Interacting with Echo content
Collecting together related videos in Studio and Echo
How ‘Student View’ works with Echo
For further information about Echo
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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.
The Course-Section-Class method is Echo’s older method of managing content.
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.
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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 Collection method is Echo’s newest method of managing content.
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.
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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 | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
A.2. Recording and uploading a webcam session | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
A.3./C.1. Adding a video to Echo while linking to it from Canvas | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
D.4. Editing videos in Echo | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
D.6. Giving a video to another user 🎞️ [There is no video for this workflow since the workflow is performed by NIDA Echo admin staff. Provide them with a list of videos you would like to give to another user] | ✍️ Page | n/a (see note to left) |
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WORKFLOWS FOR THE COLLECTION METHOD | ||
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C.2. Linking to an existing Echo video | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
D.1. Creating an Echo collection | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
D.2. Adding an Echo video to a collection | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
D.3. Sharing a video or collection | ✍️ Page | 🎞️ Video |
E.1. Deleting content from a personal Echo library | ✍️ Page | ??️ Video |
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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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