Content Comparison

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Echo360 is a platform used at NIDA to hold video content used to teach courses.

This content is then linked to from Canvas (aka ‘NIDA Learn’), which is NIDA’s learning management system.
Echo360 replaces Canvas' built-in video app called Studio.

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For content tied to a specific Canvas course

1. A course‘Course->section->class >Section->Class’ method involves using hierarchy is set up in Echo that mirrors a similar structure in Canvas. Instructors add video content into this This hierarchy in Echo then link to this content from the relevant course in Canvas. 2. For a given Canvas course, students upload video to Echo as part of their assessment submissions. This video can then be watched inside Canvas by performs two main functions at NIDA:

• Migration: Content from Canvas' built-in Studio video application was migrated into this hierarchy as part of decommissioning Studio at the end of 2022. This content could not be migrated into Echo in any other way.

• Classroom capture: NIDA AV staff set up schedules for the recording of classroom activity (and also livestreamed content if needed) and this content is then automatically added into folders in this structure. Instructors can then link to this captured content from the relevant course in Canvas if desired

2. A ‘Collection’ method allows each student and instructor to optionally share videos from their own personal Echo video space. If a user decides to share their content, they can do this by sharing an individual video, or collecting videos together into a Collection and then sharing the Collection with others.

3. A ‘Student Submission’ method allows students upload video to Echo as part of their assessment submissions for a given Canvas course. This video can then be watched inside Canvas by instructors.

Because of the limited use of the ‘Course->Section->Class’ method, most use of Echo is likely to be using the 'Collection' method. However it should be remembered that content related to a given course in Canvas could be distributed among any or all of the above methods.

Additionally, since the ‘Collection’ method involves contributions from the individual Echo video libraries of a number of users, content for a given Canvas course could be spread among multiple current or past instructors.

For content not tied to any specific Canvas course

3. Each student and instructor can add content into their own personal Echo video space. Once the video is in this space, users can then keep their content private or optionally add it to collections which they can share with othersThe ‘Collection’ method can also be used to share Echo content informally. This can be for reasons not tied to the delivery of a specific course in Canvas.

The following diagram illustrates the levels in Echo’s course‘Course-sectionSection-class Class’ method and how they match equivalent levels in Canvas:

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More detail on the workflows in these Groups is provided in the sequence tables below, including links to the steps for each.
The main workflows are shown in red.

Each workflow is given a code, eg A.3. is the third workflow in Group A.

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Sequence 1 - for the ‘Course-Section-Class’ and ‘Collection’ methods

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• Ownership of video collections

  • Currently all users - including students - are allowed to create collections and each collection remains private to the user who created it until that user chooses to share the collection with others.

  • You are thus able to access Echo360 content in any collection that you have created or to which you have been made a member

  • As the owner (or ‘manager’) of a collection you control who has access to your collection and what they can do with it. You can make someone else a manager of your collection but once you do, you can’t undo this by yourself since managers can not remove or demote other managers. If you want to remove a collection manager, ask one of NIDA’s Echo360 admins for help

  • Collections have an option that allows whoever clicks on a link to be made a member of that collection

  • Suggested standard practice for course-based Echo collections: A single person is designated as the manager for all course-based Echo collections for a given degree/school. This person would likely be the course coordinator or similar. This person creates all course-based Echo collections so that by default they are given the role of Collection Manager. All people who are then added as members of this collection are added in a Contributor role only in order to prevent them accidentally deleting videos from this collection. If a video really needs to be deleted from the collection, then staff ask the Collection Manager to do this for them. Or the Collection Manager does this as a standard part of managing these course-based collections

• Ownership of individual videos

  • If you upload a video to Echo, you are automatically made the owner of that video and can thus manage it including copying, editing, downloading and deleting it.

  • However the following actions on your video require the help of one of NIDA’s Echo admins (eg Josh, Ben, Andrew and some IT staff):

    • if you would like to give ownership of your video to someone else

    • 230103 if you would like to create a public link to your video, ie so it can be viewed outside NIDA. (You can still share your video with people inside NIDA.)

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