Echo360

Enjoy your own personal media library to store videos, slides, or other files. Your Echo360 video library serves as the default storage location for content uploads, which can be accessed through the Echo360 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.

Create reliable, high-quality recordings and live streams in the classroom or from anywhere using your personal computer. Echo360 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 Echo360, 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 with respect to 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. Clicking each 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.

Available right from the media details area, Echo360 offers simple browser-based editing options that allows 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 back to the original. Simply make and save changes to a video, and the published version is automatically updated or save it as a separate copy entirely.

To make content more accessible and engaging, all videos recorded or uploaded to Echo360 are provided a transcript and closed captioning through Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). While ASR isn't 100% accurate, some HPS jargon may get misinterpreted so Echo360 allows you to edit a transcript for accuracy, which also updates the closed captions on the video.

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

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.

Recording from a Classroom Computer

Echo360 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, Echo360 will record this as well. Recording classroom activities through Echo360 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 Echo360 app on the classroom computer. To learn more about ad hoc captures, use the isntructions in the 'Universal Capture (Personal) app' and 'Browser Capture' below.

**The default devices that Echo360 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. Echo360 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 Echo360 library, which can be accessed through Cardinal Apps.

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

Browser Capture

Echo360 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 Echo360'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 Echo360 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 for 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 live stream one, two, or specific dates... reach out to your site scheduler to request this to be turned on for those date/times.

Can I share a link to my live stream?

No. Live streams are only accessible through the Echo360 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

Echo360 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 Echo360 with your course, you'll need to connect the two. This can be done with a few clicks.

• Learn how to connect Echo360 to your Canvas course.

Once the course is connected, all media recorded for your course will show up from the Echo360 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.

Echo360 in the Rich Content Editor

Echo360 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.

Echo360 and Zoom are integrated together, which allows you to automatically upload your Zoom meeting recordings (and transcripts) to your Echo360 media library. Uploading Zoom recordings to your Echo360 library or course can be beneficial as Zoom doesn't offer many of Echo360's rich media features, which allows users to:

• Share Echo360 content through a variety of methods (public and private links, collections, etc.).
• Create ASR transcripts of recordings.
• Trim/stich together media recordings.
• Leverage unique Echo360 engagement tools.
• Gain insight into viewing and engagement analytics.

To leverage the benefits of Echo360 for your Zoom video recordings, learn how to get started by connecting Zoom to your Echo360 library.

Managing Content

Library Content

The default storage location for Echo360 is your personal library, which can be accessed through the Echo360 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 to anyone that opens the collection link.

• Learn how to create an Echo360 Collection
  • A guide to sharing Echo360 Collection content

Video Editing

Available right from the media details area, Echo360 offers simple browser-based editing options that allows 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 back to the original.

Transcript Editing

All videos recorded or uploaded to Echo360 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

Echo360 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 Echo360 are:

• All videos uploaded to Echo360 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 way to share content through Echo360.

• Link or embed Echo content in Canvas through the Rich Content Editor (RCE).
• Share content through the Echo360 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