EchoVideo: Scheduled Appliance Guide (Pod/Pro)

Summary

View/download instructions on using an Appliance for scheduled class recordings. If you have Live Stream enabled for your classes students will see a Live badge on the classes list page and the view your classes remotely. You can combine student learning experience by using the classroom tools or embed presentations with polls or use both methods.

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Overview

A room with an Appliance installed will record, your projected screen content from the podium computer, audio, and you teaching at the podium. We have over 75+ Appliances installed on campusview our Classroom Equipment and Technology Article. 

New to using an Appliance room? Please view our handout "Scheduled Appliance Guide" on the right side of the page under the Attachments section.

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Recording Sensitive Information

While recording your class lectures, do not check grades, email, or anything confidential which violates FERPA policy. All content is recorded and will be available to students whether scheduled to start automatically or started and stopped manually. 

Need to trim or cut out sensitive information? You can edit your video directly in your browser, view a library of help articles on using the Media Editor in EchoVideo.

Before Class - Add a Presentation to your Scheduled Capture

Faculty can enrich their scheduled classroom recording(s) by uploading a PowerPoint or PDF to match their in-class instruction. This makes the recording more interactive and accessible for students. Presentations can include embedded links, images, and polls. You can control when your students see specific slides. You can control when your students see specific slides. EchoVideo: For Instructors: Showing Polling Slide Results in Class – Support

To add a presentation:

  1. Open your Canvas course.
  2. Click the EchoVideo tab in the menu.
  3. Next to scheduled class, click the pink  icon.
  4. Click “Add Presentation” and choose how you are adding your file.

Need help? View this quick guide: Add an Interactive Presentation 

Each Class (things to check)

  1. Turn on the podium computer and log in. 
  2. Always check that the microphone is at the podium and plugged in, you should see a red light.

    Classroom Podium with Doc Cam and microphones
    Important Note: If there is no microphone (see sample image above) or its not plugged in, audio will not be recorded. Make sure the microphone is facing toward you. 
     
  3. Teach as you normally would all screen content is recorded. Example: PowerPoint, PDF, content on a web page etc. Record whatever you want your students to learn.

Student Engagement in your Course

All scheduled classes are published to your EchoVideo course automatically. If you need to trim or cut segments out of your class lecture, use the Media Editor in your Library then share your media in Canvas.

With an EchoVideo course you have lecture tools for both the instructors and students. You have tools to engage students in various ways example(s): Q&A and Discussion, Interactive Presenations, Polling slides, and media slides (share video clips from YouTube, Vimeo, TedTalk, Khan Academy etc.), you can even seen video heatmaps of where content has been watched the most by your students.

Interactive Presentation

  • Add an Interactive presentation - Add a PowerPoint or PDF that is in parity to your class recording. Click the pink + button within your EchoVideo course.

Discussion and Q&A in your Class

Analytics in your Course

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Article ID: 115985
Created
Thu 9/10/20 3:01 PM
Modified
Mon 8/25/25 1:05 PM

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​​​​​​​This guide is for faculty teaching in a room with an Appliance (Pod or Pro) who want to control their classroom recording allowing them to start, stop, or pause as needed. A room link is needed for each class. Download the (PDF) instructions on the right side of the page under the Attachments section.
EchoVideo provides engagement tools, allows faculty to record videos anywhere, and share content in Canvas. Works with Teams, OneDrive, and Zoom (pro-account only).

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