Academic Tech Tips

Panopto 10

Greetings from ITRS! We are pleased to announce the arrival of Panopto 10, Loyola’s official lecture capturing platform. The new version will be available on December 20th, 2020 and will include several new and improved features:

• Tags — Panopto’s video library has a new way to support content organization and discovery: #tags.  Users can now add tags to their recordings from the video settings, the editor, or in Panopto Capture. 
• Smart Chapters — The new Smart Chapters tool automatically creates a table of contents for any recording with a screen capture, including recordings from Zoom.
• Delete Streams in the Editor — Users can now delete or replace video streams in the editor, allowing for greater flexibility in making changes to recordings.
• Share interesting points in a video — This feature enables viewers to easily share a link to a specific point in the video with others.
• Audio Normalization — Users can now make audio levels consistent throughout their recordings with the audio normalization feature in the editor.
• Updated Mobile apps — New updates to the Panopto app (coming soon) will provide users with enhancements for recording and uploading content from their phones.

Sakai 20 is coming to Loyola on Monday, December 21^st, 2020! On 12/21 from 7am to 12pm, Sakai will be unavailable. 

Once the upgrade is complete, the following new and improved features will be available: 

• Sakai Grader with a document preview for the Assignments tool 
• A date manager that allows instructors to quickly modify all due dates in the Site Info tool 
• An auto-groups wizard that takes the guesswork out of creating groups 
• A brand-new Rubrics tool that integrates with Assignments, Forums, and Tests & Quizzes 
• Gradebook enhancements, including the ability to equally weight items within a Gradebook category 
• Rich text editor templates to easily create stylized Lessons pages 
• And more! For a full list of new features, see the Sakai LMS blog. 

Faculty, staff, and students who would like to learn more about the changes coming to Sakai are invited to attend a “What’s New in Sakai 20?” info-session or a Q&A open forum with ITRS staff. For dates and registration information, see Sakai 20 Upgrade.