Panopto: a new video application for VU

If you used a video of a colleague who no longer works at the VU and you had permission to use this video, the ownership of the video can be changed. For privacy reasons, permission from your manager is required.

An online form will soon be available that you can use to change the ownership of videos. For now, you can contact the project team via the email address.

Videos posted on Kaltura are now migrated to Panopto. 

• Since 10 June, it is no longer possible to create videos in Kaltura. However, you can still watch videos on Kaltura until the end of the academic year.
• After the 2023/2024 academic year, Kaltura will go offline.

Most Kaltura videos are migrated, but not all videos will be migrated. Old non-viewed material will be deleted or archived. See the flow charts Kaltura and Mediasite for this. 

Please note: YouTube videos embedded in Kaltura are not migrated. You need to replace these yourself. Read how to embed Youtube video in Panopto

The migration of Mediasite videos to Panopto is completed.

• No new videos can be placed on Mediasite anymore. However, you can still watch Mediasite videos.
• In August, Canvas links to Mediasite videos will be automatically converted to the new Panopto link. This will not affect your education.
• After the links in Canvas are converted, Mediasite will go offline. This will be around 1 september.

Instructions can be found in several places:

• In Pantopto In the Get Started with Panopto folder.
• In Canvas on the pages VU Tools for Education in Canvas or Getting To Know Canvas for Teachers. The information is the same.
• There is also a website where all manuals and video tutorials about Panopto are available. To do this, go to the support page.

You can download your videos on Kaltura by following these instructions. In Canvas, only the original video format (source file) is available for downloading, which will usually be an mp4. On Kaltura, there are more video formats available to choose from.

Follow these instructions to upload the video. Click here to go to the instructions to upload a video in Panopto.

For dualstream videos, here is a guide on how to download them. Click here to go to the instructions for dualstream videos.

Links to Kaltura and Mediasite videos in documents will continue to work until the video applications go offline. 

For Mediasite videos, this is until 1 July. For Kaltura videos until the end of 2024. If you want to continue using relevant document, you can place the new Panopto links in the documents yourself.

When embedded videos from Kaltura or Mediasite are used on websites other than Canvas, these videos will no longer work after Kaltura or Mediasite are offline. You can replace the Kaltura or Mediasite link with Panopto's new link. 

Videos embedded in Canvas are converted to the new Panopto link.

Mediasite videos will remain visible until 1 July. Kaltura videos will remain visible until the end of the academic year.

Video Quizzes in Kaltura cannot be migrated to Panopto. In Panopto, you can recreate the quiz. See the instructions here.

If you need help creating quizzes in Panopto, please contact the project team.

Students can not use Panopto to create and save videos. Are you a student and do you currently have a student folder on Kaltura that contains videos? These videos will not be migrated to Panopto. Go directly to Panopto for students.

Do you want students to create videos for an assignment in Canvas? Then check out VU Tools for Education Panopto page. There you will find an instruction.

For questions, please contact your faculty ICT support or the project team at panopto.soz@vu.nl