This tutorial emerged as we started to explore how a course developer might embed Canvas quizzes inside the full Panopto player. The idea was to build pauses into a single video, and when students view the video in the full Panopto player, each pause would display a Canvas quiz linked to the Canvas gradebook.

In short, this work flow will not work. Yes, one can embed URLs in a video via the Panopto editor; doing so will pause the video and display a URL that then loads the new page in the main frame of the Panopto player. However, there are two conditions: First, the URL must be secure (e.g. https). Second, the entity serving the URL (in our case, Canvas) must allow third-parties (like Panopto) to serve its content inside another platform. While Canvas meets the first, it does not allow the second. So while one can get the video to pause and load the cole2 log-in screen, it’s impossible to load a quiz inside Panopto’s full player.