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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/panopto-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/panopto-profile/alternatives/) # Panopto User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 78 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.6/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 49 reviews (63%) - 4 stars: 22 reviews (28%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 2 reviews (3%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (1%) ### Most mentioned pros - Video intergration works well as well as the image and photo management. - I mostly utilize Panopto for recording audio over video as part of course presentations, and I've found it incredibly easy to use. - Good value for money! ### Most mentioned cons - Hyflex option isn't the best if you wanted to do an in-person lecture with interactions from remote participants - It can be costly for smaller companies that pay per single user. - The cost can be prohibitive if you are a small user base. ## Panopto customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 78 (page 1). ### Simple but Powerful Video Capture and Video Management Tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We primarily use Panopto for lecture capture and distance learning. Using Panopto for training and meeting recordings is something that we are just starting to leverage. Having a place to centrally store, share and search through videos has been a great value to our institution. Our integration with Panopto to D2L has provided a simple solution for instructors and students to interact 'face-to-face', even if they are located around the world. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Panopto integrates with our LMS, D2L quite well. It makes the process very simple for our instructors and students to record and watch videos. It does not require any plugins or software to watch videos, as they load up in a web browser. The videos work on mobile and embed easily in courses or on websites. We also enjoy the easy sharing of videos and simplified management in the web portal. #### Cons The Panopto Recorder software can be a little bit buggy and simplified. It could use a more modern look and feel. The software does give our end users some trouble - but not the service or website itself. If a student or instructor has an issue with the software, luckily any .mp4 video file can be easily uploaded to Panopto. --- ### Excellent Security, UI, and file management - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: John P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Panopto's integration with our university's LMS is vital to keeping our video lectures secure, but also easily accessible to viewers who are enrolled in a course. The UI is also highly favored by viewers. #### Cons Small learning curve/training for new admins or instructors who have no background in video. Support documents on the Panopto site are great, but it would help to have one-on-one training for new admin users. --- ### Panopto is a great video hosting tool, but the other features need major work! - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Panopto is great at hosting videos which is its main function. We needed a new video hosting tool at the university because our previous tool (Techsmith Knowmia) was going away permanently. We loved Knowmia and wish we could have kept it, but I digress. Panopto was the best tool available after piloting and testing several others. The training and support that Panopto provides enterprise customers are really good. We got personalized training sessions along with weekly webinars. We still get weekly support if needed. The auto-captioning function is also really helpful and quite good at captioning correctly on its own. #### Cons Panopto editing and recording are sub-par. The user interface is beyond confusing! I would rather use a different tool to record/screen-share videos than mess with Panopto. Editing is just about useless using Panopto. The ability to share and collaborate on videos is confusing. The folder structure system makes no sense. #### Reasons for switching to Panopto We did not want to switch. Techsmith is no longer supporting Knowmia or we would have kept it. --- ### Very good online desktop tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mark R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A lovely free tool that comes highly recommended. Easy to use and set up. No need for any downloading of programs. Go to the website and away you go. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - easy to use - good functionality- easy to download and keep files- works well when recording from google meet or zoom etc if you dont want to pay for them #### Cons - sometimes a little confusing if its on or notbut otherwise it is a great tool and saves you having to take notes in conference calls --- ### Panopto Creates a Seamless Experience to Create, Distribute, and View Course Lectures - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jason H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The auto-scheduling and auto-publishing of videos to specific Canvas courses is extremely valuable. Other players in this space currently require manually publishing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Panopto is tightly integrated with the Canvas LMS. We have been piloting this product for four months. We are able to schedule the lecture captures, associate each video with the instructor and appropriate Canvas course, and automatically publish the videos, so that students can review the course content at a later time on nearly any type of device. #### Cons There is a cost associated with piloting this software, but it's not too excessive. Many companies offer a completely free trial period. It would be nice to check it out for free. --- ### Panopto Review - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Taylor H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I appreciate it for what it is. I think it could be improved, but that won't stop me from using it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros This software allows me to watch lectures from graduate school online and through our Canvas course homepage. I appreciate that it allows me to determine the playback speed. #### Cons It is not extremely user friendly, especially from a mobile standpoint. I wish it was easier to use on mobile devices. --- ### Does what it's supposed to! