Updated March 27, 2025

This guide is meant to assist faculty in making it so that a Quiz that was added to a video in Panopto can be assigned in Canvas, and the results will appear in the Canvas Gradebook. This guide assumes that the quiz has already been added to the Panopto video. For assistance in creating that Panopto Video Quiz, please see our IT Help article: How do I create a Panopto Video Quiz? (linked).

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  1. Go to https://signon.stjohns.edu and sign in using your credentials. Click the “Canvas LMS” tab.

  2. Navigate to your Canvas course and select the Assignments tab in your course navigation.
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  1. In the top-right corner of the Assignments window, select the + Assignment button.
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  1. In the textboxes provided, add an Assignment Name, and a description (if needed), and then provide a Points value for the assignment.  Please note: the setting Display Grades As is required to be set to Points, as Panopto does not support any of the other grading types at this time. 

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  1. For the Submission Type, select External Tool. Then, select the Find button menu. Note: If you select the checkbox for Load This Tool In A New Tab, your students will be prompted to launch the video in a new browser tab. If you leave this unchecked, the video will embed and play directly within the Canvas assignment. 
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  1. When Find is selected, a pop-up window will appear with a list of your Canvas external tools. Select “Panopto Video,” and then select which Panopto video you'd like to set as the assignment. Select Insert. Note: You can also adjust your Video Embed Options before inserting the video. To learn more about the Video Embed Options, see Learn About the Video Embed Options in an LMS (Panopto Support).
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  1. In the Assign box, you can set the availability for the assignment and its due date.  Select Save for later editing or Save & Publish to make it available to students during the availability dates set in the Assign box. Note: If you've edited an assignment after saving and publishing it, selecting the checkbox next to Notify users that this content has changed will let your students know that the assignment has changed. 
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  1. Once saved, the assignment will now show up on the Assignments page and can be edited by the instructor. Please note: Students must use the link in the assignment for their grade to report back to Canvas.
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Please note the following: 

  • You can embed a video without an existing quiz in it. If you want to do this, select Save, go to Panopto and create the quiz in the editor, and then go back to Canvas and click Save & Publish. If you embed a video with multiple quizzes, they will be rolled up into one score and tracked as one assignment instead of as individual quizzes in the video. 

  • For a quiz grade to be passed to the Canvas Gradebook, the user must complete all questions in the quiz, as there is no partial credit. This is also true in instances where there are multiple correct answers/multiple choice, where the user will receive a zero score unless they select all of the correct answers. 

  • The option to Watch in Panopto, represented by the pop-out arrow icon in the lower right corner of the video, will be greyed out and unavailable as we do not allow the Panopto Interactive Viewer to be launched in a new tab if the video is being graded as a quiz or based on a view. 
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For more information on how to view Panopto Video grades in the Canvas Gradebook, please see: Viewing Grades (Panopto Support)