LibGuides: Technology Guides for Faculty and Instructors: Echo360

Using Echo360
How-To Videos

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Faculty and students can record and upload videos they create to their Echo360 accounts. This can be done directly in Moodle or via https://www.echo360.org using their Viterbo email/password.

Reminder: Please do not upload content that you have not created. To stream institutionally-owned videos, please visit the Online Conversion to Digital Format Request form. If you have questions, email the reference desk at reference@viterbo.edu.

Echo360 Support

If you have issues viewing or playing Echo360 videos, email support@echo360.com or coursehelp@viterbo.edu

For additional instructions, go to this Echo360 support site.

How to Embed an Echo360 Video into a Moodle Page Resource
The Moodle Page Resource is a great tool for making Echo360 videos available to students within your Moodle course.
How to Use Echo360 to record a narrated PowerPoint Presentation
Echo360's Browser capture can be used to record a narrated PPT presentation that can be submitted to Moodle assignments and/or forum activities
How to Use Echo360 to Record a Zoom Meeting to the Cloud
Recording a Zoom Meeting to the Cloud automatically saves a copy of the recording to your Echo360 Library.
Using Echo360 (in Moodle)
This is a quickstart guide for Echo360, Viterbo’s platform for sharing videos. In Moodle, Echo360 can be used ad hoc via any text editor or set up a space in your course for videos using the Echo360 tool.

Setting up an EchoVideo Assignment Activity in Moodle
Students can submit EchoVideo recordings to Moodle Assignment Activities.

Using the Echo360 Video Media Editor
Echo360's video editor provides a basic set of video editing functionality.
How to Edit the Beginning and End of your EchoVideo Recordings
EchoVideo includes an Edit Media Tool that allows you to polish your EchoVideo recordings.
How to Edit Sections within your EchoVideo Recordings
The Edit Media tool in EchoVideo allows you to quickly remove segments within your recordings.
How to Combine EchoVideo Recordings into One Video
The Edit Media tool is a simple way to combine two or more recordings from your Library into one video.

How to Download Videos from Stream (Classic) and Upload the Videos to Echo360
Microsoft is rolling out mandatory updates to Stream, their video application for Microsoft 365. As part of these updates, Microsoft will be retiring the Stream (Classic) interface. Videos in Stream (Classic) need to be saved by April 15, 2023.

How Students Can Use Echo360

How Students can Use Echo360
Students can use Echo360 to upload, create, edit, and share videos as well as submit videos for Moodle activities.
Use Echo360 to Share/Submit Videos
Viterbo's new video platform is available for students to use! Learn how to record and submit a video assignment or record your PowerPoint presentation.

How Students Can Submit Video for Moodle Assignments
Students can submit Echo360 videos using the text editor located within Moodle Assignments.
How Students Can Add Video to Moodle Discussion
Students can add video to discussions (and assignments, if online text is allowed).

How to Use the Echo360 Mobile App
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The free Echo360 mobile app allows users to upload video captured with phones or tablets to their Echo360 libraries from which the videos can be shared, submitted to Moodle, etc.

EchoVideo Teaching and Learning Tools
Support resources available at the EchoVideo website.

For Faculty/Instructors:

How to Use Echo360 Ad Hoc in Moodle
Instructors (and students) can use Echo360 anywhere there is a text editor with an editing bar at the top in Moodle. This video walks through accessing and adding videos via the text editor.
How to Use the Echo 360 Tool in Moodle
Using the Echo 360 Moodle Tool allows instructors to integrate Echo360 within their Moodle courses. This video shows what the tool can do and how to set it up in Moodle courses.
How to Embed EchoVideo Files in Moodle Activities and Resources
Use the EchoVideo tool button in the Moodle text editor to embed media from your EchoVideo Library into Moodle Activities and Resrouces

For Faculty, Instructors, Staff, and Students:

How to Use EchoVideo via www.echo360.org
Instructors, employees, and students can use EchoVideo outside of Moodle by logging in directly at www.echo360.org. This video demonstrates options available when users login to their EchoVideo accounts.

NOTE: Students may not have immediate access to EchoVideo if they haven't used it in a course already. The easiest way for students to make sure they can access EchoVideo is to click the EchoVideo button in a text editor in Moodle.
How to Use Echo360's Universal Capture
Instructors, employees, and students can create recordings using EchoVideo's (free) Universal Capture (UC) software. This video explains the process for capturing video using UC.
How to Use Echo360's Browser Capture
Browser Capture is a simplified method of creating a recording using any computer. While our Universal Capture software is a lot more feature-rich, this In-Browser recording feature can be run on any computer that supports browser use, including Chromebooks.
How to Upload Media to your Echo Video Account
Media can be uploaded to your EchoVideo account from your computer, a cloud service like OneDrive, and/or your mobile device.
How Students can Use Echo360
Students can use Echo360 to upload, create, edit, and share videos as well as submit videos for Moodle activities.

How Students Can Submit Video for Moodle Assignments
Students can submit Echo360 videos using the text editor located within Moodle Assignments.
How Students Can Add Video to Moodle Discussion
Students can add video to discussions (and assignments, if online text is allowed).