Nicholas Laudato
PhD, Associate Director for Instructional Technology, Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education, University of Pittsburgh
“What captured our attention about Panopto Focus was the technical architecture of the product and its potential for the future, particularly its flexibility and scalability. An important example of this is its simple web-based interface that allows lecturers to edit their recorded presentations, making multiple versions that target selected topics, without modifying the original content. For instance, instead of providing students with a link to a two-hour recording, which few will actually view, the instructor can create an instructional sequence and embed it in a course management system—such as Blackboard—by providing links to multiple extracted recordings interspersed with learning objectives, readings, and activities. It can accomplish this without the cost or cognitive overhead of high-end video editing applications, freeing the instructor from dependence on specialized technologists. Panopto has the potential to do for streaming rich media content what Blackboard did for course web pages, that is, make it available to all faculty, regardless of their level of technical sophistication.”

Sue Alman
PhD, Director of Distance Education, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
“We’ve been a very satisfied user of Panopto Focus for over a year now. The system is very capable and their (Panopto’s) support has been exemplary. Our collaboration with Panopto has yielded real innovations in their product line and dramatically reduced our implementation costs in the process.”

Jeff Muday
Director of Instructional Technology, Wake Forest University
“We began testing Panopto Focus 2.0 in a fairly limited scope and within weeks expanded the use of the product among faculty and staff. Key to this was the product's extraordinarily simple set-up and intuitive user interface. Instructors were recording sessions on their own with only a brief amount of training. ”

Chad J. DeWolf
Technology Integration Support Specialist, Clarke County School District
“With Panopto Focus, I am literally visiting as many classrooms [as possible] in our district to capture "best practices". Our teachers will be able to learn from one another with a simple click of the mouse! It really is that simple! ”

William Claxton
Founder / Technical Director, Iterate, Inc.
“…Panopto's approach inherently scales to synchronization of many data inputs which might include chats, instant messaging, Twitter feeds, pointer coordinates, assessment data, audience response data, and of course audio, video and display graphics. In fact, one of the feedbacks we see from clients is delight that they can use Panopto to record from two screens at once (e.g.- PowerPoint and Bloomberg terminal). The final output is not a merged and flattened video file, but a set of separate standards-based data streams which can be rendered in a variety of ways using player skins. This is way better than a flattened video file, and is more flexible to device and bandwidth constraints.”

Bill Connaghan
Technology Services Coordinator, Cornwall-Lebanon School District
“Panopto Focus is proving to be a very useful platform for us to quickly and reliably capture course content for students and staff throughout our school district. We are in the beginning stages of using the system, but its ease of use and flexibility make it a natural solution for us.”