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How to Create a New Folder

Overview
Folders are used as a way to help organize sessions. Every session belongs to a folder and only users assigned to a folder can create, record, view or edit those sessions.
Prerequisites
  • Creator access to Panopto

Who can use this feature?

Users with the Creator role or greater

Available to Basic, Pro, and Enterprise plans


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1. Create A New Folder
1.1.  On your Panopto site, select the + Create menu in the upper left corner, then select New Folder (Figs. 1a and 1b).


Left-hand navigation, Panopto portal. At the top, the button + Create is highlighted by a red box.
Figure 1a

Create menu, expanded. At the bottom, the option "New Folder" is highlighted by a red box.
Figure 1b
1.2.  In the Create Folder window that appears, provide the folder with a Name and Description, and select a Parent folder if applicable and then select Create Folder (Fig. 2). Optionally, you can select  Inherit permissions from the parent folder if you are creating a subfolder and would like the subfolder to share the same level of permissions as its parent folder. 

Note: Administrators will see an additional option, Add this folder to your My Folders list, which allows them to limit which folders appear within their My Folder on Panopto.

Create Folder pop-up window. On it, the fields are completed and the button "Create Folder" is highlighted by a red box.
Figure 2
2. Create a Subfolder from within a Folder 
To learn more about subfolder management, please visit our article, How to Use Subfolders
2.1. From within the desired parent folder, select the button Add folder (Fig. 3).
An open folder in Panopto. On it, the button "add folder" is highlighted by a red box.
Figure 3
2.2. A text cursor will appear and Add folder will change to Enter name. Type the name of the new folder and hit Enter (Fig. 4)

Parent folder. In it, the add folder button has been selected, and it now displays "Enter name." It is highlighted by a red box.
Figure 4
3. Create a Subfolder from the Browse Menu
3.1. Expand the Browse menu from the left-hand navigation and right-click the folder to which you want to add a folder. From the pop-up menu that appears, select New Subfolder (Fig. 5).

Browse menu, expanded. A folder has been right-clicked and the pop out menu appears with "New Subfolder" highlighted by a red box.
Figure 5
3.2. In the Create Folder window that appears, provide the folder with a Name and Description, and select a Parent folder if applicable and then select Create Folder (Fig. 6). Optionally, you can select Inherit permissions from the parent folder if you are creating a subfolder and would like the subfolder to share the same level of permissions as its parent folder.

Create Folder pop-up window. On it, the fields are completed and the button "Create Folder" is highlighted by a red box.
Figure 6

For more information on how to use Panopto with Canvas, please visit our Canvas documentation.


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