EchoVideo Help - Main Page

| How do I schedule a Lecture Capture (or series of Classes)?

Submit a ticket via our course request form. For scheduled classes, Live Stream or adhoc recordings. Scheduled classes will start and stop at the designated times. Ad-hoc classroom recording is something that you are controlling when the class starts recordings and stops. View Classrooms with EchoVideo

Scheduled or adhoc class recordings will be available ~1-2 hrs after class, this depends on the length of the class and where your recording is at in the queue with others. Once, processed the recording(s) will be seen in your Library. Your EchoVideo course will automatically list all scheduled recording including those with Live Stream allowing students to attend class virtually. The instructor can choose to delay the availability dates should they need to for editing or other reasons. All published recordings will be available for students to access for the entire semester.

Your EchoVideo course(s) can be accessed through Canvas via the EchoVideo tab in your Canvas menu or from echo360.org (login with your SVSU email address and password, it is not synced with your SVSU password).

Resources

• EchoVideo: Control a Universal Capture Recording – Support
• Accessing Classes in your EchoVideo Course through Canvas
• Accessing Classes from echo360.org

| Live Streaming

Its easy and recommended to Live Stream your classes for flexibility for your students. You can request Live Stream for your scheduled classes or can start them on your own from a Classroom or from your computer. EchoVideo tracks ALL usage (video views) hourly regardless of how it was viewed or captured. 

To Live Stream a ad-hoc recording in a Classroom, make sure you click the Live Streaming check box. To automatically have Live Stream enabled with your classes, be sure to let us know when you fill out the course request form.

• Live Streaming Overview
• Record a Live Stream with Universal Capture (Personal)
• Access and View Your Classes with Live Stream
• Monitoring after a Live Stream 

Important Notes about Live Streaming Classes

• Control the availability of your scheduled classes with Live Stream. Select the box on the course request form to to delay the recordings.
• Control the availability of your classes for scheduled or adhoc recordings, choose date-based availability.
  • EchoVideo: Editing Availability Settings for Published Content – Support (echo360.com)

| Live Stream in a Classroom

• Lecture Capture and Live Stream
• Classrooms with EchoVideo

You can upload content created in another tool or platform and store it in your EchoVideo Library and post to Canvas. There is is a 20GB file size limit. The file you upload must be a Supported Content Format or it will fail to upload. Note: If you use Teams or have media stored on your OneDrive you can set up automatic syncing to your Library.

• How to save a PowerPoint Presentation as an MP4
• Upload Media to your EchoVideo Library

| Managing Your Library Media

All content recorded with EchoVideo capture tools or those that have been uploaded or synced from Teams or OneDrive can be managed and edited before sharing with students. Create a Collection and share with others then set permissions on what you are allowing members to do with your media. Set up notifications for things that are important to you like capture processing and engagement, they are seen via the bell icon. Visit your Account Settings page. The resources below include instructions for managing and editing your media.

Library Media

• Library: Your Content Library (view, download, delete and restore media)
• Recycle Bin: Restore Content from your Recycle Bin (restore content up to 6 months)
• Uploading content: EchoVideo: Uploading Media (audio, video, PowerPoint, or PDF)
• In-app (bell) notifications: Setting up Notifications (capture/transcript processing and engagement activity)
• Teams access: Using Teams in EchoVideo (access your content in Teams)
• OneDrive syncing: Using OneDrive with EchoVideo (sync your Teams or OneDrive recordings)
• See all manage content articles 

Using the Media Editor

• Video Editing (edit your audio or video)
• See all editing media articles

Sharing Media with Others

Media you own in your Library can be shared with other EchoVideo users. When you share media with others the media appears in their Library, your name shows on the media as you are still the owner. See what actions are available when media is shared with you.

• Sharing/Unsharing EchoVideo Media with Other Users
   

Using Collections in EchoVideo

Collections are used outside of a Canvas and accessed in a EchoVideo Library. Owners or those with add/upload permission can add any media to a collection. Owners can set permissions for each added member from pre-set roles to custom roles. Collections can be created by users with an Instructor or TA role in EchoVideo. 

