Echo360 Lecture Capture

Commonly referred to as Echo, 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.

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Features 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.

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.

Schedule a Recording
Sharing Content

Instructors decide how they would like to share their Echo360 recordings. Recordings can be automatically published to Brightspace, or shared with individual students who missed class or were excused.

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. 

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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.

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.

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.  

Frequently Asked Questions

Instructors
Students

Instructors

To create a new section in Echo360, we will want to login to Blackboard, go to the course area that you want your link with Echo360 to appear (typically some content folder) and "Build Content" -> "Echo Cloud".

Now give the link a name. This may be something like "Course Videos", "Video Lectures", etc.

Click "Submit".

You now click on that link you just made.

Connect your Echo360 Content

Select the Term, Select your Course, and then select "Create a New Section". 

Enter the Section Number in the form 01, 02 etc.

Description is optional

Click Save

Now Click the lighter blue button that says "Link Content"

You can now begin to upload content to your course for this section by clicking New Class.  A Class is going to be the day that you want the students to view the content. You select the date first and then after that Class is created you can upload associated content by click on the plus sign in that row. Content can be videos, or powerpoint type presentations.

(an illustrated version of this KB article can be found at this page)

 

 

 

  1. Log into Echo360 through here.
  2. Click Courses near the top left.
  3. The first course in the top left of the grid should be your most recent course.
    If you cannot find your course on the list of courses, click Filters + and/or Sort by options to find the course.
    List of available courses shown in the Courses page in Echo360.
  4. Click on the course to see your list of dates and times to be recorded and content that has already been added. If you cannot find your course OR the recording information is not correct, please let us know immediately by contacting Academic Technology Services below.

Beginning November 2nd, 2022, all audio/video media (less than 4 hours long) published to a section will be sent to Amazon to have machine-generated transcriptions (ASR) added to them. 

Instructors can enable/disable ASR toggle by following these instructions

What to Expect

  • All newly published media will be sent for transcriptions automatically.
  • Once applied, the transcriptions appear for the video in all locations to which it is published.
  • Transcriptions take at least 30 minutes to complete but may take longer, depending on the length of the video and the overall number of transcription requests being processed at the same time.
  • Existing media will need to be re-published for transcription to take place
**If you remove then re-publish a capture to a class to obtain transcriptions, you will remove student video view data from the section analytics for that class/video and so we ask that instead, you follow Echo360's recommendation below.

Echo's Recommendations for Re-publishing Existing Content

  1. Use an old section for temporarily publishing videos
  2. Publish the older, non-transcribed videos to the old section
  3. Once the transcription is generated, remove the videos from the old selection

If you do not have an old section to publish to or should you have any questions, please contact us at: academictechnologies@stonybrook.edu; submit a ticket online at: service.stonybrook.edu; chat live or call us at 631-632-2358

Students who require captioning due to accessibility issues should contact the Student Accessibility Support Center at this link to get the Echo360 recordings for their course captioned.

To embed an Echo360 video inside a module within your course in Brightspace, follow these steps:

  1. Choose which module the video will be embedded in
  2. Click on the text that says "Add a description"

Module being selected and in the module the option titled add a description is highlighted

  1. Select the "Insert Stuff" icon

Insert Stuff Icon being selected in the Text Box area to add a description to the module

  1. A pop up will appear where you can add links from multiple areas. Find and select Echo360.

Insert stuff options with Echo360 highlighted

  1. Click on the video you wish to insert and select "Next"

Echo video being selected and the next button under it is highlighted

  1. Choose how large you wish the video window to be in the "Size" dropdown, and choose which time to start the video in the "Start At" field
  2. Select "Insert"

Video customization options and the next button highlighted under it

  1. A preview field will appear where you can view your video. Select "Insert" once you are ready to embed, this will close the pop up view.

Preview field for the echo video and under it the insert button is highlighted

  1. To finish, select "Update" under the textbox for the module

Update button to insert the video in the module

 

  1. Log into Echo360 through the Echo360 login page.
  2. In the top right corner click on the settings gear and click on Downloads.
    Echo 360 Settings Gear Drop down
  3. In the downloads page go to the Universal Capture row and download the version for your computer.
    Universal Capture Row Download Page
  4. Once downloaded, run the application, log in, select your microphone, webcam, screen, and click record.
    Universal Capture Row application home screen

 

  1. Log into Echo360 through the Echo360 login page.
  2. Navigate to the courses tab and then to the course you would like to enable download in.

Echo Courses tab

  1. Click on the course and in the top right corner click on Settings.

Echo page of a course with the cursor on the settings tab

  1. Next, click on Features and turn on Class Content Downloads.

Features tab of a course in Echo

 

 

The Download option will now be available for all class content, for both students and instructors of this section.

