Increased Faculty Interest in Echo360 - Training and Support Options

Our team has been excited by the growing interest from faculty regarding the Echo360 video creation, storage, and deployment services. First offered to UHCL instructors for the start of the Fall 2020 term, there have been nearly 250 faculty/staff who have used Echo360 to some degree, resulting in a current inventory (as of December 2021) of nearly 6000 videos in the system. For those not already familiar with Echo360's features, it is a cloud-based service that "combines video management with lecture capture and active learning to increase student success." 

Among Echo360's many features, the following are primary options for its current use at UHCL: 

Echo360 Universal Capture - used to create instructor-generated lecture and demonstration videos and to stream classes (from UHCL classrooms or remotely) 

• Zoom Integration - enables faculty to have recorded Zoom sessions also saved directly in their Echo360 Library for long-term storage 
• Video storage for videos created outside of Echo360
• Video deployment into Blackboard courses (including student videos to be submitted as part of discussions, assignments, etc.) 

Training and Support Resources - Beginning in Summer 2020, our team has offered or hosted a number of virtual training and informational sessions about Echo360. The following recordings of some of those sessions are a great place to start if you want to learn more about this system:

• Echo360 - First Steps: Class Sessions and Blackboard Integration
• Echo360 - Creating Lecture Videos with Universal Capture (Personal)
• Echo360 - Managing Your Existing Videos 
• Adding and Using Embedded Questions in Videos (Echo360)
• Locating and Using Analytics in Echo360 

If you have additional questions about using Echo360, please contact the Support Center at supportcenter@uhcl.edu to have a help ticket created. Our team will then have someone get back to you to provide additional support