Purpose
This article outlines the steps for sharing Panopto videos with other instructors, allowing them to incorporate the content into their own courses.
Background
Sharing videos is helpful if you and a colleague are teaching different sections of the same course. But to make sure you are getting accurate viewer statistics and to avoid permission errors, please follow the steps in this guide to share your videos with others to use in their courses.
Important Note: Instructional videos that will be reused from semester to semester are best organized in subfolders within your “My Folder” in Panopto, rather than primarily housed in a “Moodle Course” folder that will be specific to a single semester section of your course.
Please reach out to the Moodle Team if you would like guidance on what will be best for your specific scenario.
Procedure
Identify which subfolder has the videos you want to share with your colleague. In most cases it will be best to create another folder that you will share and put the videos in that folder.
Follow the steps in this How to Share a Folder tutorial, making your colleague a Creator in the folder.
Once they are a creator, they will need to make a copy and move it into their own course folder. Refer to this guide to help you: How to Copy and Move Videos
Pay special attention to whether it will be best to make a reference copy or a full copy. Check into the specifics of Reference Copies to decide what will be best for you, but we suggest using a reference copy if both instructors will want to maintain the exact same content across both courses. If it is likely that either instructor will make even minor changes to the video that they don’t want the other copy to have, creating a full copy will serve both instructors best from the beginning.
The statistics for which students have watched the video will now be unique to that copy of the video, regardless of whether it is a reference copy or full copy.
Remember to only have students access the video through Moodle and not by giving them a direct link to the video if you want to have by-name stats of who has watched the video.