 

  1. Navigate to a Brightspace course and add a Module to the course content.
  2. Add an Existing Activity to the module then select External Learning Tools. 
    Existing activities drop down with external learning tools highlighted
  3. From the list of Tool Providers, select Echo360 Course
  4. The new link, Echo360 Course, automatically appears in the module you created. Click the link to launch the Echo360 linking process.
  5. Use the drop-down box to select a Section in Echo360 to link this Brightspace course to
    drop-down box to select a Section in Echo360 module
  6. Then, select where you want them to redirect: The Link to the Section Home option is selected by default (This directs users to the main class list of the identified section).
    See Linking an LMS course to an Echo360 Classroom if you want to create multiple links to different classes in the section. The process is the same as appears here, but you will need to repeat it for each class you want to link.
    Options to select where students can be redirected to on Echo360
  7. Click LINK CONTENT.
  1. Log into Echo360 through the Echo360 login page.
  2. Navigate to the Courses tab and click on the course you would like to remove a user from.

Echo360 Course tab

  1. Next, click on Settings. 

Settings tab of Echo360 Homepage

  1. Then click on Students.

Students tab of course settings on Echo

  1. Scroll down to the list of users in your course and select the ones you would like to remove. Once selected, simply click the Trash button.

List of users on Echo360 course

 

A short video showing how to perform this is also included here: Starting Echo360 Ad Hoc Captures

STEP 0! Verify that your room is scheduled through the Registrar's Office, and coordinate with AV Services to obtain microphones and any other equipment necessary for recording your lectures. 

  1. Log into Echo360 via the Echo360 login page using your NetID and password.
    Stony Brook Single Sign On page
  2. You should enter the view as an "Instructor"
    Instructor Echo homepage
     
  3. Select the "Start Capture" button at the top right side of the page
    Instructor Echo Homepage with Start capture boxed in
     
  4. The "New Capture" Modal will appear
    "Start a new capture" window in Echo360, showing new capture options
     
  5. Select your Classroom from the drop down list and set the length of time for the capture
    Room drop down of "Start a Capture" window in Echo360
     
  6. Do NOT edit or alter the "Inputs" or "Quality" fields - let the system automatically fill these in
    "Start a new capture" window with the Inputs option crossed out
     
  7. Choose your course  from the drop down list under "Publish to..."
    Note: If you do not see your course listed, you can save to your Library and contact our office for assistance.
    "Start a new capture" window with publish to drop down options opened
     
  8. Select your "Live Stream" option (gray is NOT live streamed, green is)
    "Start a new capture" window in Echo360 with live stream option checked off
     
  9. Press Start
    "Start a new capture" window in Echo360 with start boxed in
     
  10. The page should refresh with a green banner along the bottom stating "Success. Your capture will begin shortly."
    Echo Instructor Homepage with capture success message on the bottom right

 

  1. Log into Echo360 through the Echo360 login page.
  2. Navigate to the recording by finding the course it is under in the Courses tab or find the recording in the My Content tab.

Echo360 Courses Tab

  1. Hover over the video you wish to share and click the 3 dots in the bottom right corner.

Video with more options being shown

    4. Click on the share button and add the email of the user you would like to share the recording with.

Share settings tab

To remove a user from an Echo360 recording follow all the same previous steps and click the X button next to the user you would like to remove.

Share setting tab with an individual user

Students

How to view an Echo360 recording in Brightspace:

  1. First, go to the Brightspace service page at brightspace.stonybrook.edu and click on Launch Brightspace
  2. Next, go to the course you are trying the view the Echo360 recording in.
  3. In the Navbar near the top, select Content
  4. Next, find the module which has the Echo360 recordings. (It may be called recordings, or echo, or be in multiple content folders)
  5. Lastly, once you see a content item with the title Echo360 Course (External Learning Tool on bottom), select it
    Contains Echo360 as a Module in a Brightspace course

How to view a shared Echo360 recording:

  1. Simply log into Echo360 through the Echo360 login page.
  2. You should see the shared content under Media
    Echo360 library tab with with the media tab highlighted
  3. You may also filter your Media. Select Filters below the top right corner.
    Echo360 library tab search bar with filters highlighted
  4. If you do not see Echo360 recordings shared with you, contact your professor (or the person who you are expecting the recording from) with your Stony Brook email to make sure they shared the recording with the right person.

 

Echo360 computer viewing requirements: 

From a computer, Echo360 can be viewed using the most recent versions of:

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Safari
  • Internet Explorer (11 or higher)
  • Microsoft Edge

 

Echo360 mobile viewing requirements: 

From a mobile device, Echo360 mobile app can be downloaded on:

  • iOS 9.1 or later
  • Android 5.0 and up
  • Windows 10 version 10586.0 or higher

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For More Information Contact

Academic Technology Services
(631) 632-9800
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Additional Information

Files & Links
Echo360 Faculty Guide
Echo360 Student Guide