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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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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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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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Students should be able to create second submission attempts themselves unless instructors have chosen not to allow this as part of the assignment setup
Video submissions and/or reattempts by students should not be altered by instructors unless students are unable to resubmit; NIDA’s Canvas and Echo admins can help if needed
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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 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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Group E: Deleting Echo content
General notes applying to all Group E workflows
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