Panopto told us this week that it's releasing CourseCast v2, an update to the company's classroom capture system, and making it available to educators free through its Socrates Project beta program.
Panopto's CourseCast is designed for capturing, editing, and streaming audio and video from lectures and other presentations over the Web. Captured materials can be searched, linked, and annotated through the software, and recorded materials can be embedded in popular course management systems. The software is a spinoff from a project at Carnegie Mellon University, where it was initially developed and first deployed.
CourseCast is available at no charge to educators in K-12 and post-secondary institutions through Panopto's Socrates Project, which asks that users participate in beta programs aimed at further enhancing the software. Participants in the Socrates Project, starting this week, will have access to CourseCast v2 ahead of the full, commercial-grade release, which is slated for early July.
Course-wide search of content (including the content of notes and PowerPoint files) in addition to previous support for tagging.
Information on CourseCast and the Socrates Project can be accessed via Panopto's home page here.