New hires, students, and employees have something in common: the knowledge they need already exists. It’s in a lecture, a training session, or a recorded conversation your organization captured. But is that knowledge easy to find? And are they learning effectively with it?
Panopto’s newest capabilities, Panopto Folio, Panopto AI Search, and Panopto MCP Server, are built to do just that.
How Panopto is evolving
For twenty years, Panopto has helped organizations capture, manage, and share trusted expertise through video. These new capabilities extend that foundation, making the knowledge you’ve captured easier to find, more useful to learn from, and available in the AI tools your organization already uses.
Capturing knowledge is just the beginning
For decades, organizations have measured the value of video by how much expertise they capture and preserve. The return on that investment shows up as recorded lectures, logged training, and documented institutional knowledge.
Even with that value established, friction remains when it comes to putting that knowledge to work. Our research backs this up: students still struggle to locate a specific topic within a video, and most L&D leaders report being able to search less than half of their recordings.
A new way to make captured expertise work harder
Panopto’s newest capabilities are built to ease that friction, turning years of captured expertise into resources people can find, learn from, and use immediately.
Studying from what’s already been taught
Rewatching a lecture only goes so far in building the confidence needed for an exam or a certification, and creating flashcards or practice questions from scratch takes time few learners have.
Turning that material into something learners can actively study with changes the equation. When they can question, quiz, and review it, passive watching becomes practice, and practice builds confidence.
Spending less time searching and more time learning
People have grown accustomed to asking a question and receiving a direct answer. Yet, most search capabilities return another list to search.
This limitation slows troubleshooting, strains subject matter experts, and leaves proven answers buried in files. A faster path from question to answer protects everyone’s time and lets a growing library become a genuine advantage.
That same speed helps faculty efficiently revisit how they taught a concept in a previous semester or quickly surface the right recording for accreditation processes. It also gives students a productive way to revisit what they were taught, whether they’re studying for an exam or reviewing a concept.
Meeting people inside the AI tools they already use
Organizations are rapidly adopting AI tools, and now people spend a meaningful share of their day working inside AI assistants. But those tools can only answer with what’s publicly available.
MCP Server extends trusted organizational knowledge into those approved AI tools, while keeping existing permissions and governance intact. As a result, people get more value from both investments, the AI tools and the library connected to them.
The high cost of hard-to-reach knowledge
When trusted expertise is difficult to find, the effects ripple well past a frustrating search bar. Employees interrupt colleagues and subject matter experts to ask questions already answered and documented in video. When someone needs to troubleshoot a problem or follow a procedure, teams lose the consistency that comes from working from the same trusted source. Students turn to general-purpose AI tools that pull answers from the open internet instead of the material their instructors actually taught.
As libraries grow larger and more valuable, this friction grows with them. A bigger library should mean more answers within reach, not more time spent searching for them. The solution is making the knowledge inside those vast, valuable libraries accessible and usable when it’s most needed.
Captured knowledge becomes everyday value
Whether it’s turning a lecture into a study session, replacing a search with a direct answer, or reaching trusted expertise from inside an AI assistant, the goal is the same. The knowledge your organization has captured can keep working for the people who need it, long after the recording stops.
Request a demo to explore what Folio, AI Search, and MCP Server can do for your organization.
