Universities
Make every lecture and learning moment, accessible, searchable, and reusable
Panopto turns course recordings, faculty expertise, and institutional knowledge into searchable, reusable learning assets—built into the LMS workflows your faculty and students already use.
Trusted by leading universities and institutions around the world
Designed for how universities teach, learn, and operate
Institutional knowledge
Preserve and share academic expertise across your institution
Universities generate enormous amounts of valuable academic content every day—from lectures and guest speakers to research presentations and faculty expertise. Panopto helps institutions organize and preserve that knowledge in a searchable video library students, faculty, and staff can access long after the moment has passed.
Lecture capture and review
Give students the flexibility to learn on their terms
When students can revisit lectures, search for exact explanations, and review complex material at their own pace, learning doesn’t stop at the end of class. Panopto makes recorded content a natural extension of every course—without adding steps for faculty.
Accessibility and compliance
Meet accessibility standards without a manual process
Automated captions and transcripts help universities scale accessibility support across courses, departments, and modalities. As accessibility expectations evolve, Panopto’s automated workflows reduce manual effort for faculty, instructional design teams, and IT
Faculty efficiency
Record once, teach every term
Faculty can reuse recorded lectures, demonstrations, and course content across sections, semesters, and learning formats—without rebuilding materials from scratch. Panopto fits inside existing LMS workflows so adoption isn’t a lift, and course prep time goes down.
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
Customer story
How the University of Washington built a 60,000-hour learning library
With 54,000 students and a fragmented mix of legacy tools, UW needed a unified platform that could serve every learner and integrate with Canvas and Zoom. After implementing Panopto, faculty and staff built an academic recording library that students rely on as a core study resource.
98%
Students said Panopto contributed to their learning
9 in 10
Students said Panopto helped to improve their grades
60K+
Hours of academic recordings made available
How leading institutions use Panopto
Resources for higher education
Frequently asked questions
How does Panopto support lecture capture across a large university?
Panopto automates lecture capture at scale—integrating with classroom AV systems so recordings start, stop, and publish to the LMS automatically, without requiring faculty to initiate or manage the process. Students access recordings inside their existing course environment from the moment class ends.
The University of Washington has accumulated more than 60,000 hours of academic recordings through Panopto over three years, based on outcomes reported by Tom Lewis, Director of Academic Experience Design & Delivery at the University of Washington. At that scale, automation and LMS integration are what make lecture capture a sustainable institutional practice rather than a per-course project.
How does Panopto help students use lecture recordings more effectively?
Panopto’s intelligent search indexes every spoken word, slide, and on-screen element across recordings—so students can search a specific term or topic and jump directly to the moment in a lecture where it was explained. Students don’t need to re-watch entire recordings to find what they’re studying; they navigate to the exact timestamp they need.
Panopto customers in higher education report that 9 of 10 students saw better grades and 7 of 10 improved knowledge retention after their institution adopted video as a learning resource, based on outcomes reported by Butler University, Northwest University, and KBTU. Searchable, navigable lecture recordings are a meaningful part of what makes that difference.
How does Panopto help universities manage ADA and accessibility compliance for video content?
Auto-captioning settings can be configured at the folder level, or at the system level as part of the recording workflow, so every new lecture can be captioned by default—without placing the burden on individual faculty. WCAG 2.1 AA documentation, Section 508 support, and VPAT documentation are available, and Panopto’s accessibility audit reporting gives institutions visibility into the caption status of their entire video library.
For institutions subject to ADA Title II, the EU Accessibility Act, or UK Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations, Panopto’s automated workflows can be enabled to make accessibility systemic rather than manual—reducing legal and reputational risk without requiring IT or faculty to manage captioning for each recording. Read more about accessibility here.
How does Panopto reduce the IT and EdTech support burden for managing video at scale?
Panopto’s LMS integration and automated capture workflows mean that once the platform is configured, faculty can create and publish content without requiring IT support for routine tasks. Centralized governance—folder-level permissions, role-based access, identity system integration—means administrators manage the library without managing individual videos.
Consistent workflows and built-in accessibility reduce the ticket volume that comes from tool sprawl and inconsistent practices across departments. For IT and EdTech teams supporting a large university with dozens of departments and hundreds of faculty, that operational simplification has a measurable impact on support load.
Does Panopto work with the LMS platforms universities already use?
Yes. Panopto integrates natively with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and D2L Brightspace via LTI-compliant embedding—so faculty can record, manage, and publish video directly from their course environment, and students access content inside the LMS without separate credentials or navigation. Panopto also integrates with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex for institutions that capture live sessions alongside scheduled lecture recordings. Read more about our integrations here.