This workflow covers the steps required for a user to find any Echo classes attached to a course in Canvas. This will then allow the user to see the names of any videos in those classes so these can then be linked to from Canvas if needed.
The video that covers the same steps as the below can be found here:
[video not yet available]
For important notes related to all Group C workflows, click here
[230125 RK: make all screenshots smaller so people can eg print off the workflow as a pdf]
[230121 YET TO BE RESOLVED
Not yet sure what the advantage is in adding videos to classes except to keep a record of which videos are related to the Canvas course that’s attached to the section that the classes are in. In other words, at the moment the only advantage appears to be that you can keep tabs on which videos are related to a given Canvas course, but this seems to provide no advantage in terms of making it easier to link to videos from Canvas
For this reason, since there appears to be no link between adding videos to classes and being able to then link the videos in these classes to a Canvas course, the only additional workflow steps I can add at this point is to describe an alternative method of creating simple links and embed codes for a video that the methods described in the other workflows. This alternative method is:
Go to the user’s Echo library via the ‘My Echo360 Library’ screen on any Canvas page. In the Library tab on this screen, open the Media dropdown if necessary so that the video thumbnails can be seen. Click on the three dots to the bottom right of a video and select Share then select the ‘Link’ tab to start sharing via a link. Then follow the options on the Link tab to create either a simple link or get embed code to paste into the Canvas page’s html]
Notes specific to this workflow
Echo classes are the lowest and most specific level in Echo’s course-section-class hierarchy
Scheduled class recordings (and livestreamed video if recorded) will be saved in a class in Echo.
This class will belong to an Echo section that is linked to a relevant course in Canvas
The scheduled and livestream recordings will also be added as videos to the Echo library of a given staff member, such as a course coordinator. This staff member can be chosen as part of scheduling the recording
Methods of linking from a video in an Echo class to Canvas are awkward and are likely to break when the Canvas course is rolled over for the next offering, so the easiest option to link to a scheduled recording is…
for the person who received the recording in their Echo library to create a link in Canvas, or
to find the name of the recording and ask a NIDA Echo admin to share this recording with others so they can do the linking, or
to ask the admin to do the linking for them)
This workflow thus simply shows you how to see a list of classes attached to your Canvas course so you know what name the recording has in order to advise a NIDA Echo admin
For the diagram of the course-section-class hierarchy, click this link
WORKFLOW
1.Go to a Canvas course you have been enrolled in
2. click on the link to the ‘Echo360 Links’ screen. (If this is not shown then select to show it in the blue course menu by going to the course’s Settings screen, then selecting to enable the ‘Echo360 Links’ option in the Navigation tab)
3. then selecting the 'Section home' option (l the other settings should already be selected for you)
4. then clicking the Connect button. You are then shown a list of all the Echo classes linked to the Canvas course. An example class - including its name - is shown below