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dany H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's a great tool for recording our classes and lectures so students can access them later. A fantastic way for students who happen to miss a class to get caught up! #### Cons I don't think it's a secret that the web browser experience is lacking in all but IE. Most of us are Mac users and Safari is never happy with Panopto. --- ### Very easy to work with and watch - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Adelyn C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Clicking back and forth on the slides is very easy to do, so you can skip to a certain part of the lecture if you remember what slide you took notes on. This is great for my classes which have excruciatingly long lectures, and getting through them and finding the key points can be extremely useful. #### Cons Of course, since it's a different software than what others normally use, it can be hard to integrate this with what we already use rather than just sending a YouTube link. The E-learning environment that I work in uses YouTube much more than Panopto, which is probably due to this. --- ### great for recording managing and sharing videos - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Saurav C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Environmental Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used Panopto to use some of my lecturers to go with the power point slides for a class I was teaching in class but needed to be transitioned into a virtual platform and was satisfied with the features and ease with which I was able to do it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Recently used Panopto to facilitate e learning as I had to transform course content of a class that was supposed to be taught in-class to maintain social distancing. It was fairly easy to record some of my lectures to be incorporated into the power point presentations. It would have been otherwise difficult to explain some of the points without the aid of Panopto. #### Cons I really have not come across something that I would like to particularly mention in this context. Editing the videos were a little troublesome but overall I think it did a good job. --- ### Great for remote students - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Terran G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I like it for what it is. It makes it easy for recording and posting lectures. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like how easy it is to record class lectures and rewatch them after class. This makes it easy for remote students to get the same information as those who can regularly attend. #### Cons when compared to some other video recording software, it has very minimal features. It's mainly just a screen capture. --- ### PanOpto for lecture recording, media collections, class engagement, and more - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with PanOpto has been favorable. It's brought about increased self-reflection in teaching, and my students love ability to circle back and review collected class proceedings prior to papers and tests. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I most like the collection folder organization and customizable sharing permissions. It's great for lecture recordings to help document class proceedings for subsequent reflections and student engagement strategies. The picture-in-picture recordings, the automatic tagging of timestamps with the progression of PowerPoint slides, and the versatility of downloaded outputs make this a great product for education. #### Cons The connection between the desktop client and browser-base interface that we've integrated into our LMS is not easy to navigate, especially for newcomers. Consequently, the tool is predominately used by seasoned instructors. I've found it productive to give students creation access to class media collections, but there is definitely a nominal learning curve in place, where students at first use, lack the confidence to configure input and output sources. Also, it continues to frustrate me that capturing screen audio has been in beta for so long. If there is a process for multiple video inputs, then should also be a way to include multiple audio inputs, as well. --- ### Another Stunning Screen Recorder with unheard of Features - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mohamed C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for free trial - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered A pleasant platform to launch your virtual classes in few clicks with plenty of features that powerful video editing panels have. Panopto, unlike Zoom and WebEx, offers the possibility to record your screen, share data, share information, manage your storage. Panopto, no one offers this before, helps build quizzes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros An interactive and enagaging video softaware that helps create stunning videos in one click and share it with audience in another click. Panopto is the final solution for virtual classes, trainings, webinars and other group meetings where you share data, presentations and any type of exposure. Unlike Zoom, WebEx and Teams, Panopto provides the possibility to manage and share your videos. Guess what, Panopto can provide statistics, build quizzes. It is just amazing! #### Cons Actually, I did not like the fact that the full version is limited to certain countries unlike others. This is not good for a conferencing solution as Panopto. Revise the subscription plans too, mainly for teachers and educators. #### Reasons for switching to Panopto to explore other features --- ### Panopto - Great for online lecture delivery - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shane V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Integration with Desire2Learn and Camtasia. #### Cons I like that grades are directly exported to the learning management system. I do have to adjust the values of the grades once they are exported. --- ### Great! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Has made my work-life easier. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The support has been very good. Not only when there has been an issue but also when trying to find answers and just cannot find the correct article, they have been excellent at pointing me in the right direction. #### Cons I am normally in Chrome throughout the day, so when I need to use the Advanced Editor, I have to change over to IE. It is not a real problem, just an inconvenience --- ### Fully automated video management made possible? - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It made my experience of taking university courses much more efficient, where i could watch classes i didn't attend or watch them again if one time wasn't enough. