Panopto desktop recorder

Find out how to download and use the Panopto desktop recorder.

Panopto desktop recorder

You can download the Panopto desktop recorder to your personal computer or access it from a UWE Bristol computer.

 

Download the Panopto desktop recorder

You can download the Panopto recorder from the Panopto Cloud.

Minimum system requirements

Download the Panopto for Windows recorder

1. Access the Panopto Cloud
2. Click create.
3. Click Panopto for Windows.
4. Select the appropriate download option and follow the on-screen instructions.

Screenshot showing step 2: create button. Screenshot showing step 3: Panopto for Windows

Alternatives to the desktop recorder

If you can’t download the Panopto recorder, you can use the Panopto Capture browser recorder.

If you also can’t use Panopto Capture:

  • go to a  computer lab/room on campus to make your recording
  • use an alternative software to create an MP4 recording and upload it to Panopto
  • try updating your operating system

Open the Panopto desktop recorder

Open from your desktop

  1. Navigate to Panopto on the desktop.
  2. Click sign in.
  3. Click sign in (keep the drop-down menu as Blackboard).

Screenshot showing step 2: sign in to Panopto.

Screenshot showing step 3: sign in to Panopto. Keep Blackboard in drop-down menu.

Open from the Panopto cloud

  1. Go to the Panopto cloud.
  2. Click create.
  3. Click Panopto for Windows (Record in Application)
  4. If required, click launch/open Panopto.
  5. If required, click allow/open Panopto recorder.

Screenshot showing step 2: create button.

Screenshot showing step 3: Panopto for Windows

Guidance for Mac users

See Panopto's how-to video: Panopto for Mac

Recording for assessments

If you are creating your recording for an assessment, you need to submit it using the Panopto student submission option in Blackboard. 

Make a recording using the desktop recorder

Before you record

  • Check that the Panopto recorder is installed on the computer you want to record on. Find out how to download Panopto recorder.
  • If you’re sharing a PC, check the correct person is logged into the recorder (user is shown top right of the recorder).
  • PowerPoint presentations: You must save the file to the desktop. Your recording may fail to upload if you open a PowerPoint file from any other location on the PC.

Record

  1. Select the My Folder option for the folder to be recorded to.
  2. Edit the recording name as appropriate (keep the date and time information in your session name to help identify recordings).
  3. Select your video and audio sources (primary sources). Set quality to standard.
  4. Select your recording options (secondary sources).
  5. Open a PowerPoint presentation if you’re using one. You must save the file to the desktop. Your recording may fail to upload if you open a PowerPoint file from any other location on the PC.
  6. Click record.

  7. Stop recording by clicking the stop button.

Screenshot showing Panopto desktop recorder steps 1 to 6.

Screenshot showing step 7, record button.

8. Allow the recording to upload. 

Screenshot showing uploading recording progress.

Screenshot showing uploaded file status.

When you stop recording and have uploaded the file, you’ll see the manage recordings tab. You can now log off/sign out of the computer. Do not shut down the computer as this will delay the processing of your recording.

The recording will now be accessible on the Panopto cloud.