Virtual tours for schools, colleges and universities
An open day that never closes. Let families and students walk the classrooms, labs, sports halls and accommodation from anywhere in the world, then book the visit.
In short
A virtual campus tour links 360° photos of the places a prospective student or parent would see on an open day. In Panoramr you group them into areas such as Science, Sport and Accommodation, add notes, video and a campus map, translate the tour for international applicants, and embed it on your admissions pages. Making it is free; hosting it without Panoramr’s branding costs from £59 a year, in a Vault of up to 100 photos.
- Photos needed
- A school 20 to 50; a university campus 60 or more
- Organised by
- Groups: buildings, departments, accommodation
- Hosting
- From £59 a year, in a Vault of up to 100 photos
- International
- Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Arabic
How schools and universities use a tour
Open days all year
Families who cannot travel, or who missed the day, still walk the school before they apply.
International recruitment
Applicants overseas see the campus and the halls in their own language before they accept a place.
Accommodation
Students compare halls and room types, and see the kitchen they will share.
Facilities for hire
Sports halls, theatres and conference rooms shown to clubs and companies who hire them.
What to photograph
Follow your open-day route. Photograph rooms empty of pupils, or with written permission.
How to take the photos- The main entrance and reception
- A typical classroom and a lecture theatre
- Science labs, art and music rooms
- The library and study spaces
- Sports hall, pitches and pool
- Dining hall and social spaces
- Each type of accommodation, and its kitchen
- Support services: careers, wellbeing, the medical room
- The grounds and the way from the station
Two ways to get the photos
A tour is a 360° photo of each space, linked together. Who takes them is up to you.
Hire a professional
A 360° photographer shoots each space and hands you the photos. Many build the whole tour in Panoramr too, and hand it over to your account, ready to publish.
Take your own
With a 360° camera and a tripod, one press takes a whole room. Export the photos from the camera’s app and upload them.
What schools and universities use most
Floors and areas
Group the scenes by building, department or hall, so a visitor goes straight to Engineering or to the halls.
How it worksFive more languages
Translate the tour into Spanish, French, German, Chinese or Arabic. Visitors switch with one click on a paid plan or a hosted tour.
How it worksVideo in the scene
Play a welcome from the head, or a student’s film of the course, inside the tour.
How it worksFloor plan with a live map
A campus map with each scene pinned on it, and a cone that shows where the visitor is looking.
How it worksA text version of the tour
Switch on the Accessibility Line and visitors can open a plain text version: each room’s name, description, links and info text.
How it worksColleagues on the tour
Let colleagues in admissions, estates and marketing work on the tour with you.
How it works
How a tour is made
- 1
Upload your photos
Open Create Tour, give the tour a name and drop your photos in. No sign-up and no card. They are prepared in your browser, and the tour uploads by itself when they are ready.
- 2
Design it
Choose a theme, then make it yours: colours, menus, buttons and the look of each hotspot. Choose where visitors start looking in each room.
- 3
Link the rooms
Add hotspots so visitors can walk from one room to the next, and add text, pictures, video or a floor plan where they help.
- 4
Keep it
Create a free account and the tour is yours. A guest tour is deleted after 2 days.
- 5
Put it online
Publish it free with Panoramr’s branding, or buy a Vault for it to take the branding off.
- 6
Share it
Paste its embed code into your website, and send its link by email or post it on social media.
What it costs
Making the tour is free. A school fits a Vault; a university with several campuses hosts them on a plan.
Free
£0
Publish up to 10 tours, 250 photos in all, with Panoramr’s branding.
- The free Default Theme, in your colours
- A Panoramr start screen and badge over the tripod
- Listed on Panoramr’s Explore page
- Embed it on your own website
Vault 100
Suggested£59 a year
Hosts one tour of up to 100 photos. Pay once for one, three or five years, or yearly until you stop. You need no plan.
- No Panoramr branding: no start screen and no logo
- Your own design in any theme, Pro themes included
- Your logo and words on the patch over the tripod
- Private, by link only, or listed on Explore
Pro
£99 a year
Several tours? Pro hosts 250 photos at once with no Panoramr branding, shared by all of them, on one bill.
- Upload up to 1,000 panoramas
- Host up to 250 panoramas with no Panoramr branding
- Every Pro theme on your tours
- Your tour in other languages, with a switch for visitors
- Download your tour as a ZIP, in your own design
- Your own branding, private or published
- Hand a tour over to your client
Questions
How much does a virtual campus tour cost?
Making it is free. Hosting it without our branding costs from £59 a year, in a Vault of up to 100 photos. Bigger campuses can use the Pro or Agency plan.
Can we keep the tour private to applicants?
Yes. A hosted tour can be open only to people with its link, and kept off Panoramr’s Explore page.
Can several staff work on it?
Yes. Invite colleagues to the tour as Viewers, Editors or Admins.
Is there a text version for accessibility?
Switch on the Accessibility Line and visitors can open a plain text version of the tour. Keyboard users can reach hotspots with Tab.
Can we update it each year?
Yes. Replace a scene’s photo after building work, and its hotspots and links stay.
Ways to share it
On your own website
Copy the embed code from the tour’s Publish tab and paste it into your page. It works with WordPress, Squarespace, Wix and most other sites.
How to embed a tourBy its link
Send the tour’s address by email, put it in a booking confirmation or a newsletter, or post it on social media.
On Explore
Panoramr’s gallery of tours, with buttons to share yours on X, Facebook, LinkedIn and by email. A free tour is always listed there; a hosted one only if you want.
Only with your team
Keep it private while you work on it, and invite colleagues or your web designer to view or edit it with you.
Related industries
- Museums, Galleries & HeritageKeep every exhibition online after it closes, with a spoken guide and notes on the works.
- Gyms, Clubs & LeisureShow members the gym floor, the pool and the clubhouse, and fans the view from their seat.
- Offices & CoworkingFill desks and let floors: show the workspace, the meeting rooms and the kitchen before the viewing.
Open your doors to everyone
Make the campus tour free, in your own design. Pay only when it goes online without our branding.