EchoVideo

Enjoy a personal media library to store videos, slides, or other files. Your EchoVideo library serves as the default storage location for content uploads, which can be accessed through the EchoVideo tile within Cardinal Apps. Similar to your personal OneDrive, only you have access to view and manage your library items. Additionally, you can share content with others, or collaborate using the collections feature.

Create reliable, high-quality recordings and live streams in the classroom or from anywhere using your personal computer. EchoVideo provides the opportunity to record two video inputs side-by-side in one video recording, which can prove useful for lecture content full of accompanying materials and slides or classrooms with multiple cameras and screens.

With EchoVideo, instructors have access to analytical data at the video, class, learner, and course level to show how engaged everyone is with the materials before, during, and after class. This not only helps identify what is working but also helps identify at-risk learners. Configurable analytics are adaptable to any instructional method or class type. Each course/section includes analytics about student engagement and classroom participation, including:

• Classes Data
  • Aggregated student participation and engagement data for each class in the course.
• Student Data
  • Aggregated participation and engagement data for each student across all classes in the course.
• Weighting
  • The Weighted Engagement score shown in the Student Analytic data is a calculation of student engagement based on metric weighting that you customize to make that figure meaningful to you.
• Engagement
  • Allows you to see a list of students who are lagging behind the other students in the course concerning engaging with the materials. You may wish to follow up with these students. The Engagement tab also provides a consolidated list of Confused Flag locations marked by students in the course. Opening a Confusion entry takes you to the classroom location where the flag was identified.
• LMS Gradebook
  • Allows you to export any one of four different student data metrics to your LMS Gradebook.

You can make simple edits to your content directly from the media details area using Echo360. These changes are non-destructible and can be saved as a separate copy or reverted to the original. Once you make and save changes to a video, the published version is automatically updated, or you can save it as a separate copy.

To enhance accessibility and engagement, all videos recorded or uploaded to EchoVideo are provided with a transcript and closed captioning using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). ASR is not 100% accurate, some technical jargon may be misinterpreted. EchoVideo allows you to edit the transcript for accuracy, which will also update the closed captions on the video.

Review their commitment to accessibility: Accessibility at Echo360 - Guiding principles, commitments, and values.

EchoVideo has some flipped learning elements integrated within the class video player, namely a thread-based class discussion tool called Q&A. Students and instructors can post a question or discussion topic on a video, allowing others to respond anonymously or not. The posts can be linked to a specific timestamp and/or slide content, too.

For live-streamed content, Q&A discussion threads are available in real time and remain available for any asynchronous viewing.

This feature is turned on by default, but instructors can turn the feature off in their course settings.

Recording from a Classroom Computer

EchoVideo is installed in a multitude of classrooms across the Health Profession sites. This software will record the room's classroom computer and audio system, which includes the microphone and device sound.** If the room has a camera installed, EchoVideo will record this as well. Recording classroom activities through EchoVideo allows everyone in the classroom and those viewing asynchronously to have a consistent experience.

Instructors can request a scheduled capture of a particular classroom by filling out the Lecture Capture Form or they can start their ad hoc captures with the EchoVideo app on the classroom computer. To learn more about ad hoc captures, use the instructions in the 'Universal Capture (Personal) app' and 'Browser Capture' below.

**The default devices that EchoVideo records can be adjusted if needed. Contact your local Technical Support Specialist for more info.

Recording from a Personal Computer

Not teaching in a classroom but still want to record your lecture?

No problem. EchoVideo offers two methods to capture recordings on the go from a personal Windows or macOS device.

Universal Capture (Personal) App

The Universal Capture (Personal) app is available for Windows and macOS and offers an identical experience to the one used in the classrooms, except you cannot schedule recordings when using the personal capture app. Once you're finished recording, your recording will automatically upload to your EchoVideo library, which can be accessed through Cardinal Apps.

• Install the Universal Capture (Personal) app.
• Log in and out of the Universal Capture (Personal) app.
• Learn how to start a recording with the personal capture app

Browser Capture

EchoVideo also offers the capture experience directly from any web browser, which means there's nothing to install or download. This method doesn't offer the option to live stream and it's recommended to use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Firefox for the best experience.

• Learn how to record with EchoVideo's browser capture
  
  • Please note there are some known issues with the browser-based capture. See the 'Known Issues' at the bottom of the page above.
• Differences between the EchoVideo browser capture vs the Universal Capture (Personal) app.

