Panopto Streamlines Lecture Capture Process Through Enhanced Integration with Blackboard Learn Platform

New Blackboard Building Block Empowers Faculty and Students to Seamlessly Post,
Organize and Access CourseCast Content within Blackboard Learn Platform
PITTSBURGH--(Business Wire)--
Panopto, Inc., a leading provider of media-rich knowledge casting and management
solutions for the corporate, education, government and healthcare markets, today
announced that it has developed a new Blackboard Building Block for its
CourseCast software to increase the efficiency of students, instructors and
system administrators.

Panopto has completed this new integration to the Blackboard Learn platform to
provide users across the globe with a lecture capture solution that reduces time
spent uploading, organizing, broadcasting and retrieving recorded video and
audio content.

"CourseCast`s new Blackboard Building Block helps make campus-wide adoption of
CourseCast a snap," said Eric Burns, co-founder and chief technology officer of
Panopto. "With CourseCast, faculty and administrators no longer have to waste
hours on manual data entry or file publishing. Instead, they can focus on
delivering lessons that really engage their students - both in and out of the
classroom."

With the new Blackboard Building Block, CourseCast automatically creates folders
of recorded material within Blackboard Learn course Web pages, while also
populating student access control lists, eliminating manual data entry and
streamlining key lecture capture processes.

It also publishes recorded and real-time streaming content instantly to the
Blackboard Learn platform to ensure users have access to time-sensitive lectures
as they are happening.

Additionally, CourseCast now allows faculty and students to access Panopto
recordings directly through their personalized Blackboad Learn accounts by using
Panopto`s single sign-on technology. This feature ensures students have easy
access to critical material, while alleviating the burden on IT staff by
decreasing the number of password requests and log-in errors.

The addition of single sign-on technology also helps professors gauge student
engagement as podcasts are tied directly to student notes, live broadcast
questions and custom analytics reports.

This new functionality builds off CourseCast`s robust second-generation lecture
capture platform which empowers faculty and students to create, edit and save
digitally recorded video and audio podcasts through the use of a video camera or
simple Web cam.

With a low total cost of ownership and the ability to record hundreds of
concurrent sessions, CourseCast delivers a scalable and flexible solution that
can be deployed across a single classroom or an entire university.

The new Panopto Blackboard Building Block will be available in August 2009 for
all supported customers. Panopto also will be demonstrating CourseCast`s latest
functionality on July 14-17 at the Blackboard World® `09 conference in
Washington, D.C.

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., Blackboard is a global
leader in enterprise technology and innovative solutions that improve the
experience of millions of students and learners around the world every day.

As a member in the Blackboard Alliance Program, Panopto is also part of the
Blackboard Developers Network, an innovative community of technical experts with
a passion for using technology to enhance teaching and learning.

Within the Network, developers from schools, colleges, universities,
associations, government organizations and companies are developing software and
applications - Blackboard Building Blocks that extend and enhance the Blackboard
learning environment. Currently, there are more than 150 free or open source
Blackboard Building Blocks available to users of the Blackboard Learn platform
worldwide.

About Panopto

Panopto, Inc. is a leading provider of media-rich knowledge casting and
management solutions for the corporate, education, government and healthcare
markets. Founded in 2007 by professors at Carnegie Mellon University, Panopto`s
innovative solutions are the result of years of advanced research in scalable
media systems that harness the advantages of today's video, capture, stream,
search and archival technologies. Its flagship product, CourseCast, is used by
thousands of students across the globe, while its Panopto Hosted solutions
provide users with a cost-effective option for streaming and recorded video
capture. For additional information about Panopto and its comprehensive suite of
video capture solutions, please visit www.panopto.com.

Blackboard, the Blackboard Alliance Program, the Blackboard Developers Network,
and Blackboard Building Blocks are registered trademarks of Blackboard Inc. and
are used with permission. All rights reserved.

Panopto, Inc.
Beth Bellon, 412-983-8223
bbellon@panopto.com

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