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Background
Methods of adding content to Echo
Overall approach to using Echo
Miscellaneous Notes
A note about interaction with Echo content
A note about collecting together related videos in Studio and Echo
A note for instructors about how ‘Student View’ works with Echo
For further information about Echo
Standard workflows for using Echo with Canvas
a. Workflow groups
b. Sequence diagram
c. Link tables
d. Workflow Notes
. Tables with links to the workflows
d. Workflow notes
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1.BACKGROUND
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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Apart from videos, Echo can also hold audio files, pdfs and PowerPoint files to help collect together teaching content on a given topic. However, since video is the main format for content in Echo, almost all references in the descriptions and workflows below will refer to this Echo content as ‘video’.
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2. METHODS OF ADDING CONTENT TO ECHO
Echo provides three methods to allow content to be uploaded and made available:
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The following diagram summarises how content is added to Canvas via Echo for the three methods (click diagram to zoom):
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3. OVERALL APPROACH TO USING ECHO WITH CANVAS
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The student submission method allows video submissions to Echo to be tied to the Canvas course for which the submission was made, again allowing related video content to be kept together.
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4. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
A NOTE ABOUT INTERACTION WITH ECHO CONTENT
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Information on Echo for students can be found at this Echo support landing page: https://help.echo360.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039793831-Getting-Students-Startedhc/en-us/articles/360039793831-Getting-Students-Started
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5. STANDARD WORKFLOWS FOR USING ECHO WITH CANVAS
A number of standard workflows have been devised to ensure that video content at NIDA is stored and presented in a predictable way in both Echo and Canvas.
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WORKFLOW GROUPS
These workflows fall into five Groups. The Groups holding the most used workflows are bolded:
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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 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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WORKFLOWS FOR THE STUDENT SUBMISSION METHOD |
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B.1. Setting up a Canvas assessment to allow for student video submissions Option 1: ✍️ B.1.OPT1. Echo-preferred setup (Online + Website URL) 🎞️ B.1.OPT1. Echo-preferred setup (Online + Website URL) Option 2: ✍️ B.1.OPT2 Alternative setup (Online + File Upload) L 🎞️ B.1.OPT2 Alternative setup (Online + File Upload) |
B.2. Students make their video submissions via Canvas 🎞️ B.2.OPT1 Echo-preferred submission Option 2: ✍️ B.2.OPT2 Alternative submission (Online + File Upload) |
B.3. Instructors view and optionally grade/provide feedback on student video submissions |
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4. WORKFLOW NOTES
The following notes should be read in conjunction with the workflows. Each workflow links to these notes where necessary.
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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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