6 Reasons Echo360 is the Smarter Video Platform Choice When Moving from Tegrity
When changing video providers, you should invest in the most modern and innovative software-based capture platform from the leader in higher education video solutions.
The Simplest, Most Advanced Software Capture for Mac and PC - No Additional Hardware Required.
Echo360’s Universal Capture is an innovative software capture application that works identically on Mac and PC, both for classroom and personal recording. With Universal Capture’s intuitive user interface, instructors and students can select sources and then start recordings with a single mouse click, slashing user training and support costs. Administrators can optionally schedule recordings to start, stop and publish automatically, requiring no user action at all. Universal Capture will record and live stream any video source recognized by the computer, including leading capture cards. The software uploads and processes video in real time so that recordings are available for immediate playback, without lengthy processing on local computers. Users can easily create and view videos using Echo360’s convenient mobile application available on IOS and Android devices.
Enhance Your LMS with Active Video
To Echo360, education is not a market, it is our mission.
Echo360 is tightly integrated with Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, Moodle, and Sakai so instructors and students can access video capabilities and content through the LMS they use every day. Courses and users can be automatically provisioned in Echo360 via the LMS, eliminating the need to manually configure the system. From within the LMS, instructors and students can easily initiate recordings and embed videos in course pages, student assignments, discussions, and any other locations. Additionally, Echo360 is the only video platform that can extend your LMS into the classroom with student engagement activities like contextual note-taking, discussion threads, and real-time polling that are captured and synced to the class video recording.
Automatic Video Transcription Improves Accessibility and Student Learning
Echo360 videos can be automatically transcribed via Amazon Transcribe, a secure, native web service that provides highly accurate speech-to-text transcription without requiring transmission of sensitive data to an external provider. During Echo360 playback, students can view a synchronized transcript panel to read along with the audio, search for content, and copy text into their notes, providing a multi-modal learning experience that increases the effectiveness and accessibility of your video. Transcripts can also be edited into fully compliant closed captions, but they are never automatically published to the closed caption track since they are unlikely to meet the 99% accuracy required by accessibility laws. Echo360 includes a sizeable amount of video transcription hours with each license and has the lowest rate for additional hours, making transcription scalable and affordable across your institution.
Active Video Measurably Increases Student Success
Echo360 is the only video platform that improves student learning via an interactive classroom environment with tools to promote engagement, such as live in-class polling, time-synced notes and discussions, and a unique transcript window that makes video more accessible and engaging. With Echo360, students are able to interact with their instructor, the presentation materials and other students before, during and after class, whether on campus or remote. Students engage with video content, instructors, and each other to create an active learning experience that can be reviewed and replayed at any time and these interactions create unique student engagement analytics that are predictive of student success. The interactive classroom is available via any browser or via the Echo360 mobile app, so students can engage with the device of their choice.
A Modern Software Platform with a Commitment to Innovation and Affordability
In recent years, Echo360 has invested tens of millions of dollars to build an innovative video platform on a modern technology framework, capable of scaling easily and affordably. We didn’t just move our legacy offering into the cloud — we built an entirely new platform from the ground-up using Amazon Web Services to maximize resource efficiency, minimize your operational costs, and employ an agile development process for rapid new feature release every two weeks. Transformative new Echo360 features include universal software capture, intuitive campus video management, and the industry’s most cost-effective automated transcription. With Echo360’s flexible pricing options, you only pay for active users, whether you are starting with a small pilot or looking for campus-wide usage at a fixed price.
A Dedicated Customer Success Team to Ensure a Smooth Transition
To Echo360, higher education is not a market, it is our mission. Founded by educators, we have focused exclusively on active video solutions for education for more than a decade. We employ a high-touch customer success model designed specifically for the real-world needs of colleges and universities around the world. Echo360 is the only video platform provider that designates a dedicated Customer Success team for each client comprising the following roles:
- Customer Success Manager
- Deployment Manager
- Training & Development Specialist
- Technical Support Representative
Our team has successfully migrated numerous institutions from Tegrity to Echo360. We will be there to get you started, help you scale, and provide ongoing support.
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