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Finding and Sharing your Panopto Resources

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Panopto is the University’s desktop and lecture recording tool and video hosting platform. Panopto is integrated into Blackboard and permissions to view videos are associated with the Blackboard course.

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  • On each Blackboard course there is an associated ‘Panopto course folder’. Any videos in this folder can be viewed by anyone on the course.
  • In addition to this you have your own personal ‘My folder’; any videos in this folder are only viewable to you. If you want to move videos from your My folder into your Course folder, please see this guide to moving Panopto videos.

How can I see where my videos are located?

Go to any Blackboard course where Panopto has been provisioned.

Click on the ‘Panopto Video’ link on the left-hand menu of your Blackboard module.

Here you will see all videos in the corresponding Panopto course folder.

To access your My folder, click the drop-down arrow next to the name of your course.

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You will then see your ‘My Folder’:

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Note that if you click on ‘Everything’ you will see all the videos you have access to.

You can use the search box to search within a folder.

While this is the default, you can manually change the share settings on any video or any folder. To do this, please see the Panopto Sharing guide.

If you have any queries, please contact us at tel@worc.ac.uk and we will be happy to help.

Decommissioning Uniview

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As you may know we introduced Panopto last year as the University’s primary video management system.

As part of this project we arranged for any video still in use from Uniview to be migrated to Panopto and this work has now been completed and users who previously had videos in Uniview should now find them in their “My Folder” in Panopto. To make these available to students you will need to move them from your “My Folder” to the appropriate Blackboard module folder and instructions on how to do this can be found here

https://lttu.uk/support/Panopto/staff/move.html

Our licence for Uniview is about to expire and the system will be closed down permanently on 12th July. Please double check your folder in Panopto before this date to ensure that you have access to any legacy video before the system is shut down as we will be unable to retrieve any Uniview videos after that date.

Collaborate Recordings

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Text from Judith Keene\’s all staff email dated Monday 15th March 2021

The past twelve months have seen a massive surge in uptake of all of our learning platforms and the way in which staff have engaged with adapting to teaching online has been incredible.

We are now in a position where usage of our platforms is beginning to exceed our allocated quota from suppliers and, whilst we are keen for people to continue to use these technologies, there is a cost and management implication which we need to be mindful of.

With that in mind we are planning on removing all Collaborate recordings from the previous academic year. If you have any recordings you would like to keep please download them from your Collaborate area by 31st March and upload them to Panopto where they will have the added benefit of being automatically captioned. Please see our step-by-step guidance on how to do this. Any recordings made prior to 1st September 2020 will be removed from the system on 1st April. If you have questions or concerns about this, please contact tel@worc.ac.uk

We also have some suggestions for best practice to help make the best use of Collaborate:

  • Only record sessions which will need to be accessed again.
  • When recording a long session, stop the recording during breaks or activities offline or in breakout groups.
  • If running a session with little or no interactivity consider using the Panopto webcast feature.
  • Delete any old recordings which are no longer required (statistics show that the vast majority of recordings are only accessed within 30 days of the original event)

Please also refer to our recent blog post about managing files and videos within your Blackboard course.

TEL Workshops and Facilitated Discussions

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Between now and the end of March, we will be running a series of online workshops to help staff get to grips with a range of learning technologies.  In addition to our familiar sessions, we will also be running five facilitated discussions covering topics such as moving tuition online, student engagement and best practice using PebblePad. Staff will have the opportunity to share their experiences and learn new approaches from colleagues, guided by members of the Technology Enhanced Learning Unit.

 

Blackboard Made Simple  25th January, 10.15 – 11.15 
Collaborate Virtual Classroom  27th January, 10:15 – 11:15am 
Using Tests and Surveys in Blackboard  3rd February, 10.15 – 11.30 
Blackboard Accessibility and Ally  5th February, 10.15 – 11.30 
Facilitated discussion – moving to online teaching: what works?  8th February, 11.15 – 12.15 
Camtasia  10th February, 10.15 – 11.30 
Using Blackboard for Blended and Mobile Learning  12th February, 10.15 – 11.30 
Recording from your Desktop using Panopto  17th February, 10.15 – 11.30 
Vevox Polling Software  19th February, 10.15 – 1130 
Facilitated discussion: Good practice with PebblePad  3rd March, 10.15 – 11.30 
Assessing student presentations online using Collaborate and Panopto  11th March, 10.15 – 11.30 
Facilitated discussion: approaches to online assessment 17th March, 10.15 – 11.15 
Facilitated discussion: recording teaching sessions tips and tricks  25th March, 10.15 – 11.15 

If you are interested in attending any of these sessions, please sign up via the Staff Development Workshops pages on the staff portal.

Tel Me More – Panopto for Beginners

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On Wednesday 16th December, the Technology Enhanced Learning Unit will be hosting our annual ‘TEL’ Me More Seminar. We have been providing more information about the topics that will be covered – see links to the other topics at the bottom of this post.

The final presentation is from Bill Davies, Head of the School of Law, covering the use of Panopto for recording and sharing lectures and other video content.

Panopto for beginners – by a beginner

Bill Davies

This presentation is designed to share experiences of the use of Panopto to support blended learning in Law over the last 3 months.  The session will compare the relative advantages of Panopto with Collaborate and other systems of electronic delivery and discuss experiences of using them simultaneously.