• Collections in EchoVideo Quick Guide - SVSU Support
• Creating and Using Collections - Echo360 Support 

Transcripts and captions are not the same​​. Transcripts are processed on all audio or video media when captured or uploaded to EchoVideo (since Fall 2023), videos longer than 4 hours will not be transcribed. Because the Automatic Speech Recognition (provided by EchoVideo) is machine generated it is ~90% accurate. Inaccuracies can occur with background noise, speaking too fast, a thick accent, and vocabulary in your teaching discipline.

Captioning audio and video content Guidelines. If you are reusing content, it is essential that you edit your transcript for accuracy in the event you have a student with visual or audio challenges. There is a transcript editor available inside of your Library. Once your transcript is edited, it must be 99% accurate, before you can apply Closed Captions (CC).

Transcriptions and Applying CC

• Transcripts & Captioning with EchoVideo
• Universal Design - Content Accessibility

Quickly reuse, record new, or upload videos right in Canvas's Rich Text Editor does not require you to have a course as long as you have an Echo360 user account you can embed your videos in Canvas. All embedded videos will import successfully to other Canvas courses. 

Benefits of embedding media in Canvas

• Recommended for Asynchronous Classes: Quickest and easiest method for posting videos.
• Access the easy embed button: Look for the electric plug icon in the toolbar.
• Features: You can embed audio, video, or interactive media into Canvas content types (e.g., Announcement, Assignment, Discussion, Page, Quizzes, or Syllabus). Easily embed existing media individually or create a Playlist. 
• Expiration: Students can always access embedded media as long as your course or content type is published.
• Student access: Computer or mobile device (Android or iOS). 
• Supported Browsers: Lastest version of Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge, or the Canvas student app.
• Gradebook: Coming soon in Winter 2025

Using the Easy Embed Tool via the Rich Content Editor (RCE)

• Reuse content 
  • Embedding Videos in Canvas (super easy)
  • Post an embedded link to the media
  • Create a playlist with multiple pieces of media and embed it
• Discussion panel: Monitoring Discussion Comments

Requires faculty to request a new course/section each semester. Provides a shortcut access to your Library, Courses, Collections, and the Create button.

When you fill our our course request form an admin creates your course(s) which is most common for scheduled classes/Live Stream, creating ad-hoc classroom or publishing personal recordings. A EchoVideo course provides a virtual classroom and tools that instructors, teaching assistants, and students can utilize before, during, or after class.

​​| Course Features

Some quick reminders on having a Echo360 course are below:

• Recommended for Synchronous and Asynchronous Classes: Allows students to access classes in real-time or after class.
• Access via the EchoVideo tab: Located in the Canvas menu.
• Features: The virtual classroom allows students to attend class in real-time. Instructors have the capability to provide a PowerPoint or other supplemental material to a class. Instructors can view student participation, set engagement metrics for your course, and more. 
• Expiration: Students can access published content in a from the start and end date of the current semester only.
• Student access: Computer only
• Supported Browsers: Lastest version of Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge
• Gradebook: You can create an Assignment and push points to the Canvas gradebook.
  Explore this article: EchoVideo: Adding an EchoVideo Link to a Canvas Course – Support (echo360.com)

​​| Classroom Features for Students

• Classes: Allow students to rewatch what was taught during an in-person class or an online class.
• Q&A: Allows students to post and respond to discussions related to the class.
• Notes: Allows students to take notes while watching which at time stamped.
• Study Guide: Automatically created when students take Notes or create bookmarks.
• Presentation: Allows students to follow along with a PowerPoint presentation at their pace.
• Polls: Allows students to answer polls you have added to a PowerPoint presentation or to a video.

| Help articles

• Sharing Media from your Library to a Course
• Adding a Video to a Class inside of a Course
• Adding Interactive Media to a Course

| Enhance Student Learning and Participation

There are various tools available to increase learning retention, participation, and analyze student performance. 

Adding Polls

Instructors can use polls to check for student understanding and increase their participation in class topics. There are 5 different poll questions to choose from - ​Multiple choice, Short answer, Image poll, Ordered list, and Numerical. 

• Add embedded polling slides to a video gate student learning, students can only answer the poll once. Can embed to the Rich Text Editor or publish to an EchoVideo course.
• Add embedded polling to presentations and get feedback during class or a Live Stream. Students can answer the poll until you close it. Used within an EchoVideo course.

