Record a lecture in a Senior Lecturer Pool Room or using your own device using the Panopto desktop application
This guide explains how to capture your screen, audio, and video in Trinity's Senior Lecture Pool Room lecture theatres or on your personal device. This service is exclusively available to Trinity staff members who are enrolled as an Instructor on a Blackboard module. You can record using either the Panopto Desktop Application (Recommended) or Panopto Capture (Browser-Based).
Prerequisite Steps:
Click below to learn how to install, launch and enable Panopto to record using the Panopto Recorder in a lecture theatre, office PC or personal computer. Before you can use Panopto to record videos in Blackboard, you will need to link the Panopto Lecture Capture Link to each Module that you'll want to record videos for. These steps must be carried out for each Module and will provide you with a link to run the Panopto Lecture Capture Software.
Select your operating system below for instructions
How to record using Panopto in Blackboard for Windows PCs
- Log in to Blackboard.
- Select the Module from your Module List that you wish to record a lecture to - remember that you must have already setup Panopto for your Module in Blackboard before you can use Panopto for the first time in that Module.
- Click your Panopto Lecture Capture link that you created for this Module and then choose Create, and then Record a new session.

- Click Launch Panopto - the Panopto app will open on the 'Create New Recording' tab.
- On the above screen, you can see the Folder that the recording will be listed under for that Module.
- Beside Name, enter a sensible name for this recording session.
- On the left, you will see that 'Capture Main Screen' is selected by default, meaning that all actions carried out on the computer screen will be recorded.
- Under Primary Sources, Video would refer to additional video devices and would be left off.
- Usually, Audio is already selected to record audio through the mic, and you can set a Quality level.
- You can select to 'Capture Computer Audio' if you wish to record audio generated by applications you use during your recording.
- There is a 'Webcast' option towards the top right that generates a web address you can share with anyone who is not present but who you wish to see the presentation as it happens.
- Record & Pause: Click Record to start; use Pause as needed during the lecture.
- Stop & Review: Click Stop when finished. Select Upload (or delete to record again) to save it to the TCD Panopto Cloud storage location. A copy is also stored on the local Windows computer.
- After choosing Upload, the Manage Recordings window will display, showing you a historical list of recordings, with the most recent at the top.
- Note that it may take a few minutes for your new recording to be fully uploaded to the TCD Panopto Cloud. When this process is complete, you will also receive an email to your Trinity email account to confirm the video has been uploaded successfully.
- By default, the new lecture recording will be viewable to students enrolled in that module when they log in to Blackboard.
- The Share option is required only if you want to share the video with users beyond the students enrolled in your Module.