This App Needs a Huge Overhaul

This app honestly isnt that great. My school uses this program to record our lectures and I like to listen to the lecture over again mostly when I commute to and from school which was the sole reason I downloaded this app.

Problem #1: Not user friendly at ALL. I attend a fairly large educational institution and panapto is used school-wide. Because of this, there are literally hundreds of panapto videos that are organized at the discretion of the professors who use this software. So if I want to look at the folder for a specific course/professor I have to scroll through more than 250 folders every single time. There is no way to jump to folders that start with a specific letter such as “N” or “R” other than scrolling.

Problem #2: And this is the main I felt the need to write this review. Despite all of the setbacks of this app I’ve still been a consistent user. The sole feature I appreciated was on the app I could download different panapto videos to a special folder within the app. This way I could simply and quickly locate the panapto videos I wanted to view without having to spend 5 minutes scrolling through hundreds of folders. Well with the new update that was released October 12th, 2016, this feature was removed. So now I am back to scrolling through hundreds of folders to find one video. This is extremely frustrating.

If you are a consumer looking to use the services of panapto and you have a audience that is heavily app based, I would strongly reccommend you find another company unless this app is redesigned to meet better standards. If it wasn’t for the fact that this is the how my institution records lectures I would happily remove this app. I strongly urge this apps develops to take a better approach.

johnsmith097 about Panopto, v5.1.2.3166