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5. Panopto for Mac LIve Webcast

Panopto has the ability to webcast all recordings live over your network or the Internet. If you are not familiar with Panopto for Mac, check out our Panopto for Mac Basic Recording documentation first!

How to Live Webcast

From Panopto for Mac, be sure to select an online folder, then check “Webcast”.

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Record and Stop

To start the broadcast simply click the RECORD button. To end the live broadcast, simply click the  STOP button. Your recording will then complete and upload to the server.

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Viewing

A viewer URL is generated after your webcast starts. This URL can shared through the web user interface by clicking “Share”. Clicking “Copy” will copy the URL to your clipboard.

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Users may login to the Panopto website to view any live broadcasts that may be available at that time.

To do this, simply go to your Panopto server’s website, and click the live session that you would like to watch.  If access to the content is restricted to certain viewers, they will have to login with their credentials.

You can determine which sessions are broadcasting live because the icon will look like the following:

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The viewer can click on the session and a viewer window will open just as it would if the lecture had been previously recorded.

Pause, rewind and go live feature

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Buttons for pausing and rewinding are pictured above on the left. You can easily seek through a live broadcast to any time by dragging the slider circled above, even if you join late. To catch up and watch the broadcast live, just click the “LIVE” button as seen above. You may also continue to watch the live broadcast even after it has ended.

Questions, Comments, and Notes

During the live broadcast, viewers who are logged in and viewing the live broadcast can ask questions and make comments via the viewer window. The questions and comments have been merged into a “Discussion” section in the viewer. Furthermore, viewers can also take public or private notes during the broadcast to refer back to at a later time. Questions, comments, and notes are stored by the server for review at a later time, even after the broadcast has ended.

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You can also turn off discussions for any or all webcasts and recordings by going to the Panopto web administration pages under System> Settings and changing the Discussion Enabled setting to False.

3. Creating a Broadcast URL in Advance

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Generating a Webcast URL in advance is easy and only requires a few steps to complete.

Creating a Webcast URL in Advance

Generating Link

Step 1.) Log into your Panopto site.

Step 2.) Click the green Create button and choose the Webcast option

Step 3.) Choose your session name, select a folder, then check “Create.”

 

Step 4.) After you click “Create” this page will display your new session information.

 

Note the “Viewer Link” area: This is the broadcast URL that you have generated in advance that you may send to potential viewers. Feel free to copy and paste this link as needed.

Please be advised that this link will not work until you have started recording to the session in the Windows Recorder.

Recording to Session

When you are ready to record your live session open your Pantopo Recorder and login

Click the arrow to select the session you’ve setup to broadcast:

Locate your session and click “Record to this Session”

You will be brought back to the main recorder screen. Click Record when you are ready to Broadcast and viewers using your URL from above will be able to view your session Live.