When teaching students online, it’s important to engage their attention. They may be struggling with distractions around them like the TV or radio, people coming in and out, and pets that want attention. Any of these things can seem more interesting to your students in the moment, making it difficult for them to stay engaged. But when you use interactive lectures, you are more likely to keep your students’ attention.
Echo360 has developed a portfolio of engagement solutions designed to achieve engagement and positive learning outcomes. The Echosystem consists of EchoVideo, EchoEngage, EchoAuthor, and EchoExam. These tools work together so you can deliver a successful interactive lecture every day, every time you teach your students.
Preparation is everything when it comes to delivering successful interactive lectures. The Echosystem helps you create content that makes interaction with your students the primary focus.
Use EchoVideo to create and edit eye-catching videos that grab students’ attention. Playing these informative and entertaining videos during interactive lectures gives students a break from your voice while presenting important information in an additional way. You can also use EchoVideo to show a graphic that relates to what you are saying while the sound is still recording your interactive lecture.
EchoVideo gives you the option of hiding student names while sharing your screen or conducting in-class discussions. This allows students to submit comments and questions anonymously, which may make them more willing to open up. While other students can’t see who asked what, you can see the names during your interactive lecture and note students who may need additional help.
Use EchoAuthor to create assignments for the class to complete between interactive lecture segments or between classes. You can also create assignments for individuals or small groups of students who need a bit more engagement with a particular concept. It’s easy to deploy these lessons to as many or as few students as you wish with just a simple click of the mouse.
The lessons you create in EchoAuthor can use gating to control the learners’ progress. Add in specific elements that must be completed before additional content is revealed. You can use this gating feature to add comprehension questions during each assignment to make sure the student is understanding the information before they move on.
You can then use your LMS to monitor learner progress and adjust your interactive lectures as needed. You may review a concept that several students have not completely understood, or you can choose not to go over a concept that the students have grasped very well. By preparing well for each interactive lecture, you can make sure that your learners are fully engaged during the lecture and with additional assignments.
Breaking up informational lectures with activities that involve the students to be fully engaged is easy with EchoEngage. After you have thoroughly explained a concept, you can conduct a poll for students to respond to by using their device or a clicker that you provide. You can easily see if any students have not responded, and require their participation before moving on.
EchoEngage also makes it easy to separate students into breakout rooms during your interactive lecture. You can put students in pairs or small groups, each with their own room, to solve a problem or discuss a concept and come up with something to share with the class once you reconvene as a whole. You can “drop in” to each breakout room to answer any questions students may have or to get them back on track if they have strayed from the assignment.
Instructors, administrators, and learners everywhere can now experience the most comprehensive suite of learning engagement, assessment, and authoring solutions.
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Instructors, administrators, and learners everywhere can now experience the most comprehensive suite of learning engagement, assessment, and authoring solutions.
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With over 14 different question types, you can match the assessment to the material at hand. Use traditional test question types such as true/false, multiple-choice, multiple response, numeric response, matching, completion, short answer and essay to review, re-teach and reinforce learning.
Ensuring that learners understand the information presented and how it can impact their success is key. Assess, track and analyze learner performance. Get results immediately and view valuable reports at the individual level, or for the class or group as a whole. Provide results in real-time, or at a later time as preferred.
With dynamic content, generate multiple iterations of exam questions to test the same concept. Use bimodal to toggle between multiple-choice and short answer question types, immediately changing the item difficulty level.
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