Recordings and folders can be shared in many ways. It is important to know who can view your content, who can edit it, and how to change those permissions.
Operating System: All
Applies To: UB faculty, staff and students
Last Updated: May 11, 2022
There are five viewer permission levels with increasing levels of visibility:
You can edit Share settings at the folder or individual recording level.
Click the Share icon for a recording or folder to open its Settings > Share page.
The share icon appears in different places on different screens, but is always shaped like a less than symbol and will be labeled “Share” if you hover over it.
To change the viewer permission level:
By default, Panopto recordings “inherit” — or have the same Share settings — as the folder in which they are stored. If a recording or folder inherits permissions from a folder above it, you may need to disable the inheritance to adjust the viewer permissions or add collaborators.
Under People and groups, start typing the name (or UBIT name) of the person, course, or group with whom you want to share the video. A list of suggested users containing that name or word will appear, select the correct person or group from this list.
You can share recordings saved in a course folder from a previous semester with students this semester. Under People and groups add the viewer group for the current semester.
After you connect a UB Learns course to Panopto we recommend adding yourself as a creator in the course folder in Panopto. This keeps you from losing access to the folder when the UB Learns course is archived.
You can remove someone’s access to view or edit a recording or folder.
Creator access allows someone to create, delete, or edit the recordings in a folder.
Creator permissions cannot be assigned at the individual recording level, they can only be assigned at the folder level. Therefore, grant a user Creator access to the folder in which the shared video is saved.
If your department hosts events, trainings or other recordings to which several people should have creator access, UBIT is happy to create a folder for you. Once a folder is in Panopto, anyone with creator permissions can add other people as needed.
Panopto allows people to create their own user groups making it easier to share folders with larger groups of people.
Contact the UBIT Help Center.