How reliable are the statistics on Panopto recordings?

[stevec]

I run a hybrid class in which half the class attends discussions, which are recorded on Panopto and are required viewing for students who do not attend discussions. Yesterday was the first time that I looked at the statistics, and they're TERRIBLE. It looks like around five online students watch the entire two-hour video, two watch five minutes or so, and six seem to ignore the video. 

Is it possible that the stats are wrong? Before I go on a tirade, I want to make sure that there's no way that they could be watching the videos without having a record of their accessing it on Canvas. These are distance-ed students, so I doubt that they're getting together in a cohort and watching en masse. Can I rely on the fact that they simply aren't getting the material from the lectures? 

[Robbie_Grant]

 @stevec ,

Our Panopto instance, although integrated into Canvas, is accessible from outside of Canvas.  We have also found that students rarely watch a two hour Panopto recorded lecture in its entirety.  Now, the statistics you are looking at, are they through Canvas Analytics or through the Panopto Dashboard?

Robbie

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello  @stevec ‌...

It has been since February 27th since you posted this question and received a response from  @Robbie_Grant .  Have you had a chance to review the response from Robbie?  It looks like he's asking for a bit more information from you in order to help answer your question.  If you could, please come back to this topic to post a response so that members of the Canvas Community can continue to help you.  For now, because there hasn't been any new activity in this thread since the end of February, I am going to mark your question as "Assumed Answered", but that won't prevent you or others from posting additional replies below.  I hope that is okay with you.  Looking forward to hearing from you soon, Steve.

[hallmans]

Hi Steve:

We also use Panopto and I'd be happy to discuss offline in detail. One thing to keep in mind is that they may be watching the videos through the Canvas app which does not record in the analytics.

[JoannaFurno]

I was planning to use the Panopto statistics to assign attendance for an online course. However, some students are telling me that they watched the entire video, when Panopto has them at less than 100%. The heat map statistics from the Panopto are a mess. There are multiple data points with the same time stamp, and some data points are inconsistent in the sense that the next time stamp is sooner than when the previous one said they stopped viewing. Is this really accurate enough to assign attendance grades?

[cstrikwerda · Accepted solution]

As far as Panopto recording statistics are concerned, we here at Canvas would not be too familiar with how these statistics could vary or differ from what the student is saying they had watched. You could potentially compare against Canvas Access Report data 

Viewing Course Access Report

I think you would need to reach out to Panopto about this as they would be best to ask about their statistics and how accurate they would be.