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230122 STILL NEED TO CLEAN UP THE GROUP C GENERAL NOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE AND CHECK THE ENTIRE PAGE FOR ANY DRAFT TEXT OR OTHER CONTENT THAT NEEDS TO BE REMOVED

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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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The workflows expected to be most used are highlighted in the diagram and shown in red in the link tables. Each workflow is given a code, e.g. A.2. is the second workflow in Group A.

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2. SEQUENCE DIAGRAM (click diagram to zoom)

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3. LINK TABLES

COMMON WORKFLOWS FOR ‘COURSE-SECTION-CLASS’ AND ‘COLLECTION’ METHODS

A.1. Uploading an Echo video
[DONE EXCEPT FOR CHECKING/ADJUSTING THE INTRO TEXT IN THIS WORKFLOW AND ADJUSTING ONCE ALL OTHER WORKFLOWS ARE FINISHED]
✍️ Uploading an Echo video [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ Uploading an Echo video [230124 LINKS TO NEW VIDEO] [NEED TO ADD VOICEOVER]

A.2. Recording and uploading a webcam session [DONE EXCEPT FOR CHECKING/ADJUSTING THE INTRO TEXT IN THIS WORKFLOW AND ADJUSTING ONCE ALL OTHER WORKFLOWS ARE FINISHED]

✍️ Recording and uploading a webcam session [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ Recording and uploading a webcam session [230124 LINKS TO NEW VIDEO] [NEED TO ADD VOICEOVER]

A.3./C.1. Adding a video to Echo while linking to it from Canvas

[DONE]

✍️ Adding a video to Echo while linking to it from Canvas [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ Adding a video to Echo while linking to it from Canvas [230124 LINKS TO NEW VIDEO] [NEED TO ADD VOICEOVER]

D.4. Editing videos in Echo

✍️ Editing videos in Echo [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ [VIDEO NOT YET CREATED]

D.6. Giving a video to another user
✍️ Giving a video to another user [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ [VIDEO NOT YET CREATED]

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WORKFLOWS FOR THE COLLECTION METHOD

C.2. Linking to an existing Echo video

[DONE]

✍️ Linking to an existing Echo video [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ Linking to an existing Echo video [230124 LINKS TO NEW VIDEO] [NEED TO ADD VOICEOVER]

D.1. Creating an Echo collection

[DONE]

✍️ Creating an Echo collection [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ [VIDEO NOT YET CREATED]

[Mention that this workflow is mainly used for adding staff to a section so that they can view and comanage the section and any classes under it]

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D.2. Adding an Echo video to a collection

✍️ Adding an Echo video to a collection [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ [VIDEO NOT YET CREATED]

D.3. Sharing your collection
✍️ Sharing your collection [LINK CHECKED]

🎞️ [VIDEO NOT YET CREATED]

E.1. Deleting content from a personal Echo library

✍️ Deleting content from a personal Echo library [LINK CHECKED]

??️ [VIDEO NOT YET CREATED]

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The following notes should be read in conjunction with the workflows. Each workflow links to these notes where necessary.

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Group A: Staff need to upload video content to Echo

General notes applying to all Group A workflows

  • In addition to videos, you can upload presentation files (such as PowerPoint) and pdfs to Echo360. However uploading anything but video and audio files is currently not possible unless using the Course-Section-Class method. Thus, since video is the main type of content used in Echo and use of the Course-Section-Class method will be minimal, these workflows tend to refer to this content as just ‘video’

  • Whenever you upload content to Echo, it’s added to your personal Echo library:

    • This library content is available off the ‘Library’ tab after clicking on the ‘My Echo360 Library’ link in the blue menu shown to the left of any Canvas course

    • You can use one of the three methods to share this content

      • as a student you can use the student submission method to upload your video content as part of an assessment submission

      • as an instructor, you can use either the course-section-class or collection method to allow others to access this content. Or you can simply keep your content to yourself in your library.

    • You can view and manage your Echo library from within Canvas.

    • Zoom recordings and classroom captures organized by the AV department should also appear in your Echo library.

  • There are three places you can link to Echo videos from within a Canvas course page:

    • the text editor

    • the Modules screen, and

    • the course’s blue navigation menu.

      Of these, linking via the the text editor is recommended. Using the Modules screen or navigation menu is not preferred because both require using the Course-Section-Class method. Links created in Canvas to classes in the Course-Section-Class hierarchy are likely to break when the related Canvas course is rolled over.

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Group B: Staff need to set up Canvas so that students can submit video to Echo for their assignments

General notes applying to all Group B workflows

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The above workflows are shown as Option A and Option B in these guides.

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Group C: Staff need to link to Echo video content from Canvas

General notes applying to all Group C workflows

  • These workflows cover creating a simple link to an Echo video as well as embedding an Echo video in Canvas

  • With these workflows you can link to both uploaded videos and videos recorded via Echo (ie webcam sessions) because once uploaded to Echo, Echo treats them the same.

  • You can link in Canvas to a video that’s in your personal Echo360 library, either

    • as an individual video that you added or that someone shared with you, or

    • in a collection you created, or that another user made you a member of.

  • However when linking to a video in Canvas, you can’t search for videos by the collection they’re in, since collections are not shown when linking.

    • So in order to link to a video in a collection, view the collection to find the video’s title. Then search for that title

    • Echo allows you to search for parts of a video title but will not search on punctuation and spaces

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Group D: Managing content, and sharing videos individually or via collection

General notes applying to all Group D workflows

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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

    • The following practice is recommended for managing 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 for the degree/school 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

      • 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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Group E: Deleting Echo content

General notes applying to all Group E workflows

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