Say you are an instructor. Â You want to use Blackboard and echo360 active learning or capture platform. Â You have TA’s or Course Builders in Blackboard.
So, you set up a schedule of captures through your support people for your course. Â You do want to publish these captures to Blackboard, so you also create this link (or maybe the support people do it for you.) Â Now you and your students can click on the link in Blackboard ( for us it is a video link in the Content Area of Blackboard course…) and see all the captures. The instructor also sees a dashboard of interesting analytics and has increased possible functionality.
But here is the crappy part: TA’s and Course Builders get Instructor roles in echo360.org.
So – that neat feature where Instructors would actually have a button in their account that allows them to add an ad hoc capture on their own? Â That has to be turned off. Â When you use this feature one can book a recording in any room that has an echo appliance… not just the one that you class actually occurs in. Can’t have students just recording content from any place they want. Â Sometimes grand rounds even happen in these rooms.. whoops HIPAAÂ violation!
I like to allow Instructors to delete their own content. Â Nope. Â Turn that off.
Let instructors make copies of their content? Â Nope.
Well… maybe the primary instructor for a course could just go in a demote students that have instructor roles in echo360 back to students? Â Nope, instructors can only add more instructors. (I actually tried this as an admin… and yes, I can demote an instructor – theoretically to student. Â Only when you actually do this, it doesn’t make them a student at all… it removes them entirely. Â Don’t worry though, as soon as that TA goes back into Blackboard again and clicks through to echo360, they will be back in the course again — AS AN INSTRUCTOR.)