https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/KBL931001391
The question library is where you keep the myriad questions that you will use when creating assessments.
They can be moved from one course to another using the course import/export tool under course admin.
There are two different ways of sharing echo360 content in Blackboard, and therefore two different ways to reuse the content as well.
Most instructors at SBU currently link to their echo360 videos via LTI links. This has been the only way in the past to get the analytics that you needed, give the students the active learning tools and also automatically post new scheduled recordings as they happen throughout the semester. Using the LTI link is the process where you are going to a content area where you want the videos to be placed, selecting “Build Content -> Echo Cloud”.
When reusing the LTI link in a course you have copied from a previous semester, you will want to go to where the link was made (it will still be there), click on that link and reconnect it.
The second way and previously feature sparse method (but this has been rapidly changing!), is to embed the echo360 content into any area of your site that gives you the ability to use the Bb text editor. You can embed content using the wysiwyg editor using the button : “Add Content -> Echo360 Video Library”. It looks like a plus sign in a circle and is the last button on the bottom right.
When you have embedded content and you run a course copy, the video will still work without further tweaking. It is for this reason, and because echo360 has been working hard to bring all the features to the embed model that already exist in the LTI links, that we will be suggesting using embed going forward (at least, as soon as playlists are up and running and that could even happen this week).
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These pages are here to provide Instructors a walk-through of the more commonly used features of Echo360. The pages contain click-through infographics, videos, links to our online documentation, and Quick Reference Card links, available for viewing and download as PDFs.
Start with the Overview. Learn about the typical uses of the platform, navigation in and around Echo360, and get insight from other instructors on creating media and engaging students.
As more instructors are working to create video content for their courses, I thought I would offer this up for use.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
Available for Windows, Mac and Linix in both a free version and a Studio paid version.
This is already an industry standard, so go ahead and suggest it for student use as well.
What is VT Universal?
It’s a version of VoiceThread that is fully accessible to screen readers. It is the first thing a screen reader will detect on VoiceThread’s website, and it can be set as your default if you rely on a screen reader. Click here for full documentation.
Accessibility Trajectory
At the start of 2021, we released the new and improved version of VT Universal. This reboot created a strong foundation for us to continue adding more and more features until Universal becomes the standard experience. In the end there will no longer be two separate views of VoiceThread. The unified interface will be fully accessible. Adding the ability to share was a major step in this direction.
More features added to VT Universal in 2021
We are passionate about making high-quality interactions accessible to all learners, and we’re very excited that we’re so close to the finish line for this long journey.
I wanted to take this as a note to myself… but feel free to check it out yourselves.
http://sunyinnovativeassessments.com/
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!
If you watch echo360 videos as part of your class, and your instructor has told you that you have not been watching them… AND you use a universal blocker, you may need to add echo360 as a trusted site.
for example, for ublock specifically – add this to trusted sites:
@@||api.echo360.org/analytics-collector/player/beacon
@@||api.echo360.org/analytics-collector/player/session
Note… the fact that you watched the video won’t count until after you have these lines in place, so you would still need to replay the video for it to show up in the analytics that your instructor sees.
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:
