Name: Transforming Learning with EchoVideo
Uploaded: 2025-05-15T18:01:52.122Z
Duration: 28 min 36 s
Description: Transforming Learning with EchoVideo

Transcript for "Transforming Learning with EchoVideo": Alright. Hey, everyone. We're gonna wait a minute to just to get everybody in the room. So bear with us while the Goldcast system lets everyone in. If you're in the chat and you're ready to go, I'd actually like to pose a question for everyone today. Go ahead and put into the chat where you're hailing out of. So what location are you in? It'd be nice to see, where you're all at. Oh, nice. I see, California, Florida, Canada, UK. Wow. Looks like we got all the oceans covered. Alright. Yeah. Just about another minute or so, and we'll get going. Alright. I am getting the signal that we are ready to go. So hello, everyone, and welcome. We're gonna go ahead and, just get kicked off here. My name is Blake, and I'm the director of sales enablement for Echo360. And we're excited to have you with us today. We're gonna explore a topic that's transforming classrooms, campuses, and the way students engage with learning content all over the world. Today, we're talking about the future of lecture capture in higher education, and let me tell you, it's more than just pressing record. It's about creating immersive, flexible, student centered experiences, and Echo Video is proud to be at the heart of that transformation. So higher education is at a crossroads when it comes to choosing video lecture capture technologies. Today's learners expect more. They want content that's engaging, mobile friendly, interactive, and accessible on their terms. And institutions, they need solutions that are scalable, seamless, and smart. That's why lecture capture is evolving beyond just the basics. It's no longer just about recording the screen or a voice, it's about creating a digital classroom that meets the students wherever they are, and whenever they're ready to learn. This is where the ecosystem comes into play. As the world gets more complex, we simplify learning transformation into one singular source. Here at Echo360, we're combining video capture, in class remote live engagement, high stakes exams, and content authoring and distribution all in one place. All with the power of AI, not only to enhance the student experience, but to help instructors create, manage, and assist their learners by integrating all these wonderful sources of data into one singular source of truth. There are no other vendors today that can bring this much to the table, and because it's all interoperable, we can synergize all these interaction points back to the LMS, whether it's for you to see a holistic grade book of their digital participation, but more importantly, to help students understand where they are and how they can improve. Okay. So we're gonna dive into echo video today. Lots of really amazing innovations we can talk about from the rise of multi camera and 360 degree video to create more immersive lecture experiences, how interactive features like real time polls and quizzes boost engagement and retention, why mobile compatibility is no longer just a nice to have but a must have, and how seamless LMS integration ensures everything works together effortlessly. Plus, we'll show you how Echo360 Video makes all this possible today, not just in the future. So common problems we solve start with content management, simple yet powerful lecture capture components, offline support and challenging conditions, tracking and analytics, embedded quizzes, and, of course, syncing to the LMS grade book. With our seamless integration with Zoom and Teams, facilitators can launch classes to have all the recordings automatically transferred and stored into their course. Let's imagine you're a biology professor. You're in a hybrid classroom. Some students are with you in person, and others are tuning in from halfway around the world. With Echo360 Video, you'll get multiple camera angles, including a 360 degree view of your lab demo, live polls to check understanding, and students can bookmark key moments and review later on their phones right from your LMS. This is not science fiction. That's the power of Echo360 video, and it's already changing the way educators teach and learners connect. Remote students can collaborate with their peers, making it easy for them to feel like they're all in the same room. Here's just an example of a learning space podium where there's an AV controller with Teams room all working together. With QuadraVision, we can support up to four channels at once, meaning we can have a live view of the instructor, a camera of an example, and two more of their screens that they can show while they're doing it. And of course, like I've mentioned before, 360 degree video allows learners to be there looking around with the instructor. I'll show you a demo of this shortly with a view within a lab to help the students orient themselves around the equipment area and places they need to know about before walking in and, of course, maybe knocking over a beaker or putting their hands in the biohazard waste. Alright. With that all being said, let's jump into the demo. Okay. So I'm gonna start out in Canvas. Really, pretty much any LMS that you guys decide you wanna use within Echo360 video can provide the same experience. But for today, I'm an instructor. I'm looking at some of the published courses that I have internally, set up and what I'm gonna be deploying out to my student base. As I do this, I've got a multitude of different options for integration. So, for example, as I click into this biology one zero one lab, I've got different ways that I can orient this left bar to integrate some of that Echo360 video content that I might want to show to them. For example, if I might have some pages that I want them to see for, hey, here's the course information page and I need them to to start looking it over and and incorporate maybe some Echo360 video recordings into that area so that they can see an introduction on the course from that page or that module that we can also surface to the student. Here's an example of just some of the courses that I might have available on the Echo360 Video side that I've integrated into this nifty little button called Echo360 University, and this can be really called whatever you wanted. It's an LTI integration and it basically allows for that interoperability for an instructor to surface videos or attach videos to courses and material that they may have. So the first video that I might have in here is this course introduction and lab visit. So I can select that just to preview it here, and this happens to actually be a 360 degree video, so I'm gonna go ahead and play this out. Material comes in and, really, I I suppose it's fair to say that a lot of what we do is involves the analysis of specific biomolecules. So the first thing that happens is you might want to be fractionating your sample to self separate different cellular components. And for that, you would typically be using facilities such as this, which is a a set of, different centrifuges. Right. So in this video, I can actually look around and take a look at what parts of the lab I'm gonna be experiencing. Really nice way for me to to see that right away, as I'm looking into that video. As you can see, that's just one of the videos. I can launch another video in here, add new assets to that video. So what you see here with this button right here, this is actually the video itself that I've attached to this course, but I can also attach other material in addition to just the video file. For example, you can see this Add Presentation button and I can import maybe a presentation that I've already uploaded into here. I think I already have cell membranes as a PDF that I want to attach in here, so I could upload that PDF and pull that into the content in addition to the video. That way when they launch this content, they'll have both assets available. So not only will they have the recording with the screen that my instructor has here, but also the asset PowerPoint presentation that the student can swipe through each of the different video screens that are available. So just a little bit on the player here, what I'm seeing now is obviously a view with all three of these screens, at about the same size, but I can always change that. So you can see the layout button allows me to do things like a picture in picture, or maybe featured speaker picture in picture, even like a split view with horizontal pictures of his video screen, the video, and the slideshow upload that I've done. This way, it just makes it a lot easier experience for the student to decide on what's best for what they want to see. Every video that I upload has a transcript and that transcript is usually between 9599% accurate. We actually use a partner with us called Speechmatics that has some of the best transcription services in the world, and really what it's allowing us to do is search within that transcript instantly. So if I've got something like cell biology that I want to start searching for, I can see all the instances in which that particular term has been said. By clicking on it, skips me right to the section exactly where it is in that video that I need to reference, really making it easy for me to come back later as a student and find information very quickly that I might need coming up on the midterm. So that search functionality within the transcript area is super important, also allowing me up here to flag different content that I might wanna bookmark for later. So if I'm a student, I can go ahead and flag that. I can also see comments in here as well. We'll jump into the student view in a minute and see how that all looks, from their perspective. But that all can be set up, in this little toggle tab that switches over, from that video feed. So, anyway, we've got our little video here that we can attach to that course. As I'm looking at content, you know, that's going to be based on the information that I want to have published, and that I've recorded. If I need to create new recordings, let's go over Capture Options. So, capture options can come in a multitude of different ways. We have what's called a Browser Capture, which, as you can expect, if I click on it's going to just fire up a browser instance allowing me to do a quick recording and then have that recording put into either my library or a specific destination like my course. So I can go ahead and do that, add my screens, etcetera, and record that through just my browser. Simple enough. We've also got what's called a software capture option, and the Software Capture option allows us to launch a product called Universal Capture. Universal Capture allows me to have more than just two screens. There we go. Now I've got my capture of my camera window. I've got my second screen and then maybe my iPhone or other camera that I might want to have as well. So, all this can be simultaneously input into the recording. That software capture comes in real handy, obviously, for having multiple camera views all simultaneously. We can also do what's called the device multiple camera views all simultaneously. We can also do what's called the device capture, and we actually have a set top device that can connect into my room. We call it an Echo360 Pod. Have it set up on a schedule every Thursday morning at 9AM. This pod goes up and starts the recording and places it into the right library with the right instructor. So that capture module can be attached, like I said, to a hardware device that we actually have available and and can provide to the university. We also can have it be a software appliance. So you can just put that software installation onto a laptop and then have that laptop be set to do that same kind of capture scheduling. Obviously, on the publish options, we can do that in advance and have that all ready to go, or we can swipe this into a live stream and have this start capturing right now. Lots of different options there for either a classroom capture with the device or if we just had an uploaded media. If we wanted to grab some media that we've already recorded from ourselves, whether we're using an external piece of software like Camtasia or just QuickTime movies, then grab that media that we've recorded and upload it here into the upload media area. We mentioned earlier that 360 degree video, so that's obviously where you'd want to upload that video file. And then if we've done any integrations with Zoom or other meeting services, we can grab that as a capture source. Having that Zoom meeting automatically record and pull it in, if I wanna start a Zoom meeting up right away and have that be available to my students right now, and I can click and copy that Zoom link and just send it out to them from there. And I don't have to be, in Echo360 Video in order to get to this capture screen. As you can see, I've integrated it right within the LMS. It's already authenticated me into the system and making it