Category: Video & Lecture Capture

Tips for creating and sharing and using the video ecosystem at WPI

Creating a Video Assignment or Discussion Post

Creating a video assignment or discussion post is a great way to get students thinking outside the text-box, so to speak, and tapping into their creativity. It’s also a great way for students to see each other and practice presentation skills. This post covers how to create assignments and discussions that involve a video submission….Continue Reading Creating a Video Assignment or Discussion Post

Lecture Capture by Default in D-term and Spring Semester classes

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POST IS NOW CONSIDERED ARCHIVED. THIS “LECTURE CAPTURE BY DEFAULT” FORMAT EXPIRED 5/10/22 AND WPI IS NOW BACK TO AN OPT-IN/BY-REQUEST LECTURE CAPTURE PROCESS. INSTRUCTORS CAN REQUEST LECTURE CAPTURE USING THE REQUEST FORM.   In response to the recent email sent out by John McNeill and Reeta Rao, CERT Academic Liaisons,…Continue Reading Lecture Capture by Default in D-term and Spring Semester classes

Goodbye Ensemble, Hello Echo360

Ensemble is a video content management system at WPI. It has been in used since 2012 and will be sunsetted at the end of the 2021-2022 academic year. New videos will be accepted into Ensemble until December 16th, 2021. After that point, existing Ensemble videos will be migrated to Echo360. This post explains how to…Continue Reading Goodbye Ensemble, Hello Echo360

Compelling Reasons to Caption Video

“When  students are able to access their accommodations, without barriers,  this is a wonderful thing,” says Amy Curran, Director of Accessibility Services at WPI. In the education field, an accommodation refers to a modification that has been put in place in order to enable students to access the curriculum in both an in-person and virtual classroom setting. …Continue Reading Compelling Reasons to Caption Video

Lecture Capture by Default in A/B/F classes

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POST IS NOW CONSIDERED ARCHIVED. THIS “LECTURE CAPTURE BY DEFAULT” FORMAT EXPIRED 5/10/22 AND WPI IS NOW BACK TO AN OPT-IN/BY-REQUEST LECTURE CAPTURE PROCESS. INSTRUCTORS CAN REQUEST LECTURE CAPTURE USING THE REQUEST FORM. In response to the recent email sent out by John McNeill and Reeta Rao, CERT Academic Liaisons, and with…Continue Reading Lecture Capture by Default in A/B/F classes

ECE Professor Boosts Engagement with Creative Videos

Maqsood Mughal’s expertise with Open Broadcaster Suite (OBS), an open source software for creating and streaming videos, has been well-earned. After first hearing about the software during a KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network) workshop in 2019, it again flew across his radar in 2020, during the Online Pedagogy Workshop. “Last summer, I took this online…Continue Reading ECE Professor Boosts Engagement with Creative Videos

Changing your Display Name in Zoom

Even though your WPI account is used to log into Zoom, you are free to change your first, last, and display names however you would like. Note that if you have not entered a name in Zoom, it will simply display your e-mail address in meetings. Here’s how to change how your name is displayed:…Continue Reading Changing your Display Name in Zoom

Share Echo360 videos in a Canvas Page

This blog post updated 1/10/24.   This post will show you how to embed an Echo360 video directly in a Canvas Page. You can use embedded videos in Pages to allow your students to experience your recorded lecture with the rest of the learning materials for that particular lesson (for example, in a Canvas Module)….Continue Reading Share Echo360 videos in a Canvas Page

How to Edit Videos in Echo360 and Canvas Studio

This post was last updated on 1/22/2024.   I hate to break it to you, but some of your footage is going to end up on the cutting room floor. There comes a point in every video-creator’s life when they have to cut some footage. Some footage you might say good riddance to, other footage…Continue Reading How to Edit Videos in Echo360 and Canvas Studio