Panopto Zoom Integration

To ensure you can easily share and store classroom recordings, we recommend that all instructors enable the Panopto Zoom integration in their courses. This integration enables meeting recordings to be automatically saved in your Canvas course. View the recordings in the Panopto Recordings course folder.

Benefits of Panopto Zoom integration:

The recorded meetings will be easily available to students who missed a class or need to review the lecture.
The UW Panopto system saves meeting recordings for five years. Zoom deletes meeting recordings after 150 days, which can be an obstacle for instructors who wish to reuse or revisit recordings the following year.
If you need to edit or remove a section of your recording, Panopto's editing function makes this possible. Zoom allows you to temporarily trim the beginning and end of the video.

Step 1: Panopto Zoom integration settings

Highlighted Panopto Recordings link on a Canvas navigation panel.

In your Canvas course, select Panopto Recordings from the course navigation panel.
If Panopto Recordings is not visible in the course navigation panel, enable this navigation link in Canvas Settings > Navigation.

Highlighted link on a Canvas page that leads to Panopto Recordings Settings.

From the Panopto Recordings page in Canvas, select the Open in Panopto link in the top right corner.

Highlighted User Settings link on the Panopto browser.

From the Panopto browser, select your personal user icon in top right corner.
From the drop down menu, select User Settings.

Panopto Zoom User Settings page showing the setting for automatic import of meeting recordings.

In the Panopto browser User Settings tab, scroll down to Meeting Import Settings

Select the Zoom box
Select the Default Folder dropdown menu to choose the folder where recordings are to be saved.
(If your correct course name folder is showing, this step is complete.)
Click Save to confirm these options

NOTES:

Course Zoom meetings must be scheduled from the Zoom app in Canvas for the Panopto Zoom integration to work.

If you have not set up the Panopto Zoom integration, there is a process to transfer saved Zoom recordings to Panopto.
Use this guide from UW IT: Upload Zoom Recordings to Panopto.

Step 2. Recording in a Zoom meeting

Record meetings automatically
If you are planning to record all your class sessions from beginning to end, you can turn on automatic cloud recording for your Zoom sessions. This means the recording will start as soon as you launch your Zoom meeting without you or anyone else needing to hit "start recording."

However, it may result in creating some extra recordings if the Zoom meeting is launched by mistake outside of class hours.

You can turn on automatic recording when scheduling a new meeting or editing an existing meeting. Canvas Zoom integration and record in cloud setting.

When you are scheduling a meeting in Canvas, in meeting options:

1. Check Record the meeting automatically.
2. Make sure to also select In the cloud.

Record meetings manually

If your meetings are not set to record automatically, you can choose to record part, or all of a meeting:

Zoom control bar Recording button highlighted.

In Zoom controls, Select the Record button anytime during the meeting.

Zoom control bar with Pause and Stop Recording buttons highlighted.

Pause or Stop Recording the meeting at any time.

Ensure academic integrity and student privacy

If you or students engage in an off-topic or personal conversation that isn't appropriate for the full class to gain access to, use the Pause/Stop Recording button. Make sure to select the Resume Recording button to continue recording the meeting.

If an inappropriate section of the meeting does get recorded, you can use Panopto's simple editing tools to remove the section (or multiple sections) of the meeting recording.

Record meetings locally on your computer (separate from Panopto)

In addition to recording meetings to the cloud, it's possible to record meetings directly on your computer.

Even if you have the Panopto Zoom integration set up, local recordings to your computer will not be saved to Panopto.

Steps to record locally:

Zoom control bar highlighting Record options where a meeting is saved to the computer, or the cloud.

On the Zoom in-meeting controls, select Record.
Choose: Record on this Computer.

You can also set a meeting to automatically record to your local computer (instead of recording to the cloud), when you schedule a meeting in Canvas.

Zoom meeting scheduling interface highlighting the option to record the meeting automatically to a local computer.

In the Meeting Options section:

Select Record the meeting automatically.
Make sure to also select On the local computer.

By default, meetings that are recorded locally are saved to Documents in a folder named Zoom.

Recording locally

In this Zoom Training video, learn more about how to record a meeting to your computer.

Guide from Zoom: Enabling and starting local recordings