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Panopto integrates perfectly with existing business processes such as video conferences, with this software you can watch countless time previous discussions, interviews and even webinar or courses too. It has plenty of features that save a lot of time, for example you can search key words or upgrade the speed of the video to watch it more shortly. Most of the work the software does can be automated which enables bussinesses to cover following demands in advance. #### Cons As long videos might enjoy great quality the software does take some times eventually to load retracements or advancements in the video playing. Nevertheless, this is understandable. --- ### Simple and effective lecture capture soution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Panopto is a very user friendly tool which scales well and provides a wide range of facilities to capture educational content. Having rolled this solution out across the enterprise it has performed exceptionally well and has met our expectations. The ability to share content simply is a key selling point for our users. #### Cons Nothing negative, the system is user friendly, scales very well meets the expectation of boht staff and students. --- ### Panopto - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Wade H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We had a need for an easy way to capture our Grand Rounds weekly meetings for medical staff. Panopto was the perfect solution. The videos can be shared later with medical staff here as well at other locations. We have also utilized the live streaming feature to push out content to our 20,000+ employees. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, create, and share content with others. Also love that it has the ability to live stream presentations. #### Cons I really don't have any negative issues. We have been using for Panopto for over 6 years and continue to uttilize it more. --- ### Good Software for Dual-Screen Videos - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Soleil M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, I enjoy using this program and would definitely recommend it to anyone who makes videos for any purpose. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I always wondered how people created videos that allowed a secondary screen, so I was very happy when I came across this program. It was introduced to me in my graduate course, but of course I explored to see what I could use for my students. It is incredibly helpful for me to show students how to complete certain tasks like formatting for a particular writing program. I can verbally explain the steps but also show them on my screen. This is also nice for presentations, as the video can switch between the primary screen of someone speaking to a secondary screen of pictures, charts, or graphs. #### Cons The only problem I had in the beginning was navigation and figuring out how to use each tool for editing videos. I did eventually figure it out but maybe the layout of the tools could be improved or a tutorial could be included in some format. --- ### Panopto Is Awesome - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael C. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Easy to use and very cost effective. This VCMS is the best in the Biz. Sales enablement has never been so easy #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease of Use #### Cons None --- ### Panopto works well with Canvas - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tim S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A well-rounded video/lecture recording tool that faculty members should have access to. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The most useful features in Panopto revolve around the Web recording tool. It works just as well as a software application. #### Cons Some may say it could lack some teaching features like polling, but the quizzing and other powerful features outshine. --- ### Great option for instructors - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jeff K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Panopto is relatively intuitive to use and has multiple features that make it easy to utilize for online learning and teaching. It can easily integrate into your Learning Management System making it even easier to utilize. They are certainly trying to maintain the software well with great upgrades and updates. #### Cons It doesn't let the video speed up at all increments. More freedom to control speed could be useful to students. The analytics could be a little better and more detailed. --- ### Panopto - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Leyniker Raul R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Market Research - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I love panopto, it is very simple and useful for students like me who study from a distance I do not waste any time in finding the materials and I have complete visibility about everything #### Cons the truth I have not had any problem with this tool is agile, inreible for those who return to study again --- ### Using Panapto has changed the way I provide lectures online. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Julia V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I was able to transfer my face to face lectures. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Panopto is a software that comes in handy for recording lectures for a flipped classroom experience. It is easy to use and required little effort to transfer your classroom experience to an online training environment. #### Cons It is not an inexpensive program. It is can be tricky with certain web browsers such as Safari. It is not a true problem but more of an inconvenience. --- ### Once You Figure it Out, Panapto is a Great way to Stream - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Annalisa G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, one I realized that all you need is an HDMI cable to connect to a laptop and whatever room system you're using, it was fairly easy. This solved our problem that Zoom presented, which was that we couldn't as easily record. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros -easy to set up initial streaming links to launch -Records while streaming -easy to edit recording and upload as a YouTube Video #### Cons -If you don't have a built-in audio system to use in the room when you launch the live stream, I'm not sure how easy it would be to pick up sound. In my case, it was very easy and connected through an HDMI cable. -check your laser pointers. In my case I had some trouble, but eventually got a solution which IT worked on --- ### Easy to record and share video and presentations - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy A. - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros We utilize Panopto to record and share video of presentations. The audio, video, and presentation sync up very nicely. Also great is the ability to edit and share video from within Panopto. We are able to cut and edit video and then share the video hosted from within the software. #### Cons While the editing functions are good for cutting and quick edits, they do not provide a full-suite editor. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/panopto-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Panopto Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice