St. John's University Service Desk

Updated March 27, 2025

This guide is meant to assist faculty in adding a quiz to a Panopto Video. To add that video quiz into Canvas as an assignment so that the results appear in your Canvas Gradebook, please see the following Panopto Support article: How to use a Panopto Quiz as a Canvas Assignment (linked).

1. Go to https://stjohns.hosted.panopto.com and log in using “CanvasProd,” followed by your Single Sign-On credentials

2. Find the video you wish to add. Hover your mouse over the video thumbnail and click the “Edit” button, highlighted in image below:

3. You are now in the Panopto Editor. Click in the timeline to navigate to the place in the video where you would like to insert a quiz. The red vertical line will indicate where the quiz will be added in the video.

4. In the left Navigation menu, click on Quizzes and then select Add a Quiz.

5. A quiz window will appear in your secondary stream window where you can fill in the details for your quiz.

6. Within the form, you can select the drop-down menu in the top right corner to show different types of quiz questions. The quiz options include True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, and Fill In The Blank. The default is multiple choice.

a. Multiple Choice: Gives you the option to have several answers present, but only one answer can be chosen as correct. When the option is first chosen, there will only be two answer fields. Another answer field can be added by clicking the "Add Answer..." button. You need to have the correct answer selected before adding another question.

To remove an answer you can click on the X next to any of the answers.

b. Fill In the Blank: Gives you the option to ask questions that require users to fill in answers to the question. The prompt will ask for the correct answer to be provided.  An underscore _ needs to be placed before and after the answer. For portions of the question where there are multiple possible answers for a blank space, insert a divider | between each potential answer. For example, if the phrase that must be completed is The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, and the quiz taker must guess quick and then can guess either lazy dog or lazydog the Prompt section would be written as The _quick_ brown fox jumps over the _lazydog | lazy dog_, as pictured below. In the Preview section, you will see the possible answers listed and separated by commas. 

c. Other quiz question types include True/False, which gives you the option to ask a True or False question. And Multiple Select, which gives you the option to have several answers present and more than one can be selected as correct. Note: when using multiple select, all correct answers must be selected by the viewer in order to be marked as a correct response. 

7. If you need to navigate to a different question in your quiz, you can use the Back and Next buttons at the bottom of the form.

8. Once you are done with a question and want to add another one, click the Add a Question button at the bottom of the form.

9. Once you have added all of your questions, click the Done button at the bottom of the form.

10. You will then be directed to the Options page for this Quiz. In this page, you can:

    1. Allow viewers to retake the Quiz. Please note: When this is enabled, Panopto can only retain a user's most recent score.

    2. Show grade after taking this quiz (If this is enabled you can also allow review of correct answers and explanations)

    3. Allow review of correct answers and explanations

    4. Block advancing in the video until answering this quiz. Please note: This applies to viewers who have not yet completed the quiz. Once the quiz is completed, the viewer has the option to continue watching.

    5. Delete questions by clicking the Xs

    6. Reorganize the questions by using the arrows

11. Once you are finished, click the Finish button. The name of your quiz will now appear in the Quizzing pane.

12. Repeat these steps for each quiz you want to add to your session. When you are finished, click Publish. During playback, when it is time for a Quiz the video will pause until the question(s) is/are answered.

For steps on how to Edit a Panopto Quiz after it has been created, please see: Editing a Quiz (Panopto Support)

For steps on how to View Panopto Quiz Results in Panopto, please see: Viewing Quiz Results (Panopto Support)