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Panopto has launched three new video knowledge tools: Folio, AI Search and MCP Server. The products are designed to help organisations and educational institutions use recorded video content more easily.
The releases are meant to address a common problem in teaching and workplace training: large libraries of recorded lectures, training sessions and other internal videos often contain useful information, but users can struggle to find specific answers quickly.
Folio turns existing video material into study aids such as study guides, flashcards and practice quizzes. It also includes an AI tutor grounded in the source material, allowing users to work from content already stored in a Panopto library rather than relying on a general-purpose AI service.
AI Search lets users ask questions across a Panopto video library and receive a synthesised answer. Each response includes links to the source clip and timestamp, allowing users to return to the relevant part of a recording instead of manually searching through longer videos.
MCP Server is designed to connect Panopto content with approved third-party AI tools, including Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot. The connection preserves existing permissions and administrative controls, remains read-only, and does not allow organisational content to be used to train external AI models.
The move reflects a broader push by software providers to make archived enterprise and education content easier to search and reuse through generative AI tools, while retaining source attribution and access controls.
Panopto has built its business around lecture capture, training videos and internal knowledge management, and says the latest additions extend that role by making recorded content more interactive and searchable. Organisations can use the tools to turn existing recordings into learning material, answer questions from video libraries and surface internal knowledge inside AI assistants already used by staff.
Research cited by Panopto points to persistent friction in video-based learning and training. In its study, 77% of students said video-based learning saves them at least an hour of study time each week, but 38% said they still struggle to locate a particular topic within a recording.
In workplace settings, the challenge appears similar. Panopto says 68% of learning and development and training leaders report that most of their recorded video training is not searchable, while 51% say employees struggle because content is spread across too many systems and they are unsure where to look.
The company argues that the issue is no longer simply storing or sharing recordings, but making them usable at the moment someone needs an answer. That applies in universities, where students may need to revisit part of a lecture, and in workplaces, where employees may need to find a process explanation or product detail without contacting a colleague.
Stephen Laster outlined the company's view of how organisations are expected to use AI with recorded knowledge.
"For two decades, Panopto has helped institutions capture great teaching, training, and expertise and make it available to more people," said Stephen Laster, Chief Executive Officer, Panopto. "What changes now is how much more people can do with that knowledge. They can find the answer they need immediately, learn from it, and put it to use. AI makes new experiences possible, but the technology itself is not the outcome. The outcome is helping a student understand a difficult concept, helping an employee solve a problem without interrupting an expert, or bringing trusted organizational knowledge into the tools people already use every day."
Panopto's latest releases place recorded video at the centre of a broader knowledge workflow, from revision and training reinforcement to question-answering and AI assistant integration. Access controls from the company's existing platform carry across to the new products, with the aim of keeping trusted internal material available in systems users already rely on.