Panopto

I am a distance education student and unfortunately, my university uses Panopto for recorded lectures. I have had no issues watching my lectures on my laptop, but I always have issues when I am using the app on either my phone or iPad. Sometimes the sound will just randomly go out and you will have to reboot the app or even though it shows you scrubbed forward in the recording the sound will be playing from the very beginning - this is very frustrating because sometimes it will just bring you back to the beginning of the video and then you won’t be able to get back to your spot. There are so many little glitches that happen like that it makes it pretty much unusable. I like to listen to my lectures while I’m driving, especially if I have an exam coming up and need to be utilizing any spare moment for studying, but this app makes it hazardous for me to do so since it is incapable of just playing the lecture without glitching and requiring attention. It always ends up glitching and then I can’t fix it since I’m driving and I lose the opportunity to get some extra academic time in. It is extremely frustrating and disappointing. Truly hope they see all these reviews and fix these issues or I hope my university will drop them and find a different platform to upload lectures. It is truly so bad and has a big impact on my overall experience as an online student.

Haven’t even used the app because it won’t let me use my school account on the app, when I try to sign in it will automatically takes me to the website. This would be fine if Panopto had IOS support but it literally just doesn't so why even take there. It’s just wasted my time by me trying to figure out how to use it, just for me to figure out I can’t. This app shouldn’t advertise or partner with schools because the app is not properly built, and isn’t straight forward or easy to use it’s a hindrance on students. It’s annoying that this app even is used in professional settings because the app is far from it. Also (on computer) why make make it seem like recording in your browser is a alternative when it doesn’t even record your screen, it just works as a really bad webcam in the browser. You need to actually install the software on a computer to use the screen recorder. F this software, student around the world despise you because of the negligence your company has about the capabilities of your software.

The idea of this app is phenomenal. The app itself offers a subpar experience. Why do I still need internet to access offline videos? Why does the sound stop randomly, only to restart the video audio from the beginning even though the video stays at more than half done? Why do the speed controls not work for videos 1/2 the time? So many bugs and errors, I wish my school would switch to something else.