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Overview

Instructors can create a Panopto video assignment that is synced with Canvas and will report back quiz results and data. This allows instructors to both see who has taken the quiz and their results, as well as allows instructors to add quiz scores to the users grades in the Canvas course. Students can easily view the Panopto video and take embedded quizzes through Canvas.

Prerequisites

Admin access to Panopto
Canvas account (Instructor or Student)

1. Creating an Assignment (Instructor)

1.1. In the Canvas course, select the Assignments tab from the left-hand navigation (Fig. 1).

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1.2. In the top-right corner of the Assignments window, select the + Assignment button (Fig. 2).

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1.3. In the textboxes provided, add an Assignment Name, and a description (if needed), and then provide a Points value for the assignment (Fig. 3). Please note: the setting Display Grades As is required to be set to Points, as Panopto does not support any of the other grading types at this time.

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1.4. For the Submission Type, select External Tool. Then, select the Find button menu (Fig. 4). Note: If you select the checkbox for Load This Tool In A New Tab, your students will be prompted to launch the video in a new browser tab. If you leave this unchecked, the video will embed and play directly within the Canvas assignment.

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1.5. When Find is selected, a pop-up window will appear with a list of your Canvas external tools. Select your Panopto external tool, and then select which Panopto video you'd like to set as the assignment. Select Insert. (Fig. 5a). Note: You can also adjust your Video Embed Options before inserting the video. To learn more about the Video Embed Options, see Learn About the Video Embed Options in an LMS.

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1.5.a. Note: If you have LTI 1.3. enabled and configured for your Canvas integration, a pop-up window will appear before you can select and insert a video. To ensure that the quiz is graded, select Grade on quiz results and then Continue (Fig. 5b).

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1.6. In the Assign box, you can set the availability for the assignment and its due date. Select Save for later editing or Save & Publish to make it available to students during the availability dates set in the Assign box. (Fig. 6). Note: if you've edited an assignment after saving and publishing it, selecting the checkbox next to Notify users that this content has changed will let your students know that the assignment has changed.

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1.7. Once saved, the assignment will now show up on the Assignments page and can be edited by the instructor (Fig. 7). Please note: Students must use the link in the assignment in order for their grade to reported back to Canvas.

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Note: You can embed a video without an existing Quiz in it. If you want to do this, select Save, go to Panopto and create the quiz in the Editor, and then go back to Canvas and click Save & Publish.

If you embed a video with multiple quizzes, they will be rolled up into one score and tracked as one assignment instead of as individual quizzes in the video.

2. Seeing Grades (Instructor)

2.1. In the Canvas course, select Grades from the left-hand navigation (Fig. 8).

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2.2. In the top row of the gradebook, you will see the video assignment name. Underneath it, the scores for each student will appear to the right of their name (Fig. 9).

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2.3. To only view the created assignment in the gradebook, select the dropdown arrow in the Assignment Names dropdown menu or use its textbox to search for it (Fig. 10a).

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2.3.a. This will filter the gradebook so that only the grades for the assignment selected will appear (Fig. 11b).

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2.4. To see a specific student's grades, select their name in the gradebook, and in the window that appears, select Grades under the course name (Fig. 12a).

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2.4.a. A list of the student's assignments and grades will appear (Fig. 12b).

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3. Related Articles

3.1. For information about Panopto's integration with Canvas LMS, which also provides the option for single sign-on, course provisioning, rolling synchronization for user access, and immediate video viewing for users, please see Learn About the Canvas Integration.

3.2. Instructors can also create a Panopto video assignment synced with Canvas, which will report a grade based on the percentage of the video that has been watched. Learn how to do this in How to Use a Panopto Video as a Canvas Assignment.