Zoom vs Panopto
What are the key features of Zoom and Panopto and how do the two tools differ?
Zoom
Zoom is an easy-to-use video conferencing tool that lets users quickly and reliably schedule, manage, and record meetings. Zoom was designed for online meetings, so its features are built to enhance interactivity and engagement during meeting sessions. In addition to sharing audio and webcam video, participants can also share a live feed of their screens. Zoom allows recording of meetings to the Zoom cloud.
Zoom is best if:
1. Your classes require students to participate in real-time and verbally.
2. You will have guest speakers.
3. You want to schedule your class meetings directly in Canvas.
Panopto
Panopto is Stevens’ cloud-based video content management system which allows you to create, edit, manage, and share video content. Panopto features work best for sharing on-demand videos and screen-recordings. Panopto recordings exist long-term, are easy to view, and integrate smoothly with Canvas.
Panopto is best if:
1. You use a flipped classroom learning model.
2. You want to combine pre-recorded lectures with live lectures.
3. You want the ability to edit your lectures and control release dates.
4. You want students to have an enhanced video playback experience.
Zoom vs Panopto Comparison Chart
Feature
Zoom
Panopto
Recording
Record a speaker and their shared screen. Must be connected to the internet to hold meetings and record them.
Record a speaker, their screen, slide deck, and additional camera feed or videos. Recordings can be created either online or offline.
Editing
Trim the tail ends of recordings to preferred length.
The Panopto non-destructive editor allows you to:
- trim the ends of recordings
- cut sections from the middle of your recordings
- switch between multiple video sources
- combine recordings or add other video clips
- embed links and Youtube videos
- add/edit slides
- add/edit captions
- upload or request human-edited captioning
- add/edit a table of contents
- add time-stamped quizzes
Panopto also supports 3rd party video editors such as Camtasia.
Sharing
Zoom recordings stored in the Zoom cloud are available to meeting participants in their Previous Meetings tab. Faculty can share Zom cloud recordings of class meetings directly with their students through the Zoom App in Canvas. Zoom recordings can be automatically uploaded to Panopto.
Panopto recordings can be securely shared in Canvas or Panopto with authenticated users without creating and sharing passwords.
Playback Features
Zoom allows variable speed playback, searching within recordings through transcription, and automated captioning.
Panopto playback features include:
- variable speed playback
- search within recordings through transcription or visual text recognition
- enable and configure captioning
- toggle video streams to focus on speaker, screen, slides, or additional video footage
- click through table of contents or video thumbnails to find specific topics
- add personal notes and bookmarks
- collaborate with others through time-stamped discussion threads
Searching
Search for text within the automated transcription and find transcribed recordings that include the text you are searching for.
Panopto uses optical character recognition and automated speech recognition to index your entire video to become searchable for any spoken word or word that shows up on a slide. search spoken words as well as words in slides or screenshots from any recording in your organization's library.
Video Analytics
You can view analytics (page views and downloads) for a cloud recording that you have shared internally or externally. Zoom dashboards and reports help administrators understand how video conferencing is being used within the organization, and how much of your cloud storage you are using.
Teaching teams have access to aggregate course folder level and individual video analytics, including user completion stats. Administrators can audit video communications across the entire organization. Content creators can see which users watched specific recordings and whether or not they watched them through to the end.
Interactions
Zoom features live audio/video interaction and a text chat. Users can post questions or comments during a meeting to everyone in the meeting or to an individual participant. Text chat can be saved to your local device when the meeting ends.
Panopto does not support audio or multi-way video interaction. In the Discussion tab, users can post questions and comments in the viewer window during live broadcasting. Viewers can also take public or private notes during the broadcast. Discussion comments, questions, and notes are all stored in Panopto for later review or reference.
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