really easy for me to preview everything that you're seeing here without leaving this environment. I'm actually going to move over into the student view and take a look at what their view looks like. So bear with me a second while I log out and I'll just jump into a student. So as a student when I log in, similar view, I've got the different dashboards of courses that I have available to me. If I've got course information that I need to review, let's go to the overview of histology for example, I can just use that echo video integration to put that player directly in line with the content that I'm seeing. So I can play this video, I can go into my assignments area, and I can see assignments that I have due for me. So here's where I need to review the tissue module and actually create my own video. So as a student, I can upload my own video into here to prove that I've done this. So I can go in and create that browser capture or software upload if I need to that I pull into, a file that I would submit. So I can go into one of these courses, for example, let's call it the Nucleus Nucleolis course, and and go ahead and watch that video and then upload my response to that course here. Now in the student view, one thing that you didn't see earlier within the teaching view was some of the notes and highlights that might come up for this content. So as I open this up, you'll see there's a little transcript bar that allows me to do searches. It's also got comments that students or other faculty is going to post into that video recording. So if it's the teacher or maybe a TA or somebody else that's answering questions, they can go ahead and put that in here. People can upvote those questions, and they can also see replies. And so if the facilitator, for example, is replying with a video or uploading that or answering the question, they can do that. One thing that's also something that's really popular and has been something that we've really seen a lot of students enjoy is the ability for them to put an anonymous comment or content in here. So not necessarily wanting them to feel reluctant because they don't wanna ask a dumb question in front of everybody, they can hit hide my name and ask an anonymous comment or question into this recording. They can also reference the class content that they're seeing right now. So if I went in minute sixteen of this video and I happen to have a question specifically within just this part of the video, I'll reference this in my comment. You can see here it puts a time code into the comment that allows the instructor to see exactly the spot in which I'm referencing for that question. So that's just a really quick and easy view for the student to see what other comments are happening on that video. Let's expand this out and take a look at some of the other features within the settings of the player. I've got my quality settings if I wanted to download in full quality or if I wanted to open up different subtitles either on the bottom or the top of my page. We'd like to say at Echo360 we have a fantastic accessibility offering. Students in this case can not only just see closed captions, but they can also see font size options, contrast modes to make it easier and more accessible for them to see not only captioning information, but also data around heat map. For example, if I toggle this on as a student, I can see the peaks and valleys that happen within the instruction with the most interaction, whether it's just viewing the video or, more importantly, the most parts of the video that were bookmarked, or had a question on. As you can probably expect, a lot of this kind of happens when the instructor mentions something that might be on the final or an exam. So those parts of the video you'll see spike up, and the student can see that in this heat map and kind of reference that part of the video that might be most popular in that area. Other things, as you can see, is I can turn off the sources if I don't want to be bothered with one of the videos and kind of pull that down. So that's really easy for me. And one thing that we've also seen with our medical students is the ability to speed up the playback and without having it, kind of chipmunketize the the voice of the instructor. If I move this into a faster view, so that way I can get through this content quicker or review this, before final without having to spend the exact amount of time that that particular lecture was taking, I can change that playback speed and and see that muscle cells, which have these elongated nuclei. The shape of the nucleus is different, but so is So it actually does sound pretty good even if it's in that faster view, allowing for those students to consume more of that content quickly. We mentioned bookmarking or being able to flag that content. So the bookmark is where I'd want to put a mark on that content for me to access later. Confusion flag, as you see here, allows me to send a signal back to the instructor that I'm confused about something. So if I go in here and flag this in that scene, that actually tells the instructor that you're you're confused on this particular area and allows that instructor now to come back in and comment or address that confusion flag with the individual independently. Obviously, we can talk about captions and transcription. You can see that we pulled the transcription over into this area as well, so we can reference what's being said directly within the transcription area. One other nice feature that I see a lot of students using is this download Transcriptions button. So this really allows them to not only take all of the transcription down from the transcripts file, but also throw that into ChatGPT or some sort of AI notes referencing system, and it can take that entire transcript and distill that down for that student so that they can have a nice way to, to take notes from that particular lecture without too much trouble. So transcription files are very accessible, very easy to get back from here as well. Alright. So that's a look at the student view, and hopefully that gave you a pretty good idea of how we could not only view videos, but also submit video content if it's related to an assignment process. What I'm going to do now is go back into my instructor view, and the instructor view now is going to take a look at some analytics that is available to me for the students that have been working in that class. As an instructor, let's just jump into one of these histology courses, and we'll take a look