This post was updated 1/19/2024. Echo360 users can share their videos in Canvas in a variety of ways. This post explains how to share your video in a Canvas module as an External URL item and from the Echo360 App inside of Canvas. You can share a video in a Module from your Echo360 Library…Continue Reading Sharing Echo360 link in Canvas Module
C-Term 2021 Academic Technology News
Welcome back faculty and happy 2021! Hope you all had a restful break and were able to get away from screens for a while. The ATC team is here to help you get ready for another Zoom-filled Spring term. Please read our updates below and if you have any questions please email us at atc-ttl@wpi.edu. TechFlex updates & support C-Term Microphone & Classroom Tech Request …Continue Reading C-Term 2021 Academic Technology News
How Transcripts and Captions Work in Echo360
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination in the places of public accommodation – such as schools – and failing to transcribe or provide closed captions for your educational videos can be seen as a violation of the ADA. So transcripts and captions have legal significance. But beyond that, they help your students access your…Continue Reading How Transcripts and Captions Work in Echo360
Flipping Video with OBS
OBS – short for Open Broadcaster System – is an open source software for video streaming and recording. Downloads for OBS are available at obsproject.com. OBS is free and works well on Windows, macOS and Linux systems. That being said, as an open source tool, there isn’t a customer support hotline you can call…Continue Reading Flipping Video with OBS
Accessing Portfolium through Canvas
Portfolium is an online software that will allow you to publish work and show it publicly. You can create a profile, share projects, connect to LinkedIn, and showcase your skills learned at WPI. Learn more about Portfolium. To access Portfolium, first login to Canvas. Click on your “Account” in the top left and click on…Continue Reading Accessing Portfolium through Canvas
Reaching Viewers with Echo360
Greetings, WPI Producers! This post will cover how to get the videos you produce with Echo360 in front of your students. These videos can be produced in a classroom, at home with Echo360 Universal Capture or through the Echo360-Zoom integration. Three popular ways to share Echo360 videos with students are: Sharing in a Canvas page…Continue Reading Reaching Viewers with Echo360
Submitting an Assignment with Canvas Studio
Greetings WPI Students, Your Professor may assign a video project as an assignment. Here are the steps that you take to submit it using Canvas Studio, a content management and creation tool embedded in Canvas. First, you click on the assignment and click submit. Once you click submit, you see some choices. Choose Studio. …Continue Reading Submitting an Assignment with Canvas Studio
Zoom Recording Notifications
If you would prefer to receive email notification for when cloud recordings in Zoom are being processed, you can very easily follow these steps to turn notifications on for yourself. Log in via https://wpi.zoom.us/ Click “Settings” in the left-hand menu. Locate “Email Notification” Click on the toggle button to the right of “When a cloud…Continue Reading Zoom Recording Notifications
Microsoft Teams, WPI, & You: What do I need to know?
Did you know that ITS @ WPI has created a Class Team in Microsoft Teams for every course at WPI? It’s been a long, busy summer, but we wanted to make an official announcement to let you know about this exciting news! How do I access Teams? Since it is part of Office 365 suite,…Continue Reading Microsoft Teams, WPI, & You: What do I need to know?
Studio: How to Upload Video
Greetings WPI Video Producers: Canvas has a video content management system. It’s integrated into Canvas. It’s called Studio. Studio is also a content creation tool, but you can upload videos to Studio that weren’t created by it. This is nice because uploading videos to Studio (as opposed to the files area of your Canvas site)…Continue Reading Studio: How to Upload Video