Adding content to the Course Section in Echo360

Echo360 is the university’s hosting platform for videos and multimedia content that can be shared via your subject site. However, for students to access videos via your subject site or in the Echo360 platform directly, content first needs to be added to your course section in Echo360 and then shared.

 

Why?

While we can now embed Echo360 videos directly into our subject sites via the Atto editor, having videos and other content available in the course section in Echo360:

• provides a space for students to view subject videos on demand and in one place.
• allows teaching staff to access advanced course-level video analytics.
• provides a space to publish prescheduled recordings (via LPMS) along with other pre-made or alternate video media.
• allows supporting content to be viewed in conjunction with linked presentation materials (e.g., PDF or PowerPoint slides).
• enables students to utilise the Echo360 Active Learning Platform (ALP) functions such as polling.

How?

Before adding content to the course section in Echo360, you will need to:

• Make sure you have an Echo360 recording schedule set up or request one via LPMS. Instructions are available in the IMTS Knowledge Base Article, Scheduling Echo360 Recordings.
• Upload the media to your Echo360 Library. Click Create then Upload Media to select and upload a video file from your computer:
  

 

There are 2 ways you can publish a video in your Echo360 library to a schedule. These are covered in the following resources:

1. Share (Publish) a video from your Echo360 Library to a class
2. Adding/Publishing a video directly to the Class in the course schedule

Echo360 support also have a helpful guide on adding supporting content such as PDFs or PowerPoint slides to your videos.