As the student appetite for online replay of their education increases, administrators face mounting pressure to provide reliable capture in more places on campus. Echo360 simplifies the capture, assembly, publishing and final delivery of rich media educational content. By automating the end-to-end process—and implementing key features like visual confidence monitoring—a campus-wide blended learning and lecture capture service can be managed from a central location without increasing staff.

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Schedule

For Echo360 venue-based captures, institutions can establish semester-long schedules based on date, time, classroom and instructor. Schedules can also be driven by EchoSystem scheduling APIs. For ad-hoc events, faculty can start captures through an easy-to-use web interface or a room control system.

Capture

Echo360 captures audio and video sources, and existing course visuals from document cameras, Sympodiums and more. Captures start and stop automatically on either the capture appliance or podium computers. Faculty can pause and resume recordings.

Package

Echo360 transforms captured AAC course audio and H.264 video and VGA sources into ready-to-play rich media and podcasts. At the same time, Echo360 preserves the standard-based formats for future editing or repurposing.

Publish

Links to lecture recordings are automatically published to popular systems like Blackboard^®, Moodle, ANGEL, iTunes U or custom portals with the EchoSystem open publishing SDK.

Learn

On-demand, day or night, students can playback their courses on computers and mobile devices.

Monitor and Report

With a modern web-based interface to track lecture capture operations across campus, Echo360 proactively alerts administrators of capture success or potential problems. Usage reports give faculty visibility into their most popular lectures while administrators gauge viewing habits and system capacity.