Do-It-Yourself Recording and Livestreaming in Classrooms with Panopto

Most central classrooms offer the ability to record your lectures and stream them live from the classroom's internal PC.

Did you know?

As of Fall 2025, nearly all UBs centrally scheduled classrooms have the technology to automatically record and livestream your class or event. See the complete list of classrooms. In these rooms you can even use the internal PC for a Zoom meeting and simultaneously record the class to Panopto with automated recording.

Instructions

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Before you get to the classroom

Connect your UB Learns course to Panopto so you have a Panopto cloud folder where you can save your recordings that is also accessible to your students. If you want to use a different Panopto cloud folder for your videos, make sure the course viewer group for the current semester has permission to that folder.

In the classroom

Note: If you have virtual guests hosted by Zoom, use the recording features in that app instead, as Panopto cannot capture both the physical classroom and your virtual guests.

  1. Unlock the teaching station.   
  2. Using the internal PC, launch Panopto and sign in.
  3. At the top of the Panopto app, under Session Settings, choose the Panopto cloud folder where you want the recording saved and give the recording a name
  4. Under Primary Input, select your classroom's camera and microphone(s).
    • You will know the correct sources are chosen if you see the classroom in the camera preview and see the audio level bouncing when you speak into the microphone.              
  5. Under Secondary Sources leave Capture PowerPoint and Capture Main Screen checked.
  6. Classrooms will have one of the following styles of microphone:
    • A mic mounted on the teaching station that turns on automatically when the teaching station is turned on. Be sure this mic shows as on or unmuted on the touchscreen panel. This embedded mic can be muted or unmuted using the touchscreen panel.
    • A ceiling mic, mounted flush with the ceiling tiles, that turns on automatically when the teaching station is turned on. Be sure this mic shows as on or unmuted on the touchscreen panel.
    • Larger rooms have a clip-on lapel mic. For those rooms, open the microphone drawer using the touchscreen panel, power the mic on, check the battery level and clip the mic close to your mouth.
  7. You can adjust the camera angle using Camera Control on the touchscreen.
  8. Hit Record in the Panopto app. 
  9. Minimize Panopto and begin teaching.
  10. When finished, maximize Panopto and hit Stop and Done.
  11. Wait for the video to upload completely before signing out.

Livestream from Panopto

You can livestream to your students or audience from Panopto. Before you start recording:

  1. Check the box that says Webcast.
  2. Be sure to choose a cloud folder where your students or audience have permission to access the content.
  3. Once you start recording the livestream will begin and it will appear in the Panopto cloud folder for viewers to watch.
    • You can copy the webcast link from the bottom of the Panopto screen and send it out.
    • You can also setup your webcast ahead of time and join the session from Panopto in the classroom.

Accessibility

Ideally, all content produced for students should include text captions for those using screen readers or other assistive technology. Panopto cannot provide live captions while streaming but in most cases captions will be added to the recording automatically after the live stream ends. Please see Adding Captions to Videos in Panopto.

If a student in your class requires captions as a disability accommodation, have the student contact the Office of Accessibility Resources and UBIT can order human-generated captions for your course recordings.

See also

Still need help?

Contact the UBIT Help Center.