Request Lecture Capture (EchoVideo course)
Click the Create Ticket
button (upper-right of your screen). Instructors can record their classes, special events, lessons in our Lightboard studio, or on their computer. You will receive an email when your course(s) are ready and connected to your Canvas course. Note: If you have embedded your videos in Canvas to share your recordings, you don't need to request an EchoVideo course.
About EchoVideo Lecture Capture
EchoVideo (formerly Echo360) is a lecture capture system that is used for in-person, hybrid, flipped, and online courses. The system includes engagement tools and gathers usage analytics to monitor student participation, supporting both synchronous and asynchronous teaching. Note: Instructors, TAs, can always access their content within Canvas or outside of Canvas from echo360.org
Live Stream your classes so students can attend in real-time and not fall behind when life circumstances happen. View tips and best practices for Live Streamed Classes on
this page.
Faculty can publish content to a EchoVideo course (must request each semester). Students can view recordings or answer polls on their computer or on their mobile device before, during, or after class.
Top 5 Benefits of Teaching with an EchoVideo course, include:
- Students can join a class Live and review what was taught in class.
- Students can take Notes, ask Questions, and review a recording at their own pace.
- Students can participate in Discussion and respond to polling questions.
- Students that take Notes will automatically have a digital study guide.
- Students that cannot be in class can participate in Discussion, Q&A, take Notes, and respond to polls even if they are attending virtually.
Embed videos in Canvas. Recommended for Modules. Embed media (e.g., announcements, assignments, discussions, quizzes, pages, or syllabus) a EchoVideo course is not required.
Webinars, Use Case Videos, & Tutorials
Watch how-to videos, interact in self-paced tutorials, and watch how other universities are using EchoVideo in their teaching.
Getting Started - Instructors
Lecture Capture = Student Retention because learners can rewatch, participate during or after class, they can follow along with a transcript, and more. If there is audio challenges, you can apply Closed Captions. Click the expandable panel(s) below to access the related content. Looking for training? Register for a workshop at svsu.edu/workshops
What can I record with EchoVideo?
- Record class lectures.
- Record mini lessons prior to class.
- Record assignment instructions or expectations.
- An exam review or feedback for homework submissions.
- Record feedback for an entire class or for individual students.
- Pre-record lectures before class and have students watch them to make time for student discussion or activities during class.
Note: Alternatively, faculty can record guest speakers or students can record presentations in specific rooms on campus.
Can I track student video views?
EchoVideo gathers all usage Analytics so you can monitor student participation and provides lecture tools that both the instructor and students can use before, during, and after class.
Recording Personal Lectures on your Computer or on a Lightboard
| Lightboard Recording
- Lightboard Studio: Create asynchronous lectures or lessons on a glass LED Lightboard or a Windows computer using EchoVideo lecture capture tool. Allows you record written content as you speak and face the camera. The light illuminates the drawn content (diagram). The video resides on the EchoVideo server which allows you to easily edit and share in Canvas.
| Recording on a Personal Computer
If you are not recording in a classroom, you can capture videos on your computer in two different ways from your office, home, or any location.
Universal Capture (Personal) app
This is software installed on your computer and works on both Windows and MacOS computers (university or personal). Identical to what you would see in a classroom podium. Universal Capture (Personal) records 2 video inputs and audio (option to record system audio), with capabilities to pre-record videos or Live Stream a class. If you need to record videos without internet, use the offline option, the app will not publish any recordings until you switch to working online. All recordings will publish to your personal media Library, stored in the cloud.
Browser Capture
This is a web app that allows you to record your videos with an Internet connection and works on any computer, there is no software to install. Browser Capture doesn't offer Live Stream or the ability to record system audio. If you record with your web cam you can choose a preloaded virtual background. Browser Capture works best on the latest version of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or FireFox.
Lecture Capture - Scheduled or Adhoc Classroom Recordings
| How do I schedule a Classroom Capture (or series of Classes)?
Submit a ticket via our course request form. For scheduled classes, Live Stream or adhoc recordings. Scheduled classes will start and stop at the designated times. Ad-hoc classroom recording is something that you are controlling when the class starts recordings and stops. View Classrooms with EchoVideo
Scheduled or adhoc class recordings will be available ~1-2 hrs after class, this depends on the length of the class and where your recording is at in the queue with others. Once, processed the recording(s) will be seen in your Library. Your EchoVideo course will automatically list all scheduled recording including those with Live Stream allowing students to attend class virtually. The instructor can choose to delay the availability dates should they need to for editing or other reasons. All published recordings will be available for students to access for the entire semester.
