Lecture Capture (Panopto) - FAQ's

What uses can  I make of this service?

This service allows a lecturer potentially to do the following:

Create classroom-type lecture recordings

Create audio or video recordings of Theatre or Seminar room class lectures using audio, video, screen capture and PowerPoint presentations within Blackboard (or independent of Blackboard) for playback by your students on a range of technology devices such as laptops, tablets, smartphones. These classroom video recordings can be a great benefit to your students as an aide de mémoire after the class ends or coming up to exam time.

Create micro-lectures or flipped classroom recordings using your technology device.

Create micro-lectures at your computer in your office, in your laboratory, on a field trip, or any other suitable location using your desktop computer, laptop computer, tablet, or smartphone. These micro-lectures can be prepared in advance of your next lecture as a discussion medium for your students to read and consume before the next lecture.

Student-led recordings

The service could be used by students under the direction of the lecturer to present the students' work or improve student presentations through practice.

Once-off lecture recordings

If you have a non-TCD guest speaker doing a Talk or lecture in Trinity, the lecture can be recordings and downloaded to mp4 format.

Lecture Recording webcasting/streamed

You could stream or webcast your lecture to a wider audience online in real-time using this service. This may be useful for online courses.

Download the lecture recordings in the MP4 format.

You can download the lecture recordings and post them to your Trinity website for viewing by a wider non-TCD audience if required.

Instructional/Training recordings

This service could be used to create instructional guides or training material recordings for in-house staff training.

Staff or Students are unable to view lecture-recorded content

Staff

If you have set up your Panopto Application Tool link in the Blackboard Module content area and clicked on your Panopto Tool link to create recording content, but experienced one of the following:

• You are asked to sign in, but when you click sign in, it doesn’t work, logs you out of Blackboard, or returns you to the same page with the same message, and nothing happens
• The link didn't show you the Panopto page with the Create down button in the middle to do a recording

Then this means that your web browser is blocking Panopto from working with Blackboard. In this instance, you need to check your specific web browser settings to ensure that cross-party cookies are allowed. View the Panopto support page for help on how to configure the cross-party cookies setting for a range of web browsers to solve this issue. If you are using an iOS device, you may also need to disable the setting 'Prevent Cross-Site Tracking' in your Safari or Google Chrome settings.

Students

If you have logged into your module in Blackboard and you have clicked on a Panopto lecture recording created by your lecturer, but experienced one of the following:

• You are asked to sign in, but when you click sign in, it doesn’t work, logs you out of Blackboard, or returns you to the same page with the same message, and nothing happens
• The Panopto recording does not play back for you

Then this means that your web browser is blocking Panopto from working with Blackboard. In this instance, you need to check your specific web browser settings to ensure that cross-party cookies are allowed. View the Panopto support page for help on how to configure the cross-party cookies setting for a range of web browsers to solve this issue. If you are using an iOS device, you may also need to disable the setting 'Prevent Cross-Site Tracking' in your Safari or Google Chrome settings.

Panopto supports the most popular range of technology devices to record lecture content, such as:

1. Windows OS
2. macOS
3. Android Tablets and Smartphones
4. iOS devices: iPhone
5. iPadOS devices: iPad

Note: Currently, it is not possible to record and upload using Panopto on an Android device. If you wish to record and upload on an Android device, please use the native recording app on your Android device and upload to Blackboard or the TCD Panopto cloud portal.

Can I schedule a lecture recording in advance?

No, not presently, but we would hope to have this available in the longer term.

Can my lecture be broadcast/streamed to a wider audience using this technology?

Yes, this service allows for a real-time lecture to be streamed using a web link that can be sent to additional participants who may be located elsewhere.

Can I download the lecture recordings from Blackboard?

Yes, you can download the lecture recordings in an MP4 format, which can be viewed on a range of devices. You may want to upload your lecture recording to your departmental website in some cases, but be careful regarding web server storage capacity, as these MP4s tend to be very large in size.

I'm unable to email my lecture recording MP4 file to a colleague. Why is this?

It is better to share the lecture recording within Blackboard rather than trying to email it; the Microsoft 365 email has a set limit, which may not allow this type of large file to be emailed. If you have to send an MP4 to another person, then the HEAnet FileSender service is a very useful alternative way to do this, see HEAnet FileSender