This article is for Faculty who want to have easy and discreet access to their Panopto video accounts without the hassle of enabling/disabling the Panopto Video Course Navigation link every time in Canvas.
Article Overview
1. Make Panopto Available in Course Navigation
1.1. Navigate to Settings
The Settings tab can be found in the Course Navigation to the left in Canvas.
1.2. Select Navigation from the Top
The Navigation menu allows Faculty to organize and enable/disable applications available in Canvas.
1.3. Select the three dot kebab to the Right of the Panopto Video Link and Choose Enable.
Additionally, Faculty can click and drag to move any item in either the enabled or disabled list of applications.
1.4. Scroll to the Bottom and Select Save to Update Your Course Settings
2. Access Your Panopto Account
2.1. Select the Panopto Video Link from Course Navigation
2.2. Choose the Redirect Link in the Upper Right-hand Corner in Panopto
By default, Panopto opens up for you in a frame inside your Canvas course. This is different form Blackboard, where selecting your content area link allowed you to launch into a new tab to access your Panopto account. In Canvas, Faculty must select the redirect link (diagonal arrow in a box) at upper right to access their full csueb.hosted panopto account.
Selecting the redirect link (from the (1) Panopto Video tab with red CSUEB logo) opens a new browser tab (2) green Panopto Logo with the name of your course.
2.3. Select and Copy the Entire URL from Your Panopto Browser Tab
Once in your Panopto account (the browser tab with the green logo), you must (1) select and (2) copy the entire URL. You can paste the copied URL into a blank document or note as a reference (see Step 2.4) or you can use it immediately while it is in your clip board.
2.4. Paste Your URL into a Blank Doc
In the screenshot below, I have pasted my full csueastbay.hosted.panopto.com URL into a Google Doc.
You can close the Panopto browser tab by selecting the (x) on it if you like at this point.
3. Disable Panopto from Canvas Settings
3.1. Select the CSUEB Red Logo Canvas Tab
3.2. Choose Settings from Course Navigation
3.3. Select Navigation from the Top
3.4. Find Panopto Video and Disable it
Select the three-dot kebab and choose Disable.
3.5. Scroll to the Bottom and Select Save to Update Course Settings
4. Create an Unpublished Module
4.1. Select Modules from Course Navigation
4.2. Choose the + Module Button and Create a Panopto Module
First select + Module. Next, you can name it "Panopto Content Area" in memory of Blackboard. Lastly, select Add Module.
5. Create a Page for Your Panopto csueb.hosted URL
5.1. Scroll to the Bottom and Select the + Icon
5.2. Choose Page from the Add Drop-down Menu
5.3. Choose [Create Page], Name it, then Select Add Item
![Choose [Create Page], Name it, then Select Add Item](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/007/484/866/original/72f911ae-c8c6-4fa3-83e5-8d3a8fe08982.png)
5.4. Select the Name of the Page to Edit
Notice the circles with slashes through them on the right. These items: the Module and page are to remain unpublished, so only you as faculty will have access to your full Panopto account.
5.5. Choose Edit
5.6. Paste Your Panopto URL into the Rich Content Editor
5.7. Scroll Down and Choose Save
Do not choose Save & Publish, or your students will be able to access all the videos contained in the course's main folder.
5.8. Test Your Link
5.9. The Link Opens Your Panopto Account in a New Tab
Inside your full Panopto account space, you are able to select videos to delete, move, or share as well as edit and update sharing permissions on individual videos and whole folders.
6. Check Student View for Availability
6.1. Navigate Back to Your Canvas Browser Tab
You can close out your Panopto video browser tab if you like by select the (x) on it.
6.2. Select Modules from Course Navigation
6.3. Choose Student View from the Upper Right Corner
6.4. Scroll Through to Check for Your "Panopto Content Module"
I kept mine at the very bottom of my modules area and it is undetectable to students.
6.5. Select Leave Student View
Look at the same page orientation below (scrolled to the very bottom) after leaving student view.
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