Blog post updated 1/9/24 Echo360: Recording from Home or Office Echo360 can be used to create video from your home or office. If you go to the Echo360 area of your Canvas course site, you’ll notice a pink Create button. If you click on New Browser Capture, you can create a recording with the browser…Continue Reading Echo360: Recording from Home or Office
Echo360 Room List
Alden Hall Janet Earle Room Atwater Kent AK013 AK116 AK219 AK232 AK233 Boston Seaport CS131 Campus Center Hagglund Room Fuller Labs FL222 FL311 FL320 Lower Perrault Upper Perrault Goddard Hall GH227 Higgins Labs HL031 HL114 HL116 HL154 HL202 HL218 HL230 Kaven Hall KH115 KH116 KH202 KH203 KH204 KH207 Olin Hall OH107 OH109 OH126 OH218 OH223…Continue Reading Echo360 Room List
Share your Echo360 Lecture Capture Recordings
Blog post updated 1/9/2024 If you’ve used Echo360 to share recordings in the past, sharing and publishing options have changed as of January 2024. Echo360 allows you to share your lecture capture recordings in Canvas to all students through the Echo360 link in the left hand menu, or through your Canvas Modules area. You can…Continue Reading Share your Echo360 Lecture Capture Recordings
Share Studio Video with a Link
If you have a video in Canvas Studio that you want to share with a link, follow these steps. First, find your video in My Library. Click the three-dot column on the bottom right of the video thumbnail. This releases a pop up menu. Click “Share Media”. From here, you have the choice of whether…Continue Reading Share Studio Video with a Link
Insert Editing with Echo360
Did you know that you can now insert clips into an existing Echo360 video? To do this, you need to have both the clip you want to insert as well as the one that is going to get added to in your Echo360 library. With that as your starting point, you can chose to edit…Continue Reading Insert Editing with Echo360
Edit Your Closed Captions on Echo360
Closed captions are the text version of what is being spoken during a video, displayed in short, readable segments. All Echo360 videos have a closed caption track. This means that should a viewer want to turn on the closed captioning for a course video, they will have that option. This post provides more information about…Continue Reading Edit Your Closed Captions on Echo360
Echo360 Announces Grant Opportunity
Echo360, the video content management and creation platform in use at WPI, has announced a call for proposals for its E3 grants. E3 stands for Equity, Engagement and Evidence. Each grant recipient, if selected, will receive a $2000 cash award. These grants are designed to support the work of instructors and researchers who use Echo360…Continue Reading Echo360 Announces Grant Opportunity
Introducing Perusall
The perennial quest for engagement may have a boost with Perusall, a social annotation platform that can be incorporated into your Canvas course sites as an external tool. Built by a team of academics from Harvard and the University of Texas, Perusall aims to increase pre-class reading. Students can login to Perusall through Canvas (more…Continue Reading Introducing Perusall
Setting Up Zoom for Echo360
Updated 1/9/2024 Did you know you can set up your Zoom cloud recordings to automatically transfer to your Echo360 Library? Since Zoom cloud recordings are deleted after 100 days, Echo360 is the preferred storage solution. To set up your course to record with Zoom and be stored in Echo360, follow these steps. Go to https://wpi.zoom.us…Continue Reading Setting Up Zoom for Echo360
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