Your EchoVideo course(s) can be accessed through Canvas via the EchoVideo tab in your Canvas menu or from echo360.org (login with your SVSU email address and password, it is not synced with your SVSU password).
| Live Streaming
Its easy and recommended to Live Stream your classes for flexibility for your students. You can request Live Stream for your scheduled classes or can start them on your own from a Classroom or from your computer. EchoVideo tracks ALL usage (video views) hourly regardless of how it was viewed or captured.
To Live Stream a ad-hoc recording in a Classroom, make sure you click the Live Streaming check box. To automatically have Live Stream enabled with your classes, be sure to let us know when you fill out the course request form.
Important Notes about Live Streaming Classes
- Control the availability of your scheduled classes with Live Stream. Select the box on the course request form to to delay the recordings.
- Control the availability of your classes for scheduled or adhoc recordings, choose date-based availability.
| Live Stream in a Classroom
Upload Content to Your Library Made Outside of EchoVideo
You can upload content created in another tool or platform and store it in your EchoVideo Library and post to Canvas. There is is a 20GB file size limit. The file you upload must be a Supported Content Format or it will fail to upload. Note: If you use Teams or have media stored on your OneDrive you can set up automatic syncing to your Library.
Manage, Edit, and Share Media Collections in your Library
| Managing Your Library Media
All content recorded with EchoVideo capture tools or those that have been uploaded or synced from Teams or OneDrive can be managed and edited before sharing with students. Create a Collection and share with others then set permissions on what you are allowing members to do with your media. Set up notifications for things that are important to you like capture processing and engagement, they are seen via the bell icon. Visit your Account Settings page. The resources below include instructions for managing and editing your media.
Library Media
Collections
This is a feature that allow users with an EchoVideo user account to share media outside of a Canvas with others then set permissions for each added member. You can choose from pre-set roles or can choose a custom role for what you're allowing when a member accesses your media Collection. You can add any media that you want to a collection, name the Collection a short/concise title like you would for a class or a project.
Media Editing
Tip: Looking for an advanced video editing?
We recommend to using Adobe Premiere Rush Video Editor. Available for faculty and staff through Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app. You can apply visual and audio effects, add titles, picture-in-picture, etc., Note: When downloading media from EchoVideo it will download the video and audio tracks separately.
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Closed Captions (CC)
All media has a video transcript when captured with EchoVideo, you can edit your transcript directly inside of your Library. You must review and edit your transcript for accuracy in the event you have a student with visual or audio challenges. Once your transcript is edited, it must be 99% accurate, before you can apply Closed Captions (CC).
Important Note: Before you edit your transcript ensure that you edit your media first, so that both the media and transcript are synced with each other.
Transcript Editing and Applying CC
Embedding Videos in Canvas (recommended for Modules)
Quickly reuse, record new, or upload videos right in Canvas's Rich Text Editor does not require you to have a course as long as you have an Echo360 user account you can embed your videos in Canvas. All embedded videos will import successfully to other Canvas courses.
Benefits of embedding media in Canvas
- Recommended for Asynchronous Classes: Quickest and easiest method for posting videos.
- Access the easy embed button: Look for the electric plug icon in the toolbar.
- Features: You can embed audio, video, or interactive media into Canvas content types (e.g., Announcement, Assignment, Discussion, Page, Quizzes, or Syllabus). Easily embed existing media individually or create a Playlist.
- Expiration: Students can always access embedded media as long as your course or content type is published.
- Student access: Computer or mobile device (Android or iOS).
- Supported Browsers: Lastest version of Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge, or the Canvas student app.
- Gradebook: Coming soon in Winter 2025
Using the Easy Embed Tool via the Rich Content Editor (RCE)
Publishing Media to a Course (Active Learning Platform)
Requires faculty to request a new course/section each semester. Provides a shortcut access to your Library, Courses, Collections, and the Create button.
When you fill our our course request form an admin creates your course(s) which is most common for scheduled classes/Live Stream, creating ad-hoc classroom or publishing personal recordings. A EchoVideo course provides a virtual classroom and tools that instructors, teaching assistants, and students can utilize before, during, or after class.
| Course Features
Some quick reminders on having a Echo360 course are below:
- Recommended for Synchronous and Asynchronous Classes: Allows students to access classes in real-time or after class.
- Access via the EchoVideo tab: Located in the Canvas menu.
- Features: The virtual classroom allows students to attend class in real-time. Instructors have the capability to provide a PowerPoint or other supplemental material to a class. Instructors can view student participation, set engagement metrics for your course, and more.
- Expiration: Students can access published content in a from the start and end date of the current semester only.
- Student access: Computer only
- Supported Browsers: Lastest version of Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge
- Gradebook: You can create an Assignment and push points to the Canvas gradebook.
