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Instructors, TAs, and students can access Echo360 through a dedicated link in Moodle. This page explains how to access Echo360 via this link, and provides links to instructions for adjusting your browser pop-up settings, if needed.
Access Echo360 Through the Moodle Link
Log in to Moodle....
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Echo360 is a lecture capture and delivery tool at UMass Amherst. One of the features of this tool uses Amazon’s Alexa algorithm to generate transcripts based on the audio of a recording through a process of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR).
The transcripts that are created will be added to your...
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Zoom meetings offer a chance to interact with your students synchronously in a video-conference. When you set up your Zoom meetings, you can record them to the cloud. Zoom cloud recordings can be configured to generate a transcript automatically based on the audio of your meeting.
The accuracy of...
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Integrating your Echo360 and Zoom accounts will enable your Zoom cloud recordings to be added to your Echo360 library. This will allow you to save meeting recordings, and share recordings with students easily. Unlike the 120 day retention policy for Zoom cloud storage, there is no retention limit...
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If you used Echo360 Personal Capture software prior to Fall 2015, Echo360 recommends that you uninstall your existing copy of Personal Capture before installing the new version. If you want to keep any recordings you've made, you should manually copy files from the program folder to another place...
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Echo360 lets you upload presentations to your personal library or to your class, then edit the presentation directly in Echo360 by adding or deleting slides/pages. For example, as an instructor, you could use Echo360 to share lecture slides after a recorded classroom session, or as a way to embed...
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You are the "owner" of any content that appears in the My Content page of your Echo360 Library. You can delete this content if it is no longer needed.
DELETING MY CONTENT MEDIA IS PERMANENT- you cannot recover either the media or the class data associated with it.
Items appearing in the Shared...
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Universal Capture: Personal is a stand-alone application designed to be used by Instructors on their personal computers to generate video recordings outside of the classroom environment. This section provides information and links to Echo360's instructions for configuring and using Universal...
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You can download content from your Echo360 library page if you need or want a local copy of the media. You have the option of downloading a standard or high-definition version in the .MP4 or .MPEG format, or downloading only the audio in .MP3 format. For recordings with multiple video feeds (i.e....
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Echo360 General Questions
What is Echo360 Classroom Capture?
Echo360 is a lecture capture system, which allows the recording of classroom lectures, meetings, speeches, and other events. The recordings can be made available for students to review on their own or shared with others. You can...
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This document outlines the UMass Amherst Echo360 lecture recording policy.*
Instructors using Echo360 at UMass are expected to read the UMass Amherst Echo360 lecture recording policy before using the Echo360 service.
Intellectual Property rights of the recorded material are in accordance with...
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Echo360 provides a basic online video editing function, allowing you to make cuts and trims to video content as needed.
For instructions, see the Echo360 support article on Editing Videos.
Note: Any changes you apply to a video in your library will also appear in ALL published (or shared)...
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After your Echo360 content (presentations and video) is associated with a class (i.e., published), you can make it available or unavailable at a schedule you choose.
For instructions, see the Echo360 article, Editing Availability Settings for Published Content.
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If you are using Echo360 to grade student participation, you can also export engagement scores into your Moodle gradebook. This page explains how to configure the link between your Echo360 and Moodle courses using the External tool activity and then how to export grades.
To learn more, contact the...
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You can provide students with easy access to all of your Echo360 recordings through a single link and/or through individual recording links. When a student clicks on an Echo360 integration link on your Moodle course page, Echo360 will automatically create an account for them and add the student to...
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Echo360's engagement analytics feature is helpful if you are teaching a distance learning course, using a flipped classroom structure, or wanting to encourage students to review material outside of class. The Analytics tab in Echo360's active learning platform (ALP) can help you calculate ...
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Depending on how the recordings are created or edited, they may constitute educational records that are protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) -- the federal student privacy law. This page explains acceptable practices for utilizing video and audio recordings in the...
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Echo360 provides many options for managing content in your Echo360 courses, and for sharing your content with students.
Manage Presentations and Interactive Activities in Echo360
Echo360 lets you upload, store, edit, and/or share your presentations. You can edit the presentation directly in...
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With classroom-based capture, you have the option to record activities on your computer desktop; room/system audio, including your voice; documents via a document camera; media playing through the classroom audio/visual rack; video of you, the lecturer.
The classroom capture system will...
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Echo360 is an active learning platform (ALP) that enables instructors to record classroom sessions and share video content outside of class.
If you are teaching in an Echo360-equipped classroom, request automatic recordings of all class meetings, capturing both the classroom A/V display and...
