Online programs
Consistent, scalable course delivery across every section and term
Panopto turns course recordings and faculty expertise into searchable, reusable learning assets—embedded directly in the LMS workflows your programs already run on.
Trusted by leading universities and institutions around the world
Built for scalable online learning programs
Learner engagement and persistence
Turn recorded lecture into a learning resource students actually use
A lecture recording is only useful if students can find what they need inside it. Panopto makes every word of every recording searchable—so students locate the exact explanation they need without scrubbing through an hour of video. Engagement goes up because the content is actually usable.
Accessibility and compliance
Accessibility that keeps pace with your program’s growth
As enrollment scales, accessibility demands scale with it. Panopto automatically generates captions and transcripts across courses and sections—giving accessibility and instructional support teams centralized oversight without creating a growing backlog of manual remediation work
Content reuse and program scalability
Grow enrollment without growing production overhead
As programs scale, re-recording content each term becomes the bottleneck. Panopto gives instructional teams a governed library where content is recorded once, versioned, and reused across sections and formats—so program quality stays consistent whether you’re running ten sections or a hundred.
Seamlessly integrate with your systems
Built to fit your existing stack—not replace it. Deep integrations with your LMS, collaboration tools, and classroom AV systems mean Panopto works the way your campus already does.
Canvas by Instructure
Learning management system
Moodle
Learning management system
D2L Brightspace
Learning management system
Blackboard
Learning management system
Zoom
Collaboration
Microsoft Teams
Collaboration
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Frequently asked questions
How does Panopto help online programs deliver consistent course quality at scale?
Panopto gives online programs a governed video library where course content is recorded, organized by course and term, and delivered consistently to students across sections—without requiring faculty to re-record the same material every semester.
Online programs operate at a scale where instructional consistency is a quality and competitive requirement, not just a convenience. When content is recorded once and managed centrally, programs can maintain the same instructional standard across 10 sections or 100—and update it once when something changes rather than coordinating updates across individual instructors.
How does Panopto support asynchronous learning for online students?
Panopto’s searchable, captioned recordings give online students the flexibility to learn at their own pace—reviewing material at the moment of need, searching for specific explanations, and accessing content across devices without being tied to a live session.
Panopto customers in higher education report a 9x increase in video adoption due to ease of use, based on outcomes reported across multiple institutions. When video content is genuinely easy to navigate and search, students engage with it more actively—and the investment in course video delivers more learning value.
How does Panopto help online programs manage accessibility requirements?
Auto-captioning settings can be configured at the folder level, or at the system level as part of the recording workflow, ensuring new course content is accessible by default—without adding steps for instructors or instructional designers. Transcript downloads and multilingual search support students who learn better through reading or who access content in languages other than the original recording.
For online programs operating under the same accessibility standards as their parent institution—including WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508—Panopto’s automated workflows make compliance manageable at scale rather than dependent on per-video manual effort. Read more about accessibility here.
Can Panopto reduce the content creation overhead for online program teams?
Yes. Panopto’s AI-powered tools—including automatic captioning, chapter generation, and content editing—reduce the time it takes to create and maintain course video. The AI Video Studio add-on allows instructional designers and faculty to go from a script or prompt to a finished video without a camera setup or production team, making it practical to create structured course content at a pace that keeps up with enrollment growth.
Panopto customers report a 20% reduction in content creation costs and a 75%+ reduction in video course creation time, based on outcomes reported by higher education customers. For online programs where content volume scales with enrollment, those efficiencies compound significantly as programs grow. Read more about content creation here.
Does Panopto integrate with the LMS platforms online programs use?
Yes. Panopto integrates natively with Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle, and others via LTI-compliant embedding—so faculty can manage video directly within the course environment and students can access content inside the LMS without navigating a separate platform. Grade passback for in-video assessments flows into the LMS gradebook where the integration supports it.
For online programs that rely heavily on Zoom or Microsoft Teams for synchronous sessions, Panopto captures those recordings automatically and publishes them to the course library—captioned and searchable—so students who missed a live session can access it in the LMS alongside the rest of their course content. Read more about our integrations here.