at some of the analytics. So the first analytics view that you can see has to do with the entire amount of videos that I might be pushing out to my classes. So I'll go back into, my class view here, and I'll go to analytics and see all the different videos that I published out and the amount of interactions that they've done within it. Now, in any one of these videos, we can have polls or other different types of quiz questions, so we can see how many of those were answered. We can see things like how many times they viewed the slide deck or had a question or confusion flag. All that aggregate reporting data shows me in advance right here to any one of these different videos, and as I select them, or just click on that video, I can see the amount of people that jumped into that video and saw it. Those definitions really help me understand if not only they attended the live session, but also how many times they viewed the video, viewed the slide deck, responded to poll questions, and did notes on the video directly. So a lot of that data is actually dependent on the engagement metrics for that specific waiting mechanism that I would set for the course. So if this is a hybrid course, I might want to have a combination of attendance and video views together depending on whether or not they're attending live or if they're viewing that after the fact. But we can actually change this up into in class learning where it only cares about attendance that's live and that's present, or the opposite, if it's remote learning, we're not really caring about attendance because we're recording all this content in advance, and so we can see that video views is pushed to the top. In addition to just video views, we can also make sure that they're viewing my presentation, asking some questions, and putting in their own notes. And activities are based on the polling or the questions that I have in the content. So a combination of all these engagement scores really then allow us to see a more weighted engagement score for our students. For example, if I went back to learner view, so I can actually see what we call the engagement metric score or the weighted engagement score specific to the learner on either that view of, an aggregate of all of their activities within all the courses or a specific recording that we've created. Those engagements, like I said down here, also show me things like least engaged students or content that's often most confused. Right? So, if I wanted to filter off of the most confusing content in the specific areas that I've seen the most confusion flags, I can quickly jump into that as an instructor and address that right away. So, that Analytics is really easy for me, like I said, to just jump into at a high level. We also have a consolidated analytics view that we've most recently introduced with LTI 1.3 that allows to see things like total views of all media day by day. So as time goes on, we can see all this video views, kind of stack up throughout different releases that I might have with some of the coursework that I'm setting up. And then I can see average view time or percent views, on demand views, live view counts specific to that. Really, this comes down to is how do I now integrate not only the view data but also the polling and engagement data. As an example, let me jump into a module with a poll. So I'm gonna play this video. As I answer this poll, it will record that specific to me. Right? And so I can put in these responses to the recorded lectures that I post up as a student, and then that student engagement data, like I had mentioned on the polls, is something that's consolidated into this view here. So how many responses am I getting in total, and how many of those are being correct? Maybe specifically with the polling questions that I have, and which responses are getting from who. So that's all syncing up into the Gradebook that pushes back to the LMS, and we can set that Gradebook sync up to happen at a frequency that makes most sense to us. So that grade book sync we can do manually, or we can add a metric for a schedule to have that sync up as often as we need. Alright. So let's talk about some new functionality that's coming out in the next month with Echo360 video that's super exciting. One of the things that we're doing is adding some AI capabilities. We call it Ask Echo360. Some of the parts of the video titling and descriptions area that you'll see when capturing media. So in this example, I've got a piece of content in my library that I had recorded and in this details area, I get a new box on the bottom that says Ask Echo360. So I'm gonna click on that and rather than using the title, obviously, that was just created called teams and zoom dot m p four, what I've got here is the ability for Ask Echo360 to generate metadata for me. And as you can see, it's gonna generate titles, descriptions, even tags, and create a summary of what content is in that video. So I'm just going to hit Generate All and just like that, Ask Echo360 is going to start generating my content off of what's in the video recording here. So instantly now instead of that boring title that was basically created off of a recording that I did, I have Echo360 video integrations with Microsoft Teams, OneDrive Zoom, and Webex explained is now my details. And if I go to the general area, you can also see some wonderful tags that it's offered in here as well as a description that's been created right off the bat with this ask echo button. So super easy for me to generate that on the fly when that video is captured. If I've got constant captures that are happening in different classrooms, this will save my organization a ton of time being able to have to go in and rename all these video recordings, because it's just looking through the content and doing that for me. In addition to that, it's also going to create chapters. So, by hitting Manage, you can see that it's automatically time stamped and and put in different chapters here, for that video recording, or I can go ahead and download that chaptering data, or just edit, when and where that chapter might start and stop. New chaptering, really exciting stuff coming from the Echo360 team. Alright. So with that being said, we're gonna jump into our q and a area. Let's go ahead and open up the questions area, and we'll address some of the questions that you guys have asked. If, if you haven't asked a question yet, feel free to go ahead and do so in the chat, and we'll jump into a little q and a period.