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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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This applies to any new Echo content added to Canvas during and after 2023. This is because Echo content prior to January 2023 has been migrated from Studio into Echo, and any Studio links in Canvas have been replaced with Echo links for this time period.
(Additionally, any videos that were in a user’s private Studio area in Canvas should now be in this user’s personal Echo library. Any collections of videos in a user’s private Studio area have not been reproduced in Echo. If you would like your Studio collections set up in the same way in Echo, please contact Andrew.)
A separate collection will be set up for each delivery of a Canvas A separate collection will be set up for each delivery of a Canvas course. This formal collection will have the same name as the related Canvas course. Instructors should then ensure that any video used in that delivery has been added both to this specific collection and linked to from the relevant Canvas course.
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Students can contribute Echo content to a Canvas course which can then be used as a conversation starting point. This is possible in Canvas by uploading an Echo video within a Discussion post.
Instructors can contribute Echo content to a Canvas course. Students then view this content and can interact with it in Echo, for example by typing in questions, comments or personal notes, answering prepared polls, or bookmarking sections they found problematic or would like to revisit.)
A NOTE ABOUT COLLECTING TOGETHER RELATED VIDEOS IN STUDIO AND ECHO
In Canvas, each user was able to create groups in his or her private Studio space to collect together related videos. If you would like these groups recreated as collections in Echo, please contact Andrew.)
A NOTE FOR INSTRUCTORS ABOUT HOW STUDENT VIEW WORKS WITH ECHO
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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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COMMON WORKFLOWS ACROSS BOTH THE ‘COURSE-SECTION-CLASS’ AND ‘COLLECTION’ METHODS |
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A.1. Uploading an Echo video |
A.2. Recording and uploading a webcam session |
A.3./C.1. Adding a video to Echo while linking to it from Canvas |
D.4. Editing videos in Echo |
D.6. Giving a video to another user 🎞️ [This workflow is performed by NIDA Echo admin staff. Provide them with a list of videos you would like to give to another user] |
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WORKFLOWS FOR THE COLLECTION METHOD |
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C.2. Linking to an existing Echo video |
D.1. Creating an Echo collection |
D.2. Adding an Echo video to a collection |
D.3. Sharing a video or collection |
E.1. Deleting content from a personal Echo library |
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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 staff who are then added as members of this collection are added in an Editor 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.
the standard role for all students should be Reviewer.
D. Ownership of individual videos
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What they are then allowed to do depends on their role.
Note that for students, who have minimal rights over videos that have been shared with them, the actions they are able to take with the video are viewing it, downloading it and removing it from their library.
If you thus want to prevent students from downloading content you have shared with them, instead of sharing the video with them, create a collection, add the video to the collection then add students to this collection in the role of Reviewer.
Equally, if someone owns a video and has shared it with you, you may not be able to share it with someone else.
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