Online Learning Platforms for K-12 Make Learning Easier: Echo360

Shifting to online education from a traditional school can be a bit of a culture shock for students, parents, and teachers, but it also carries many potential benefits. For example, students can take more responsibility for their classes and feel like active participants in their education. Teachers can get real-time feedback on student performance without waiting for the test at the end of the chapter or term. Administrators benefit from a school management system automatically handling the logistics of education and other management tasks.

Echo360 has leveraged our educational expertise to create a learning engagement platform built for everyone, everywhere. We’ve used our proven e3 philosophy to develop additional tools such as EchoPoll, EchoExam, Knowbly, and Point Solutions as well. Like other K-12 online learning platforms, many of our platform’s features are designed to be reminiscent of a traditional classroom. Both students and teachers are already comfortable with in-person meetings, and replicating that experience is a fantastic way to pursue success.

Unlike most of our competitors, our platform is built to bring hybrid and online learning to the next level. Our cutting-edge technology allows students to pursue education whenever and wherever works best for them. Teachers are free to save time by reusing existing online courses or creating new ones with ease. Admins will find management easier too. Please continue reading for more information on how Echo360 is revolutionizing virtual learning.

What Features Do the Best Online Learning Platforms for K-12 Learners Need?

All K-12 students deserve an excellent education, so learning platforms have to offer standardized access to information. If a student misses class, they shouldn’t miss out on lab data from science or American history notes. Likewise, education should be accessible to all learners regardless of learning differences or sensory impairments.

Online learning is most effective when students are actively engaged with the information, so an online learning platform has to command their attention. If a platform lacks video capabilities, collaboration tools, or gamification elements, the resulting educational environment may not draw students in.

Students also need access to empirical data reinforcing their strengths in school while identifying any areas of opportunity for improvement. Sadly, traditional schools aren’t always great at empowering individual students to explore their unique interests and capabilities. Self-paced assignments on an online platform can be a great way for students to learn in an online environment where peer and parental pressure is removed from the equation.

While the student is a key component of the online learning formula, teachers are vital as well. A great platform will handle classroom management tasks such as taking attendance and collecting homework assignments automatically, allowing teachers to spend more time with pupils. Teachers should also have the option of using materials they trust instead of wasting hours creating unnecessary replacements.

Should an instructor choose to create new materials, they should have powerful yet intuitive systems to help them more effectively disseminate information. Teachers need a student management system to automate enrollments and monitor learning progress for every individual student as well. This data must be accessible immediately so teachers can adjust their online teaching as needed.

What Differentiates This Online Learning Platform from Other Platforms?

The ultimate goal of online learning is to deepen student understanding while empowering teachers to thrive. Here are a few Echo360-specific features that turn these goals into reality:

Accessibility Helps Everybody Learn

The typical classroom isn’t large enough for every student to have a front-row seat, and many students are eager to sit in the back and fool around instead of learning. EchoPoll doesn’t have the same constraints as a brick-and-mortar school, promoting equity in education by giving every student the same view. Our platform also meets or even exceeds all WCAG 2.0 guidelines, ensuring equity in educational opportunities for students with sensory impairments or other special needs.

Synchronous and Asynchronous Students Can Learn Together

The COVID-19 pandemic created a divide between learners attending school in-person and those opting for full-time online education. With EchoPoll, synchronous and asynchronous learners can attend the same lectures, complete the same assignments, and interact with each other on threaded message boards. Asynchronous students can watch live presentations they couldn’t attend while attendees can get a refresher on anything they didn’t catch the first time. How a student chooses to learn will not affect their ability to learn.

Analytics Track Online Learning

PointSolutions allows teachers to incorporate inline quizzes into their lessons and have each student’s scores sent straight to a sortable dashboard for easy review, ensuring that they always have the evidence they need to help a struggling student catch up. Students can also see how they performed on an exam or assignment immediately, allowing them to seek extra help before falling too far behind. Perhaps most importantly, students can participate in Anywhere Polling to provide teachers with prompt feedback on lessons, helping them to make changes that might make lessons more effective. Collecting comparable data in a traditional school setting would be impossible.

