Engaging Learners Through Video
Using Video for Assessment
Interactive Components of Panopto
Syllabus Language

Engaging Learners Through Video

Video as another means of engagement (beyond text) for class learning activities and assignments

Overview

Panopto is a video capture tool that allows faculty to create an added means of engagement for their students beyond using text by offering video options. With the Panopto recording tool, your students can engage in learning activities and assignments through video. Students can share their own Panopto video recordings they make for a class activity with faculty and/or their peers. When you provide optional ways for students to connect and interact with content, you may build their interest in the topic.

Benefits

Why provide multiple ways for your students to engage and interact in your course activities and assignments, for example, by adding video recording options? In the UDL framework, this concept is referred to as multiple means of Engagement. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. The UDL framework is based on the understanding that learners vary in how they are motivated to learn and differ in ways they perceive and comprehend information, among other key concepts. Supporting student engagement is important because active participation is key to learning. A student’s engagement supports affective learning networks by boosting positive feelings towards their learning experience, and ultimately, the effectiveness of instruction. When you provide multiple ways to perceive and comprehend the instructional materials you share in class, you support students’ needs for various formats of content to increase their understanding of the concepts.

Learners differ in the ways in which they can be engaged or motivated to learn.  Faculty can support this variability by:

Providing choices to generate a sense of autonomy
Creating options and variety to reduce learner anxiety

Learners differ in the ways that they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them. Faculty can support learner variability by:

Offering alternative materials to engage in an activity or lessons, such as reading materials or watching or creating videos.
Offering learners access to information in a variety of formats.

Using the Panopto recording tool, faculty can increase student engagement and comprehension by:

Offering optional ways for students to engage in the course activities and assignments

Giving learners choice and autonomy in such things as tools used, methods of reflection, and self-assessment.
Adding a communication method between student peers and faculty
Providing their students feedback on activities and assignments
Adding alternative instructional materials
Utilizing the automatic captions in Panopto.

How to Get Started

There are two ways to get started using Panopto to initialize your account before you can start uploading or recording videos.

You can login directly to the Panopto external website (Links to an external site) to initialize your account in Panopto. Instructors can access their Panopto account externally or via any of their Canvas courses by enabling the Panopto Recordings link on their course menu.

Refer to our Panopto Getting Started guide.

Important:

Think about where you can add videos to engage your learners. Add a short video if there is a concept that needs to be emphasized or a common point of confusion.

Panopto provides the option to enable automatic captions, although not 100% accurate it is available. Check for accuracy in the captions provided. Provide captions and transcripts for all web videos and transcripts for all audio recordings or podcasts. Encourage your students to provide accurate captions and transcripts for all posted videos.

Additional Resources:

Panopto - Getting Started for Students
Universal Design for Learning Self-paced Resources
Panopto Accessible Video
Panopto Faculty User Guide
Panopto Student User Guide

Using Video for Assessment

Panopto, our campus video platform is often used by instructors and students to record, upload and share video. Our Panopto integration in Canvas makes it easier for students to access recorded video from any Canvas course. But Panopto also offers two main assessment options:

Video Assignments – create an assignment folder in Panopto for your Canvas course and create an Assignment that allows students to submit an online text entry submission. Students will be able to record a video as part of their submission.
Video Quizzes – use Panopto’s editor to add quiz questions at specific points in the video. As students watch the video they will see quiz questions display in an embedded window. Create an associated Canvas Assignment to link video quiz scores to Canvas grades.

Video Assignments

In Canvas you can use the Assignments and Discussions feature to create a video assignment where students submit a video recording(s) that you can view and grade. In addition, video can be shared with peers for peer assessment. Some examples of video assignments include:

Self-introduction videos for an initial course discussion
Project presentations – individual or group
Public speaking – recording speech presentations
Language learning assignments
Interview recordings
Teach a concept
Self-assessment videos
Video tours related to a course topic/concept
Video presentation for a written assignment

Benefits of Video Based Assignments

There are several key benefits of using video-based assessment:

Provide personalized feedback – instructors and learners can use the built-in comments feature to provide time-stamped feedback at specific points of a video.
Accommodating different learning styles – address learners’ different learning styles by providing video assessment to evaluate students that have different strengths.
Learner engagement – video provides a more interactive way of learning as learners can engage more with video through visuals and non-verbal cues that text-only content doesn’t provide.
Experiential Learning – across different disciplines video offers learners the ability to practice what they are learning. Learners can learn about a specific subject using video which provides the student both the practical and theoretical knowledge about the concept(s).
Longer Retention – Research suggests that the human brain processes visual information better than verbal or written information, thus when learners receive information in a combination of text, visuals and sounds it is easier for the learner to retain.
Assess soft skills – through a video presentation instructors can observe a learner’s approach and communication style and other traits relevant to the subject matter of the course.
Learner investment – learners may be more invested in the activity or assignment as they are presenting themselves with their work.
Learners can practice and revise – In language and communication disciplines for example, video provides learners the ability to practice and revise as they record a video for related assignments. Repetition and revision of video allows learners to improve their learning.
May improve speed of grading student work - If the feedback instructors provide to learners is also video based, this may reduce the amount of time it takes to grade the assignment and the video based feedback establishes a more personal connection with learners.

