Panopto folders over a certain age (defined in the terms when using the Panopto Recorder) are deleted each year. To stop a folder being deleted, you can add a retention tag to the description of that folder.
To do this, open Blackboard and find the Panopto area of your course (by default this is called Recorded Sessions)
![The Blackboard course annoucements page. The page has no content. Recorded sessions is highlighted in the left hand menu](https://elearn.southampton.ac.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/64/2015/11/recordedsessions.png)
Once the Panopto interface has loaded on your course, select the ‘Settings’ cog icon in the top right of the Panopto display.
![](https://elearn.soton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/436/2019/09/panoptosettingscog2.png)
Select ‘Edit’ under the description area for the folder (there are a few edit links on this page).
![Panopto settings screen with edit under description highlighted](https://elearn.southampton.ac.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/64/2019/09/panoptodescriptionedit.png)
Type in this year’s retention tag to the description text box and press the blue text ‘Save’ button.
If the folder already has a description, add the retention tag at the end.
![Ret 2019 text added to the description textbox](https://elearn.southampton.ac.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/64/2019/09/panoptoretentiontag.png)