Echo360, Recording a Lecture

Instructors have the ability to record lectures directly to Echo360 in their offices with their personal computers.

Requirements

Computer with Echo360 Universal Capture (Personal) installed.
Microphone connected or integrated with the computer.
Video camera not required*

* Currently Vet Med recorded lectures include the faculty's voice and any item they present on the screen, but not the faculty members face/body. Therefore a video camera is not required.

Installing Echo360 Universal Capture (Personal)

For Mac computers, please put in a ticket with IT@vetmed.illinois.edu.
For Windows users, please go to the Software Center Software, Installing Applications on Windows Computers using Software Center

Click on "Echo360 Universal Capture (Personal)"
Select Install
The software is now available. A desktop icon will be created called Echo360 Universal Capture.

Open the Application

Open Echo360 Universal Capture
Select Click Here to Login
Login with email (NetID@illinois.edu)
You will be asked to "Open Echo360 Capture? Select"Open Echo360 Capture"
You are now ready to begin a capture.

Recording a Lecture - Quick Start Guide

Open this 1-page quick start guide: Echo360UCQuickStart.pdf
Or for slightly more detail this 2-page quick start guide: Echo360UniversalCapture2-page.pdf
Under Edit Capture Details > Title: For title use the following convention: Course Number - (Lecture Number) - [Section Name] - Subject - Instructor

Example Core Curriculum: VM 608 - (3) - [Epidemiology] - Epidemiology as a Tool for Critical Thinking (Epi 1) - Johnson-Walker
Example Electives: VM 627 - (1) - [Equine Infections Disease] - Diagnosis of Common Infectious Respiratory Diseases - Austin
Example Professional Development: VM 617 - [Equine Techniques] - Castration Review - McCoy

Under Edit Capture Details > Description: Optional longer description.
Under Edit Capture Details > Tags: Optional search terms.
Under Edit Capture Details > Publish To... select Library
Record your lecture.

Recommendation: Run a test recording to familiarize yourself with the software. Confirm sound quality is good and video recorded expected screens. To view your test recording, login into Echo as an instructor [Link for document 99073 is unavailable at this time] and click "My Content". Be sure to include the word "TEST" in your recording title.

Associate Your Lecture with a Class

After you finish your recording, login into Echo as an instructor [Link for document 99073 is unavailable at this time]and click "My Content" to review the recording.
If ready to share with students, and your course is setup in Echo360:

If the class is already setup in your course, upload the lecture the class following the instructions in KB [Link for document 99254 is unavailable at this time]
If the class is not setup up yet, first add the class and then add materials following the instructions in KB Echo360, Add a new class, add materials

If your course is not setup, or you run into problems uploading materials or adding a class to your course, submit a ticket to IT@vetmed.illinois.edu indicating you want the lecture published. Include the instructor's name, title of the recording, date recorded, and date and time of the scheduled class the recording is for.
Note: Recordings with the word "TEST" will not be associated with any course and will only be viewable by the creator and Echo360 administrator.

Removing View Permissions to a Recording

If you need to revoke any recording (make it so no one can view it) please submit a ticket to IT@vetmed.illinois.edu with the instructor's name, title of the recording and date recorded asking that access to the capture be revoked.

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