Case Study: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University achieves a modern, video-enhanced learning environment and higher student engagement with Panopto

Enhancing Teaching and Learning with a Flexible, Easy-To-Use Video Platform

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), a top Hong Kong research university serving over 28,000 students, needed a reliable video solution after years of trying to support lecture capture, meeting recording, and staff development. Demand from students and faculty for lecture recordings and new blended-learning approaches (like flipped classrooms, active learning, and richer feedback) had reached a tipping point, but existing tools (Blackboard and public YouTube) couldn’t meet the campus’s needs for ease, accessibility, or security.

PolyU adopted Panopto’s video platform, enabling simple recording from anywhere, built‑in editing, automatic captions, secure video content management with Blackboard integration, inside‑video search, and analytics. The result was rapid adoption across campus and measurable benefits: recorded lectures for revision, more in-class active learning, in‑video quizzes, student video assignments and feedback, and streamlined staff development—helping modernize teaching and improve student engagement and outcomes.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Ian Brown

Senior Educational Development Officer