Quantified Engagement Promotes Online Learning

All teachers hope to engage their students, but EchoPoll can quantify it. Attendance is recorded automatically for remote and in-person students, so teachers know if their students are cutting without burning tons of time on basic management tasks. Likewise, teachers can tell who did their homework assignments at a glance and structure lessons accordingly. Gamification elements such as badges and live leaderboards also provide proof of a learner’s progress, identifying potential problems if a student isn’t keeping up with their peers. PointSolutions even provides actionable data in the form of live audience engagement scores to help teachers realize when it’s time to move on.

Searchable Video Content Facilitates Efficient Online Learning

Video has long been seen as an essential component of any school or online educational platform, and EchoVideo offers a suite of video management tools unleashing the instructional power and learning potential of video. Teachers can leverage a drag-and-drop interface to upload videos from sources like YouTube or take advantage of Universal Capture capabilities to easily record content. Either way, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology accurately captions video content to facilitate multimodal learning. Both students and teachers can search for key information as easily as they can use Google too as all captioned content is added to a searchable database. There aren’t any virtual learning systems that take better advantage of video than Echo360

Powerful Course Builder Makes Online Learning Easier for Instructors

While many learning management systems require coding expertise to create outstanding courses, EchoPoll includes a built-in course builder that anyone can use. Content is called a “class” if live and an “assignment” if not, with completed courses called a “deck”. Each deck is composed of customizable slides that can be saved and applied to as many other decks as you like. Best of all, you can freely edit content (including videos from external sources) via an intuitive interface to quickly create effective courses. Helping students learn has never been easier.

Share and Reuse Existing Online Learning Content

Many K-12 teachers already have PowerPoint presentations or learning management system (LMS) content they trust, and Echo360 lets them keep using it. PowerPoint presentations can be uploaded directly into our platform and edited like any other deck, and all of Echo360’s systems integrate with other LMS and LXP (Learning Experience Platform) solutions. Teachers are also free to share content, making it easier to draw connections between courses. Instructors in traditional schools seldom have similar opportunities.

Intuitive Test Creation Tools Streamline Assessments

Teachers want to help students learn and that often requires administering exams to assess their progress. Writing tests can be a headache, but EchoExam makes it easy with an extensive question bank featuring content from leading academic publishers such as McGraw-Hill and XYZ Textbooks. Instructors also have access to thousands of items aligned to federal Common Core standards, so you can easily create study guides and assignments from the same question bank as your assessments.

If you don’t see the questions you need, you can edit existing ones or create your own multiple-choice, numeric-response, true/false, and essay items. A question randomizer and bimodal functionality preserve equity in test-taking by allowing teachers to immediately generate up to 26 versions of a test. EchoExam even collects data on the performance of every student so you always know who understands what. You need great systems in place to verify that online learning is working for every student, and EchoExam can help.

Ease Administrative Tasks Through a Powerful Student Management System

Admins frequently fall by the wayside when planning virtual learning as management is seen as a lower priority than supporting students and teachers. Fortunately, the experts at Echo360 understand that schools would cease to function without management and built a robust student information system directly into EchoPoll. Administrators can easily see enrollment information and grades for every student on a sortable dashboard. Admins can also enroll students in courses individually or by group to streamline classroom management. Unfortunately, many competing learning management systems make management a nightmare by locking information and functionality behind different tabs, if they offer the right data at all.

How Can Remote Learning Platforms for K-12 Students Replicate In-Person Instruction?

Students in a traditional learning environment often take notes from a whiteboard while their teacher explains a concept. EchoPoll has a virtual whiteboard and video chat capabilities that facilitate the same thing. Instructors can also invite pupils to solve a math problem on the whiteboard while their peers watch them work. If there’s any information on the screen that the instructor doesn’t want pupils to see, they can hide it from prying eyes. This screen-sharing capability presents numerous possibilities to the creative teacher, ranging from anonymous polling to reaching out to a student in need of extra help.

