Category: Miscellaneous

Sharing Echo360 Videos as a Course-Relevant Collection

How do Echo360 videos integrate with your Canvas course? One easy way is through the Echo360 button on your left side course menu.     When you share a video to your course, they are accessible via this button, and appear as a list.     From here, students can download the videos they want….Continue Reading Sharing Echo360 Videos as a Course-Relevant Collection

Embedding Video in Canvas Pages

If you want to embed your course videos into a Canvas page, you have three options. WPI currently uses Echo360 and Canvas Studio as video storage and creation solutions, and each offers different benefits. This post shows how to use each of those tools to embed video in a Canvas page. We will start with…Continue Reading Embedding Video in Canvas Pages

Student Projects with Universal Capture

This post explains how to use download Echo360 Universal Capture, how to record with it, and how to share a link to the recording. Downloading Universal Capture The first step is to click Echo360 on the left side menu-bar of the Canvas site.   Once you do this, you’ll see a gear wheel on the…Continue Reading Student Projects with Universal Capture

Creating a Video Assignment with Canvas Studio

In this post, we’ll go over how to create an assignment that accepts a video from Canvas Studio, Canvas’s video recording and storage platform. Studio is an application that can be added to your Canvas menu on the left.   To create the assignment, first click on Assignments on the left side menu. Then click…Continue Reading Creating a Video Assignment with Canvas Studio

Creating an Ad-Hoc Capture with Echo360 Universal Capture

This post was updated 8/15/2023. The Echo360 Universal Capture platform is identical whether you use it from your personal computer or if you use it in the classroom. These instructions will show you how to start and stop your own lecture captures in a WPI classroom. If you would like to schedule automatic captures for…Continue Reading Creating an Ad-Hoc Capture with Echo360 Universal Capture

Uploading and Using Studio Videos

Hello Producers of Educational Media! Today we’re going to talk about how to use Canvas Studio to store your video files and then share them in modules. What is Studio? It’s a repository for your videos. You can store video files there and you can also use an accompanying tool to record new ones. First…Continue Reading Uploading and Using Studio Videos