to be web-streamed live to a wider internal or external audience.