Recording on a computer and uploading to Panopto without using the Panopto software

This is one option on some operating systems, where there is no Panopto Recorder software (such as Linux).  The easiest alternative in this case is the browser-based Panopto Capture. However if this is insufficient and you want to use your own software for recording then it is possible to record content using some other software, and then upload it to the Lecture Capture site:

Go to the Lecture Capture website, and choose “Create -> Upload Media”.  Your file should be a mp4 file.  Once it is uploaded into Panopto, you can follow the editing and post-production instructions in the separate links on the side of the main Panopto guidance page. 

On Linux, to record pdf slides with audio, you could use the Kazam application and a microphone. If you also wanted to display a webcam feed of yourself you could use guvcview. A brief demonstration of that is below.

On Linux, to record live handwriting with a visualiser, you could use the software OBS Studio to record the video stream.