I wanted to take this as a note to myself… but feel free to check it out yourselves.
This was shared during the session “The Case for Social Justice Assessment of Student Learning ”
Now I’m looking forward to the keynote speaker, Jesse Stommel, as he will possibly be talking about the topic of ungrading – and it sounds incredible!
So the first thing to say is that this is an opt in setup and you must have both types of accounts for it to work. The reason it is opt in, is so that office hours meetings or other private meetings that you might have associated with your zoom account, do not automatically get published to any course.
Another thing to note is that this integration is for cloud recordings from zoom. If you are recording locally, you would have to upload from the “upload media” dropdown in your echo360.org library and then share it to your course.
When this is fully enabled though, the zoom recordings will be automatically sent to echo360 library, and optionally, to an associated course, so that:
Let’s walk through how to opt in and then how to connect the videos to a particular course.
Opting in, only shares the zoom recordings to your echo360 media library. It does not connect it to a course, so this part is good for creating recording backups and does not expose content in any way to the public. This may be a good idea to enable if for no other reason that zoom charges for storage of recordings, and because of this, recordings will be deleted from the system on a regular rolling basis.
Login to your echo360 account by going to echo360.org and logging in with your stonybrook email address followed by your netid and password info.
Go to the gear icon -> Account Settings
From there click on Zoom Settings in the left column
Change the toggle to On
At this point, you will see that meetings are set, going forward, to be added to your Echo360 library. You will also see a table of Zoom Meeting IDs, with their Meeting Name and where they are currently mapped to go. If you don’t want to share any of these zoom meetings, leave them mapped to “Library Only”. If you do want to associate a zoom meeting room with a particular course, simply use the drop down menu under Echo360 Sections, to choose which course/section you want that Zoom Meeting ID mapped to.
You can always come back to this Account Settings page to turn this feature back off.
Here is further information from the Echo360 support pages including:
We also have a troubleshooting page for zoom that can be found here: https://it.stonybrook.edu/help/kb/zoom-troubleshooting-tips-signing-in-microphone-blackboard-general-issues
Thanks to Julie & Nichole for their tips as always!
Though we recommend running Zoom in the Zoom app… this may work for live captioning if you Zoom from Chrome instead. Try it out and let me know!
The first demo is inside of Google Meet. While we are a Google Apps campus, the fact that we can record right now freely inside of Google Meet is actually a feature that Google turned on during COVID-19, and not something that normally is included.
Google Meet does have a live captioning feature (run by computers) that comes with Meet. However, as you can see in the screen shot below and compared to the recording, not only does it not give you any documentation of that live captioning afterwards, in the form of a transcript or regular closed captioning, it even disappears from the recording as well. (How rude!)
screen shot from recording of same meeting:
Now in Zoom.
Screen Shot:
To get the live captions, I shared my screen with Google Slides and turned on live captioning. This also does not produce a transcript at the end, BUT the live captions are captured in the recording, unlike Google Meet. On the other hand, because I recorded to the Cloud in Zoom, an entirely new ASR caption file is created after the recording is done being processed.
Here is a screen shot showing both the live captions and the new post process created captions at once:
Here is the actual Zoom recording**:
https://stonybrook.zoom.us/
And last but not least, a recording with echo360. This time the slide that I throw up to get live captioning leaves google out entirely. This one I use MS Powerpoint for the live captioning. This would have behaved the same way in Zoom.
One of the nice things about echo360 is that the viewers can decide how big some of the components are (using the Source pull down option), so it is possible to give those automatic captions a bit more window real estate for easier visibility.
Keep in mind, that the automatic captions in a recording are visibly seen, as I showed in Zoom and echo360, but are not screen readable. The post processed captions or transcripts are screen readable. On the other hand, the Google Meet recording does not show them at all in the recording and has no post process ASR capability built in.
Final break down:
** Don’t be hating on my COVID-19 pants!
Just an FYI…
Adding someone as a guest to your Blackboard course, DOES NOT give them access to your Zoom meetings. This is not a work around for bringing guests into a zoom session.
Someone wrote me and asked what Adaptive Learning was. Her is my quick answer:
“The idea of Adaptive Learning, is that there is a program monitoring the understanding/progress of the student, that can shift what their next course of action is (a reading, or quizzing, etc) based on performance. So it has built in remediation, and possibly acceleration, depending on the actual platform. Some of them are made by for profit publishers, and some work largely with open educational resources and funding from grants. They make an interesting case [as a tool] for helping students meet course objectives in a remote environment.”
Zoom has been around a while. Many people already have used it, even if their company or school never had it as their official web conferencing platform. Because we have had to suggest that all users be authenticated, it is important that you are arriving in the room with the correct account.
Inside the zoom app, check that you are logged in with your stonybrook.edu email address.
You can see that in the upper right. If you are not, select switch account, and login through SSO. (Not Google)
Around two years ago, we started doing an exploration of different web conferencing solutions. As part of that, I had a free testing account with zoom. After some time, I had made my mind up on which platform I wanted to recommend, and stopped testing. Time passed and we didn’t immediately switch to the new platform. My account expired with zoom.
Then come the Covid situation and suddenly we are standing zoom up on campus in 24 hours, and for most people it was working great. For me, not so much. If I went to stonybrook.zoom.us I got an error when trying to login with single sign in. If I went to the LTI link in Blackboard, there was mixed results depending on if we tried deleting my account and sending a new invite to the system. I tried incognito windows and different computers/browsers. Nothing worked.
Then finally, I went to zoom.us and tried to open my old test account directly. I didn’t remember the password, and sent off a “forgot password” request. Set the new password, logged in and saw that I could change my email. That seemed hopeful. (In fact I had been telling faculty before we stood zoom up, that if they wanted to become familiar with zoom, go ahead and get a free account, but don’t use your stonybrook.edu email.) When I changed the email, they sent an email to the stonybrook.edu account that I had to click to actually make the switch.
After I clicked in that email… the SSO issues finally went away and I could use my zoom account.
So – maybe this struggle is real for others. Hopefully someone else can learn from my issues.
When you create the LTI link inside of Blackboard using the Build Content -> echo cloud link, this hooks your course to one semester’s set of recordings. If you need to connect to more content from a previous semester, you can either go to your library, and add individual recordings to the current semester: (see below for second option)
log into echo360.org and go My Content to find the recordings you want to share.
when you hover over a recording with your cursor, you see three dots, click that and go to Share
Pick the current course and term and section that you are going to send this content to.
Select New Class , give it a name, optionally give it a date, and click Share.
or you can make a access link from the previous semester and add that to your current course:
Log into echo360.org and find the course you want to share in it’s entirety to the current semester.
Click on the older course, and then find the SETTINGS tab at the top. Click that.
Click on Access Links. It will probably say there are no links. Click on ADD LINK.
Select Public and then click and share the link as given. Put this into your current Blackboard course as desired.