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Calendar FAQs

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The following are some of the questions we frequently get asked about the Calendar in Canvas.  For a full list of FAQs from Canvas, check out these Canvas Guides from Instructure: Calendar   How do I add important dates to the Calendar? When creating Assignments, the Due Dates are…

Assignment FAQs

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The following are some of the questions we frequently get asked about Canvas Assignments.  For a full list of FAQs from Canvas, check out the Canvas Guides from Instructure.

Panopto - Adding a YouTube Video to a Panopto Video

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It is fairly common for instructors to have a YouTube video embedded in a Powerpoint or Keynote slide show. For presentations in the classroom, this works very well.  When converting that in-class presentation to a "voice over PowerPoint" video using Panopto, the YouTube video will not be…

Panopto Video Assignments

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The ability to submit videos as assignments using Panopto Capture is available to students. Here are the steps for creating and grading Panopto video assignments. Students can learn more about submitting Panopto video assignments on the Submitting a Video Assignment How-To.

Adding a Preview Image to Panopto Videos

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Panopto will display the first image in the video as the Preview Image in Panopto. This image, in many cases, is not informative about the video.  In Panopto we can add a Preview Image to appear as the title for the video. Here is an example of a video with no preview image and a video with a…

Recording a Video Using Panopto Capture

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You can use Panopto Capture to create a video of just yourself. To record a video using PowerPoint slides or screen capture, see our Creating Voiceover PowerPoint Videos Using Panopto document.

Creating a Panopto Video Quiz Assignment in Canvas

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Once quiz questions have been added to a Panopto video, connecting the video with a Canvas Assignment is required so the quiz results are added to Canvas Grades. For information about creating the video quiz refer to the document Adding Quiz Questions to a Panopto Video. Important Note - In…

Adding Quiz Questions to a Panopto Video

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This page explains how to add quiz questions to a Panopto Video. Quiz refers to one quiz question in Panopto. A quiz Section refers to one or more consecutive questions that are at the same point in the video timeline. A Panopto Video can have one Section with 1 or more questions, or…

Features of the Panopto Online Viewer for Instructors

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The Panopto Online Viewer is used to view and edit Panopto videos.  It is used to add active learning to Panopto Videos.  The Panopto Online Viewer opens in a new browser tab when a link to a Panopto video is selected and when viewers click on the "Launch Panopto Viewer" button…

Panopto - Adding Captions

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When a video or audio file is uploaded to Panopto, a process begins in the background, to automatically create captions. For the captions to be available to viewers of the media, the captions need to be imported into the video in Panopto and they should also be edited. Automatic Captions are around…