Using Disussion and Q&A

• Use Q&A and allow students to participate publicly or anonymously, great for students who may be apprehensive to ask questions.

| Student Analytics

No matter how you publish your content EchoVideo provides usage Analytics, this is different from Canvas Analytics. There are 2 ways to access student engagement Analytics in Canvas. Data includes all student names and their participation.

Course/Section Analytics - Features

On the course home page, click Analytics tab. View Analytics (aggregated data) by class and/or students, additionally, monitor student participation, identify the least engaged students, view confusion flags, and more. Set weighting metrics for your classes, and push points to the Canvas gradebook. 

• Classes: Overall student participation and engagement in each class.

• Students: Shows participation and engagement data for each student across all classes published in the course.

• Weighting: Choose from preset metric weighting or custom the metrics for what is important to you, the metrics set correlate with what you set for engagement.

• Engagement: You will see the list of students with the least participation and a list of confused flag locations that students marked, clicking a confusion flag will open the class. Another way you can see where there could be content that students find confusing is by viewing the hotspots overlaid on the video in the class.

• LMS Gradebook: Decide what metric you want to export to the Canvas Gradebook, there are four different metrics you can export. Note: You must have already created an Assignment link inside of Canvas.

Hotspots/Heatmap in a Classroom

Both students and instructors can turn on or off the “hotspots” in a video or heatmap, when enabled a graphical overlay appears of where what segments of the media has been watched the most by users.

• EchoVideo: Course Analytics - Overview
• See all Course Analytics articles

Media Analytics for all Classroom or Embedded media (granular data)

In the Canvas menu, you can view media Analytics (embedded media via the Rich Text Editor and/or published media to a EchoVideo course) in one consolidated location, click the EchoVideo Course Analytics tab. The Views tab includes all playable media. The Polls tab includes polling response information for presentations or interactive media. 

• View all Analytics for embedded or course media
• See more on how to access and interpret data 

Save time and extra clicks. Enable or subscribe OneDrive folders or Teams recordings to your Library. Automatically import and publish videos made to your Library. You don't have to be using Teams to set up a OneDrive subscription. Additionally, if you use Teams you can add the Echo360 app for a one stop access to your content. If you have Zoom (pro Account) your recordings will automatically publish to your Library.  View our knowledge base articles below:

• Connect OneDrive recordings to EchoVideo
• Access EchoVideo in Microsoft Teams
• Zoom meetings copy to EchoVideo (pro Account only)

Students will have access to media inside of Canvas. There are a few ways for students to access lecture recordings or presentations based on how it was shared to Canvas.  Note: A supported browser like Chrome, Edge, or Firefox must be used to view content on a computer. If students say they cannot view your videos, have them clear the cache and cookies in their browser, or try an alternative browser. Explore our EchoVideo Student Guide.

View Media in an EchoVideo Course

Provides all media in a class list and includes several engagement tools to use during or after class. EchoVideo allows various ways to engage students and help increase their learning. Tools like Discussion, Q&A, and Polls, are used to engage students during class or after class. Benefits for an EchoVideo course include:

• Students can watch a missed lecture(s).
• Students can take Notes, ask Questions, and review a class or lesson recording at their own pace.
• Students can participate in Discussion and respond to polling questions.
• Students that take Notes will automatically have a study guide.

Student Help Guides for an EchoVideo Course

The engagement tools are available for all classes including Live Streamed classes. Students can:

• Ask a Question or View a Discussion in a Class  
• Take Notes and Use the Study Guide in a Class
• Flag and Bookmark Content in a Class
• Respond to Polling Slides in a Presentations
• Respond to Videos with Embedded Polling Questions

View Embedded Media in Canvas

EchoVideo provides students access to watch recordings directly in Canvas Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, and Quizzes which can be in a Canvas module.

The embedded video player provides a Discussion tool for Q&A to engage in conversation, students can ask questions. Embedded videos can be accessed on a computer with a supported browser (Chrome, Edge, or Firefox) while logged into Canvas or a via the Canvas student app (Android or iOS).

Student Help Guides for Embedded Videos

• Viewing and Participate in Discussion for Embedded Videos
• Responding to Polling Questions