Create Video Assignment with Canvas

There are two main steps to set up a Panopto video assignment using the Canvas Assignments feature:

Create an "Assignment Folder” in your Panopto course folder – this is the folder that students will select when they are ready to record or upload their Panopto video for the assignment.
Create the Canvas video assignment - Select the “Text Entry” submission type to provide students the ability to embed their Panopto video from the Rich Content Editor using the Panopto plugin.

Please refer to the guide How to Create a Video Assignment in Canvas for complete steps.

The process for students to submit a video assignment in Canvas is the same as with other Canvas assignments. Students will follow the steps detailed in the guide How to Submit a Video Assignment in Canvas to submit their video recording.

Create Video Assignment with Discussion

To setup a Panopto video discussion assignment you will also follow two main steps:

1. Create an "Assignment Folder” in your Panopto course folder – this is the folder that students will select when they are ready to record or upload their Panopto video for the discussion.
2. Create the Canvas Discussion – Using the Discussions feature of your course, create a new Discussion. Discussions provide a text entry box (Rich Content Editor) students will use to embed their video using the Panopto plugin.

Related Resources:

Video Quizzes

You can add quiz questions throughout a video recording to assess student comprehension of course concepts. Video quizzes also allow students to review course material in preparation for major exams.

Panopto allows instructors to insert questions at different points of a video. As students watch a video, the embedded question will display and the video will resume playback after the student answers the question. Students also receive instant feedback on their submitted answers.

To add a quiz to a Panopto video you will complete two main steps:

Add quiz questions to Panopto video using the Panopto editor - Use the timeline in the video editor to indicate the point in the video where you wish to add your quiz question(s). You can add True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Select and Fill in The Blank questions to a video.
Select the options for your quiz – Options include whether you allow learners to retake the quiz, display quiz grade at completion of quiz, and allow review of correct answers and explanations.
Create the Canvas Assignment and Embed Your Panopto Video Quiz – To allow Canvas to provide sync learners’ quiz scores in the Canvas Gradebook create a Canvas Assignment and use the Panopto Integration to insert your Panopto Video Quiz.

Related Resources

Please refer to the following resources for complete steps to setup your Panopto Video Quiz:

Interactive Components of Panopto

Panopto offers an interactive component to your course for peer-to-peer and teacher-to-peer communication. For an alternative to written discussion boards, try offering an option to add a video discussion response using the Panopto video capture tool in Canvas.

Overview

Panopto is a video capture tool that allows faculty to create an added means of engagement for their students beyond using text by offering video options. With the Panopto recording tool, your students can engage in learning activities and assignments through video. Students can share their own Panopto video recordings they make for a class activity with faculty and/or their peers. When you provide optional ways for students to connect and interact with content, you may build their interest in the topic.

Benefits

Why provide multiple ways for your students to engage and interact in your course activities and assignments, for example, by adding video recording options? In the UDL framework, this concept is referred to as multiple means of Engagement. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. The UDL framework is based on the understanding that learners vary in how they are motivated to learn and differ in ways they perceive and comprehend information, among other key concepts. Supporting student engagement is important because active participation is key to learning. A student’s engagement supports affective learning networks by boosting positive feelings towards their learning experience, and ultimately, the effectiveness of instruction. When you provide multiple ways to perceive and comprehend the instructional materials you share in class, you support students’ needs for various formats of content to increase their understanding of the concepts.

Learners differ in the ways in which they can be engaged or motivated to learn.  Faculty can support this variability by:

Providing choices to generate a sense of autonomy
Creating options and variety to reduce learner anxiety

Learners differ in the ways that they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them. Faculty can support learner variability by:

Offering alternative materials to engage in an activity or lessons, such as reading materials or watching or creating videos.
Offering learners access to information in a variety of formats.

Using the Panopto recording tool, faculty can increase student engagement and comprehension by:

Offering optional ways for students to engage in the course activities and assignments

Giving learners choice and autonomy in such things as tools used, methods of reflection, and self-assessment.
Adding a communication method between student peers and faculty
Providing their students feedback on activities and assignments
Adding alternative instructional materials
Utilizing the automatic captions in Panopto.

How to Get Started

There are two ways to get started using Panopto to initialize your account before you can start uploading or recording videos.

You can login directly to the Panopto external website (Links to an external site) to initialize your account in Panopto. Instructors can access their Panopto account externally or via any of their Canvas courses by enabling the Panopto Recordings link on their course menu.

Refer to our Panopto Getting Started guide.

Important:

Think about where you can add videos to engage your learners. Add a short video if there is a concept that needs to be emphasized or a common point of confusion.

Panopto provides the option to enable automatic captions, although not 100% accurate it is available. Check for accuracy in the captions provided. Provide captions and transcripts for all web videos and transcripts for all audio recordings or podcasts.

Additional Resources

Syllabus Language for Your Students

If you would like to include language in your syllabus about your use of Panopto in your class this semester, you are welcome to use the following statement:

"This class is participating in a new video tool here at Sac State, called Panopto. That means the videos you watch for this class are hosted within Panopto, rather than Mediasite, YouTube, Vimeo, or other places where you may have encountered videos in other classes.

There are a lot of resources from the Panopto website that should help you use Panopto if you're having questions about using it:

- Enable access to the Panopto recordings - Before accessing any videos in a class, click the "Panopto Recordings" link in the course to set your permission to view videos.
- Viewing a Video
- Taking a Quiz
- How to Submit a Video Assignment in Canvas

If these resources don't answer your questions, you can reach out to me, but all Sac State students using Panopto can also contact the Information Resources and Technology (IRT) department and open a service ticket to get help."

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