Likewise, K-12 teachers often split pupils into teams to play games or facilitate group work. EchoPoll has virtual meeting spaces and breakout rooms that allow the same thing to happen remotely. Breakout rooms are reminiscent of a Skype call as participants can hear and see fellow group members but nobody else. Instructors can pop in and out of each breakout room to keep discussions on track without constantly being present, helping each student feel independent as they pursue their learning goals. Breakout rooms can also facilitate one-on-one time with the instructor if a student needs personalized support.

That said, our platform offers several advantages that the traditional classroom cannot. For instance, all class meetings are recorded, allowing students to access them on-demand whenever they want a refresher on the parts of speech or algebraic notation. EchoPoll facilitates two-way communication as well, ensuring that even the shyest student feels comfortable enough to ask for assistance or provide feedback on how a lesson was structured. Sadly, many pupils refuse to raise their hand in a classroom setting when they know that all of their friends are watching. You need proven systems in place to overcome this common educational hurdle.

PointSolutions takes this aspect of online learning to the next level by allowing instructors to incorporate polls and review questions into lessons and access student responses immediately. If the vast majority of the class understands a concept, the teacher now has the data they need to move on. If there’s evidence of widespread confusion, the instructor can spend more time on it even if that wasn’t the original plan. A traditional classroom environment will never be as adaptable since you cannot solicit student feedback without interrupting everything else, nor can you guarantee student participation if you’re willing to accept the interruption.

Echo360 automatically optimizes content to be viewed on smaller screens, allowing anyone to use a tablet or smartphone just as easily as a desktop computer for online education. Students can choose when and where to access educational content, promoting the learning process. Online homework allows a student to develop time management skills since they won’t have a teacher or parent constantly reminding them to do it. This flexibility leads to increased engagement in education as well because pupils feel like they have agency in the learning process. Otherwise, school can feel like a chore rather than something to look forward to.

Online Learning Works Better for Everyone with Echo360

Asking children to learn online presents unique challenges that many aren’t prepared to face. Similarly, asking teachers who have performed their job one way for decades and now have to reevaluate everything they know about education is bound to receive pushback. If an admin isn’t convinced that online education will make their management role easier, they may be skeptical as well.

Still, schools are increasingly turning to full or part-time remote learning to give learners and instructors more control over the school day. Online education allows most classroom management tasks to be automated, giving instructors more time to spend with pupils. Administrators get the systems they need to better monitor learning progress. Most importantly, studies show that online school improves retention by up to 60 percent.

The schools that get the most out of online education will be those that seek expert help with the transition, and you won’t find anyone more knowledgeable than Echo360. We encourage you to explore our suite’s features in further detail or look at the e3 philosophy that inspired them. Once you do your research, we’re confident that you will agree that we’re among the best tools for facilitating online education!

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Online Learning Platforms for K-12 Make Learning Easier: Echo360

What Features Do the Best Online Learning Platforms for K-12 Learners Need?

What Differentiates This Online Learning Platform from Other Platforms?

Accessibility Helps Everybody Learn

Synchronous and Asynchronous Students Can Learn Together

Analytics Track Online Learning

Quantified Engagement Promotes Online Learning

Searchable Video Content Facilitates Efficient Online Learning

Powerful Course Builder Makes Online Learning Easier for Instructors

Share and Reuse Existing Online Learning Content

Intuitive Test Creation Tools Streamline Assessments

Ease Administrative Tasks Through a Powerful Student Management System

How Can Remote Learning Platforms for K-12 Students Replicate In-Person Instruction?

Online Learning Works Better for Everyone with Echo360

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Best-In-Class Learning Management Solution

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Reporting & Analytics

Dynamic Bimodal Versioning

I Want More Engaging Interactive Lectures in My Classroom

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Leading educational institutions are inspiring learning with Echo360.

Related Resources

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What Is Competency Based Education (CBE)?

The Echosystem is our dynamic model of customized solutions that correspond to the relationship, environment, content, and assessment required:

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