If you are interested in finding out more, you can sign up to attend TEL Me More via the Staff Development Workshops pages. There are now very few spaces available.

You can see details of the other presentations at TEL Me more on the previous posts in this series:

Video Content Management – Important Changes

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The implementation of Panopto is now well underway. As part of the roll-out plan we are reviewing legacy video content in other systems.

Planet estream/Uniview

We are planning to migrate any video still in use from Planet eStream/Uniview to Panopto. Before undertaking this work we will be purging the system of any content that has not been viewed within the last 12 months.

If you have video content on eStream that you want to keep, please go to the item in the system and play it. This will ensure it doesn\’t appear in the not accessed list which we will be removing.

If you have any queries about Planet eStream content please email paul.baker@worc.ac.uk

The system will be purged on 14th December 2020 and any videos that have not been accessed for over 12 months from then will be permanently deleted.

We will also be disabling the ability to upload new content to Planet eStream from Monday 7th December. Any new content will need to be uploaded to Panopto, for more information on this please go to https://uwtel.co.uk/tel-tools/panopto/.

More information will follow on the migration process.

Collaborate Recordings

We are also looking to remove recordings from Collaborate that are over 12 months old.

If you have a Collaborate recording over 12 months old that you wish to keep, please download the file and upload it to Panopto. This will preserve the recording and add automatic captioning. Again for more information on how to do this please go to https://uwtel.co.uk/tel-tools/panopto/.

Any recordings over 12 months old will be removed on 14th December 2020.

TEL Workshops for Semester 1

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We’ve had a very busy summer so far, with all of our workshops being fully subscribed. Don’t worry if you missed out though as we’re planning plenty more training opportunities from September and beyond.

We know that many of you are starting to think about how you will be delivering your learning and teaching next year and might be wondering what you can use to support your blended and online elements.

With that in mind we’ve put together a programme of workshops that cover various tools which can help support online learning and teaching and, whilst the focus of the workshops will be on using a particular technology, we will of course include use cases and scenarios of where this will be useful, and provide examples of good practice.

All the workshops will be delivered online and you can sign up for them from the staff development booking page.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s available, and when:

  • 3/9/20 10.15 -11.30, Blackboard made simple
    This workshop is ideal for those of you wo are new to Blackboard, or who may need a refresher.
  • 8/9/20, 10.00 – 11.00, Vevox online polling
    Vevox is our new online voting tool and can be used in conjunction with Collaborate to engage your students in polling and online question and answer sessions.
  • 9/9/20 and 23/9/20, 10.00 -11.00, Collaborate
    Collaborate has become the go-to technology for delivering live online sessions. If you’ve not yet tried it or would like to build a bit more confidence this session is for you.
  • 15/9/20 and 24/9/20, NEW – Recording from your desktop using Panopto
    Panopto is our new video platform which allows you to record presentations from your desktop and make them available to your students via Blackboard.
  • 16/9/20, 10.15 -11.15, Accessibility and Ally
    The new accessibility guidelines come into force in September and Ally is now available in all Blackboard modules for staff and students. This session will show you how you can use it to improve the accessibility of your module.
  • 22/9/20, 10.15-11.30, Using tests, quizzes and surveys on Blackboard
    Quizzes are a great way to engage students and can provide formative feedback on their learning. This session will show you how to set up and deliver quizzes and surveys within your module.
  • 30/9/20 10.00 -11.00, Assessing student presentations online using Collaborate and Panopto
    Assessing student presentation online presents a number of challenges and opportunities. This workshop will look at the options available and discuss the practicalities of assessing student presentations in an online environment.
  • 01/10/20, 10.15-11.30, Camtasia
    Camtasia is a great tool for creating learning resources for your students which can be interactive and engaging, and accessed at a time convenient to the student
  • 7/10/20, 10.00 -11.00, Tracking student engagement in Blackboard
    Retention and engagement is even more critical when students are working remotely. This session will show you how you can use the tools within Blackboard to check how your students are engaging with the module.
  • 8/10/20, 10.15-11.15, Blended Mobile and Flipped learning
    This session will look at how to make best use of Blackboard to facilitate flipped and blended learning. It will also consider how to comply with the new accessibility guidelines which come into force in September 2019. There will also be a discussion regarding how best to structure your Blackboard module to make it compatible with the increasing use of mobile devices by students.

We also now have a fully online, interactive training package for Turnitin which is hosted on LearnUpon. Just login via the staff homepage and work through the package – it should take no more than an hour and covers everything you need to know about using Turnitin for assignment submission, marking and feedback.

If you have any queries, please email tel@worc.ac.uk

Uniview Downtime

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With the increased use of video for learning, teaching and assessment, IT will be carrying out an essential upgrade to the Uniview/Planet E-Stream media streaming server on Thursday 9th April from 13.00.

This means that users will be unable to upload any new files or watch videos hosted on this service until the upgrade is complete. At the same time we will be removing any videos that have not been accessed for the past 18 months so please check any content you have previously uploaded.

The upgrade will allow increased capacity and improved functionality of this system so please bear with us while we complete this essential work.

‘Have a TEL related query? The TEL team are offering staff support drop-in sessions online; Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10am – 11am. You can access the drop-in here: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/5ec551fb8282487eb0a115a4c4bea6b1

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