Live Streaming

Live Streaming from a Personal Computer

Turning your recording into a live stream is easy and only requires a box to be checked, and a course for the recording to be published to. For a detailed guide, check out 'Live Streaming with Universal Capture.

Live Streaming from a Scheduled Classroom Recording

If you have someone else schedule your content for you, make sure to check the 'Live Streaming' box when submitting the Lecture Capture form. Alternatively, notify your site scheduler of the course dates/times you'd like to have live-streamed.

Can this be retroactively changed?

Yes. If you initially schedule a string of classroom recordings and decide to livestream one, two, or specific dates... reach out to your site scheduler to request this to be turned on for those dates/times.

Can I share a link to my livestream?

No. Live streams are only accessible through the EchoVideo tile within Canvas.** Learn how to access and view live streams. 

**Users at the School of Osteopathic Medicine should contact Anita Reyes if they need to view a live stream for a course.

Canvas Integration

EchoVideo is integrated into Canvas as a menu item, which is how most instructors at UIW use the platform. To share content with students, instructors have the choice to manually upload content into the Echo menu within Canvas, or schedule classroom recordings to automatically upload media content.

Steps to Provide Access to Students

By default, all students in a course will be able to view your Echo content. However, before students can see recorded content and for you to start using EchoVideo with your course, you'll need to connect the two. This can be done with a few clicks.

• Learn how to connect EchoVideo to your Canvas course.

Once the course is connected, all media recorded for your course will show up from the EchoVideo menu item for you and your students. You will now have the option to choose your course as a destination for recordings, including scheduling automated captures through the Lecture Capture Request Form.

EchoVideo in the Rich Content Editor

EchoVideo can be found in the Rich Content Editor (RCE) within Canvas. While content is normally found through the navigation menu, this function can provide a bevy of opportunities for instructors and students to upload and attach media to discussion responses, module pages, file uploads, etc.

• Learn how to link or embed a video into the Canvas RCE
  • This link contains both a written and short video guide, meaning it's great for sharing with students.

Managing Content

Library Content

The default storage location for EchoVideo is your library, which can be accessed through the EchoVideo tile within Cardinal Apps. Similar to your personal OneDrive, only you have access to view and manage your library items but you can share content with others, or collaborate using the collections feature.

Collections

Collections are like playlists, allowing users to add a 'collection' of videos into one place. You can control the permissions for others as you grant them access to the collection. These permissions can be robust or simple and include an auto-enroll option for anyone who opens the collection link.

• Learn how to create an EchoVideo Collection
  • A guide to sharing EchoVideo Collection content

Video Editing

Available right from the media details area, EchoVideo offers simple browser-based editing options that allow users to simply make and save changes to a piece of content. All edits are non-destructible and can either be saved as a separate copy of the video or reverted to the original.

Transcript Editing

All videos recorded or uploaded to EchoVideo are provided a transcript and closed captioning through Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). While ASR isn't 100% accurate, some HPS jargon might be misinterpreted, however, you may access the media details page to edit a transcript for accuracy, which also updates the closed captions on the video.

Sharing Content

EchoVideo offers a variety of methods to share content with others, and each method leverages the platform's rich media features. Once an item has been uploaded, instructors can access and share that content through a variety of methods. Some notable features of uploading and sharing with EchoVideo are:

• All videos uploaded to EchoVideo will automatically have an English transcript and closed captioning applied to the video.
• Uploading content to a course offers an easy and seamless way for students to view content within Canvas.
• Unlimited, secured storage space.
• Can upload and share various file formats, not just videos.
• Offers a variety of convenient, quick, and customizable methods to share your library content (See below).

View the resources below to learn about the various ways to share content through EchoVideo.

• Link or embed Echo content in Canvas through the Rich Content Editor (RCE).
• Share content through the EchoVideo menu within your Canvas course.
• Share content directly, with a dedicated sharing link/embed code to an individual piece of media.

Class Discussions

Echo360 has some flipped learning elements integrated within the class video player, namely a thread-based class discussion tool called Q&A. Students and instructors can post a question or discussion topic on a video, allowing others to respond anonymously or not. The posts can be linked to a specific timestamp and/or slide content, too.

For live-streamed content, Q&A discussion threads are available in real time and remain available for any asynchronous viewing.

This feature is turned on by default, but instructors can turn the feature off in their course settings.

Interactive Media

Interactive media can be created by adding a poll to almost any piece of media uploaded to Echo360. Instructors can use polls to highlight learning moments or create a 'gate' on the video playback such that students must answer the polling question before they can proceed.

• Embedding polling and interactive media - Overview
• Adding polls to create interactive media