What is Echo360?
Echo360 is a robust video creation and video management system that will enable faculty to create and post to Blackboard lecture videos, record and live stream face-to-face class meetings, and incorporate student interactivity within presentations. With Echo360, faculty will be able to create their own instructional videos or video lectures from their campus or personal computers or from within the classroom. Sessions can also be live streamed while being recorded, which would enable faculty teaching face-to-face to live stream and record their in-class lectures from within UHCL classrooms. Echo360 enables the recording and live streaming of two simultaneous video channels, meaning that instructors will be able to use/display information from the computer workstation, document camera, and/or the camera on the computer or in the back of the classroom.We will begin offering informational/preview sessions about Echo360 to faculty in the first week of July. In the meantime, feel free to visit the following links to learn more about Echo360 and to begin thinking about how you may want to use it this fall:
UCT is currently working to ensure that all UHCL classrooms are equipped to include both cameras and microphones to support capture and streaming. However, none of the cameras will follow the instructor as they move away from the instructor workstation. Initially, some classrooms will have a back-of-room camera that will provide a view of the front of the classroom, but they will not track faculty movement or zoom in on the white board. Some classrooms will be limited to using only the built in camera on the computer or monitor itself. As UCT acquires Echo360 and the hardware needed for the classrooms, we will provide more information about how each classroom is equipped.