Explore this article: EchoVideo: Adding an EchoVideo Link to a Canvas Course – Support (echo360.com)
| Classroom Features for Students
- Classes: Allow students to rewatch what was taught during an in-person class or an online class.
- Q&A: Allows students to post and respond to discussions related to the class.
- Notes: Allows students to take notes while watching which at time stamped.
- Study Guide: Automatically created when students take Notes or create bookmarks.
- Presentation: Allows students to follow along with a PowerPoint presentation at their pace.
- Polls: Allows students to answer polls you have added to a PowerPoint presentation or to a video.
| Help articles
Engage Students with Polls, Q&A, and Track Usage Analytics
| Enhance Student Learning and Participation
There are various tools available to increase learning retention and analyze student performance.
Adding Polls
- Add embedded polling slides to a video gate student learning, students can only answer the poll once. Can embed to the Rich Text Editor or publish to an EchoVideo course.
- Add embedded polling to presentations and get feedback during class or a Live Stream. Students can answer the poll until you close it. Used within an EchoVideo course.
Using Disussion and Q&A
| Student Analytics
No matter how you publish your content EchoVideo provides usage Analytics, this is different from Canvas Analytics. There are 2 ways to access student engagement Analytics in Canvas. Data includes all student names and their participation.
Course/Section Analytics - Features
On the course home page, click Analytics tab. View Analytics (aggregated data) by class and/or students, additionally, monitor student participation, identify the least engaged students, view confusion flags, and more. Set weighting metrics for your classes, and push points to the Canvas gradebook.
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Classes
- Overall student participation and engagement in each class.
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Students
- Shows participation and engagement data for each student across all classes published in the course.
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Weighting
- Choose from preset metric weighting or custom the metrics for what is important to you, the metrics set correlate with what you set for engagement.
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Engagement
- You will see the list of students with the least participation and a list of confused flag locations that students marked, clicking a confusion flag will open the class. Another way you can see where there could be content that students find confusing is by viewing the hotspots overlaid on the video in the class.
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LMS Gradebook
- Decide what metric you want to export to the Canvas Gradebook, there are four different metrics you can export. Note: You must have already created an Assignment link inside of Canvas.
Hotspots/Heatmap in a Classroom
Both students and instructors can turn on or off the “hotspots” in a video or heatmap, when enabled a graphical overlay appears of where what segments of the media has been watched the most by users.
Media Analytics for all Classroom or Embedded media (granular data)
In the Canvas menu, you can view media Analytics (embedded media via the Rich Text Editor and/or published media to a EchoVideo course) in one consolidated location, click the EchoVideo Course Analytics tab. The Views tab includes all playable media. The Polls tab includes polling response information for presentations or interactive media.
Integrations with EchoVideo
Integration with Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and Zoom
Save time and extra clicks. Enable or subscribe OneDrive folders or Teams recordings to your Library. Automatically import and publish videos made to your Library. You don't have to be using Teams to set up a OneDrive subscription. Additionally, if you use Teams you can add the Echo360 app for a one stop access to your content. If you have Zoom (pro Account) your recordings will automatically publish to your Library.
Student Support Guides
Student Access and Engagement
Students will have access to your content inside of Canvas. As the instructor you can choose when students can view your recordings and/or presentations. There are a few ways based on how you published your content in Canvas.
EchoVideo Course for Synchronous/Asynchronous Classes
Provides all media in a list and includes several Lecture tools to use during or after class. Use Discussion, Q&A, or Polls, to engage students in-class or remotely. Students can access course content on a computer, but they must use a supported browser. EchoVideo allows various ways to engage students and help increase their learning. EchoVideo integrates with Canvas, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and Zoom.
- Students can view missed lectures.
- Students can take Notes, ask Questions, and review a class or lesson recording at their own pace.
- Students can participate in Discussion and respond to polling questions.
- Students that take Notes will automatically have a study guide.
Note: Instructors can’t use previous media from a past semester unless you have a new section cloned with the same content or current students won’t have access to them.
Student Guides for a Classroom
The lectures tools are available for all classes including Live Stream classes. Students can:
Embedded videos in Canvas for Asynchronous Classes
Embed videos in Announcements, Discussions, Pages, etc. Enable the Discussion tool for Q&A. Gather feedback or assess student learning with polls. Students can access your videos on a computer or a mobile device (Android or iOS).
Note: Instructors can embed previous recordings and newly created videos at any time, you always have access to your Library content. Students have access to your embedded videos as long as the Canvas course and content type are published.
Student Guides for Embedded Videos
Record and Live Stream Anywhere, Analyze Engagement, and Enhance Student Retention
Important Note: Student View doesn't work in Canvas, faculty can disregard the LTI error.