Echo360 is a versatile and reliable system that automatically captures lectures and converts classroom voice, video, and visual-aids into high-quality media files. These media files can be accessed online from devices such as tablets, phones, and computers. Instructors can also utilize Universal Capture (Personal), which allows them to record from their own computers.
Echo360 for mobile
Android (Android 5.0 and up)
Apple (iOS 9.1 or later)
Advantages of Echo360
Content and Slide Upload
You can upload a slide or content from your computer or popular cloud storage options such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and OneDrive into a presentation.
Active Learning Tools
Instructors who use Echo360 can utilize active learning tools such as: image quizzes, multiple choice, short answer, Q&A discussions, and confusion flags.
Custom Study Guides
Besides viewing your notes, you can edit your notes, edit or remove the timestamp/location tag for each note, these notes can be collected into a Study Guide to help your students review for the class.
Sharing Content
Instructors decide how they would like to share their Echo360 recordings. Recordings can be automatically published to Blackboard or shared with individual students who missed class or were excused.
Engagement Reporting
Echo360 allows you to see engagement reporting on your classes. This allows you to see how students are responding to your videos and that they tend to review the most.
Q&A Thread
The Q&A tab for the course allows you to post questions or comments about the course in general or about a particular class. You can design the questions to elicit responses from students or to provoke discussions between class members on a topic.
ASR Transcription Services
Echo360 provides Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcription services. This an option that CELT staff can activate for a course if the instructor submits a request. It is the responsibility of the instructor to review and edit transcriptions once they are complete.
Lecture Recording
Instructors who are teaching in classrooms that have Echo360 hardware installed can request that their lectures be recorded. If you are not teaching in a classroom that is properly equipped or would like to record lectures from your office, you can use Universal Capture (personal) to record with your personal computer.
Instructor FAQ’s
Ad hoc captures are impromptu recordings, generated by telling a capture appliance or a Universal Capture installation to begin recording immediately.
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Follow the instructions below to connect Echo360 ALP and your Blackboard course. Completing the steps below automatically creates your Echo360 account.
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- Login to Blackboard (blackboard.liu.edu) and navigate to your course.
- Go to Content > tools > Echo360 PLatform.
- Check the box in the Available column for “Echo360 ALP” and click Submit. Make the Echo360 ALP Tool Available
- Add an Echo360 ALP Tool Link to the Course Menu
- Click the plus sign (+) at the top left of your Blackboard course menu. Select Tool Link.
- Enter a name for the link and select Echo360 ALP from the drop-down menu.
- Check the Available to Users box and click Submit.
- Set Up an Echo360 ALP Section
- Click the Echo360 ALP link in your Blackboard course to go to the Echo360 website.
Note: If the link does not launch, turn off your pop-up blocker and try again. - Choose your section from the drop-down list, or create a new one.
- Click Continue to Echo360
- Your Echo360 account will be automatically created using the email address associated with your Blackboard account. After your account is created, you will receive an email notification with a link to create an Echo360 ALP password. (If you do not receive an email, go to www.echo360.org and click the “Forgot your password?” link.)
For detailed instructions, see Set Up a Section in Echo360 ALP
- Click the Echo360 ALP link in your Blackboard course to go to the Echo360 website.
- Login to Echo360 ALP
After your account is created, you can login to Echo360 ALP in two ways:
- Click the Echo360 ALP Tool Link you added to Blackboard.
- Go to echo360.org and enter your email and Echo360 password.
Currently, the Echo360 enabled rooms are as follows
Brooklyn – HS119, HS107, LLC 124 and LLC 122
Post – LS 137, Ls 139, LS 141
Availability simply determines whether a Student can view media in the class where it’s published. Meaning you can publish media to a class, but not allow students to see it until a certain date, or not allow them to see it after a certain date.
When captures are published to a section, the publishing settings include Availability. This may be on the capture schedule, or in the dialog box provided for manually publishing media to a class. Availability allows the publisher to set a start and/or end date for making the capture available/unavailable for student viewing.
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Universal Capture is the interface/software used to create Echo360 recordings. You can download Universal Capture from Echo360 onto your personal computer, and generate recordings to share with your classes or groups, or if you are a student, to submit for a homework assignment. This version is called Universal Capture: Personal also referred to as UC: Personal.
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In order for students to access Echo360 content, an Instructor or an Admin must add an Echo360 content link to the course.
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Student FAQ’s
Being “in the classroom” means viewing the content or media in the class, and interacting with the media in some way. You can watch the class as it was recorded, as well as view any other presentation materials that may have been shared in the classroom.
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Watching a live class is nearly the same experience as a pre-recorded (or video on demand) class, regardless of your role. The main differences are:
- The video stream you are viewing cannot be rewound/fast-forwarded; it is happening in real-time. You can show/hide the stream, and you can mute the stream.
Due to your network connection speed, your live playback may fall behind real-time events (potentially becoming out of sync), in which case, a “catch up” button will become available. - Users can view the Live Attendance list to see who is actively viewing the Live Stream at the moment. The Live Attendance panel also lists all Instructors/TAs enrolled in the Section.
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You can download content from Echo360 from the Class List page if you need or want a local copy of the media for offline viewing or file manipulation outside of Echo360.
Be advised that some institutions restrict downloads to only the audio stream of the file. In this case, you will only get the audio stream of the video, and presentations cannot be downloaded from the class list.
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Currently, the Echo360 enabled rooms are as follows
Brooklyn – HS119, HS107, LLC 124 and LLC 122
Post – LS 137, Ls 139, LS 141