Case Study: Northwest University achieves campus-wide lecture capture and boosts student engagement with Panopto

Northwest University - Customer Case Study

Northwest University, a private Christian university in Kirkland, WA, needed a way to keep students learning during disruptions like the H1N1 outbreak and to reduce the note-taking burden that left students unable to fully engage in class. Administrators sought a simple, cost‑effective lecture‑capture solution that faculty could adopt easily and that would keep classes accessible to absent, traveling, or international students.

They deployed the Panopto video content management system campus-wide and integrated it with Moodle, giving faculty one-click recording, browser editing, searchable transcripts and mobile access. Adoption drove major usage growth (43x increase in video hours uploaded, 22x increase in uploads and 9x increase in views over three years) and produced measurable benefits: improved engagement and retention, support for flipped classrooms and remote learners, enhanced faculty feedback, and even new-student recruitment.

Northwest University

Waldemar Kowalski

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