Deakin’s video sharing has gotten an upgrade with easy-to-use Panopto
From Monday 23 October 2023, Panopto has now replaced DeakinAir as Deakin’s video-sharing platform, ready for upcoming study periods.
You’ll use Panopto to view videos shared by your teaching staff as well as upload and share your own videos with fellow students or for assessment tasks. Students have already been saying it’s ‘been fantastic’ and is ‘easy to use’.
What does this mean for me?
Videos will continue to be available and shared in the places you’re used to, like your unit sites, without you needing to change anything.
Panopto will have all the features DeakinAir did and more.
- You can pause, rewind and control the video playback speed as you’re used to with other modern video platforms.
- Text transcripts are automatically available for all videos. You can also search for keywords in the transcript, so it’ll be easier than ever to pick back up where you left off or find a specific topic or section of a recording.
- You can download videos for offline viewing to access them on the go or without an internet connection. Perfect for taking one student’s advice to ‘chuck it on while going for a walk’.
Your teaching staff will also have access to a number of features they can choose to activate for your unit’s videos, such as translations of transcripts into other languages, leaving comments and questions, completing quizzes or submitting assessments. Your Unit Chair or teaching staff will let you know if these are relevant to you, or you can ask them if you have any questions.
What happens to existing videos?
Never fear, any existing videos* you or your teaching staff uploaded using DeakinAir are safe and sound and are currently in the process of being moved across to Panopto for you automatically, with no action needed on your part.
DeakinAir will also remain available in a read-only mode to view existing—but not upload new—videos until mid-next year, when it will be permanently retired.
*This applies to all videos uploaded or viewed after July 2021. If you have a video from before that date, or a video that hasn’t yet been moved, you would like to have copied across, please contact IT Help for assistance.
Will this impact how I view my lecture or learning activity recordings?
Online lecture recordings
If you have a lecture or learning activity that was held online and recorded, the recording will be available through Panopto going forward.
On-campus lecture recordings
Recordings of lectures held on-campus will continue to be handled using Deakin Video until part way through next year, 2024. We’ll have further updates on upcoming changes for you then.
Find out more
Find out more details, including tutorials on how to access, interact with, create and edit videos in Panopto on the Panopto webpage.