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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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Echo provides three methods to allow content to be uploaded and made available:For content tied to a specific Canvas course
1. A ‘Course->Section->Class’ method involves using hierarchy is set up in Echo that mirrors a similar structure in Canvas. This hierarchy in Echo 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.
3Since a collection can thus contain videos from the Echo libraries of a number of users, content for a given Canvas course could be spread among multiple current or past instructors.
The 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.
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 limitations in the ‘Course->Section->Class’ method, most instructor use of Echo will 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. The ‘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 summarises how content is added to Canvas via Echo for the three methods (click diagram to zoom):
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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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