EchoSystem Student Guide
The EchoBlock
Students access their lecture recordings for a subject through the Echo Block, found on that
LMS subject’s homepage;
The default position for the Echo Block is in the right side column, but your lecturer may choose
to move it to the left column and it may appear at the top or bottom of either column. Click on
the link just below the Echo360 icon to access your subject’s recordings.
NOTE: If you are using Internet Explorer, you will get a message at the bottom of the
screen immediately after clicking the link for your subject recordings in the EchoBlock;
Click the ‘Show all content’ button; any other action will result in navigation to your
recordings being cancelled.
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Alternatively, if you are using an older version of Internet Explorer, a pop-up dialog box
will appear directly after clicking the link for your subject recordings in the EchoBlock;
Make sure you click ‘No’. If you click ‘Yes’, navigation to the video editor will be
cancelled.
You will only encounter this issue when attempting to access the editor with Internet
Explorer.
Check the Known Issues section at
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/it/teaching/echosystem if you are having trouble
accessing your recordings.
The EchoCenter
The EchoCenter is the portal through which you will access all available recordings for a
specific subject.
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Available recordings are listed on the left side of the EchoCenter. To view a recording, click on
it in the list then click the ‘Play’ icon on the right side of the page. A ‘launch’ page containing
some viewing tips and copyright information will open. Click the ‘Play’ icon again to open the
recording.
You may also download audio and video files of recordings to be played back later on your
computer or mobile device. The ‘Downloads’ link can be found in the bottom right section of the
EchoCenter page. Note; once you click on a download link, a popup page will launch.
Depending on your browser settings, you may need to click to allow popup temporarily
or ‘from this site’.
You can view what automatic lecture recordings are scheduled in the future by clicking on
‘Other’ in the Course Echoes section. The date and time of the next scheduled recording is
displayed at the top of the EchoCenter screen regardless of which section you are currently
viewing.
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EchoPlayer
EchoPlayer is the software that students use to view recordings online. It is launched when a
recording is selected and the ‘Play’ icon is clicked in the EchoCenter.
The video can be navigated via the timeline at the bottom of the player window. Standard play,
pause, chapter forward and chapter back buttons are also available (default chapter length is 5
minutes).
Apps
There are also a number of ‘apps’ available to the student on the right side of the player
window;
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Scenes – allows you to jump to a specific time in the recording, similar to the way
chapters function on a DVD (the default scene length in EchoSystem is 5 minutes). A
thumbnail image of the video is displayed for each scene.
Search – If the video being played contains images of text (PowerPoint slides or other),
EchoSystem will run an Optical Character Recognition scan so that words and topics can
be recognised by the system. Searching on terms will return time coded matches that
can be clicked on to be viewed when those terms are present on screen in the video. If
the video has captions, the search functionality will also search the captions file.
Bookmarks – allows students to add bookmarks to the video in order to tag important
sections or areas that they want to quickly return to later. These bookmarks will remain
attached to the recording for as long as the recording is available.
Discussions – students can create discussions or ask questions related to specific
points in the video. Once a discussion has been submitted, it is visible to other students
viewing the same recording and they can respond to the original question or talking point.
Info – The name of the recording, the instructors (lecturers) for this subject and copyright
information.
Help – Keyboard shortcuts for EchoPlayer functions.
Feedback – Submit feedback about the EchoPlayer to Echo360.
Share – social media (Facebook and Twitter) integration.
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