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Instructors and students using Echo360’s active learning platform can now use Echo360’s streamlined design and intuitive interface to view lecture slides, watch course videos on-demand, and even capture and upload video content and publish it to the platform. View lecture slides - Interact with in class polls. From the editing toolbar in LATTE, click on the Echo360 button in the top left corner.; In the dialog box, click on Create New Media.; Click on Launch Universal Capture.; A new tab will open in your web browser. Click on the Mac Download link.; Locate the Universal Capture Installer file.
UMass Amherst instructors with Echo360 accounts can now use their UMass Amherst NetID and password to log in to the Echo360 server and Personal Capture software. This blog post describes these changes and provides information on how to use the new login process.
Echo360 Server
To log in to the Echo360 server and access your instructor Dashboard:
- Go to https://echo360.umass.edu. The Web Login window will open if you are not already logged in to a UMass Amherst service that uses single sign-on (SSO) (e.g., Moodle, Box).
Note: If you are logged in to a service that uses SSO, you will not need to enter any credentials, and your Echo360 instructor Dashboard will open. - Enter your UMass Amherst NetID and password.
- Your Echo360 instructor Dashboard will open.
If you created an Echo360 password when you registered and confirmed your account, you can still log in to Echo360 at https://echo360.org using your email address an Echo360 password. This option could be useful in the unlikely event that the UMass Amherst Web Login and SSO services are not operational.
Personal Capture
Prior to the Fall 2016 semester, UMass Amherst Echo360 Personal Capture users published their recordings using their email address and Echo360 password. (Not their UMass Amherst NetID and password.)
Installing Echo360 Personal Capture Client (Mac) Login to a web browser and type in your NetIDand NetID Password. Once logged in, click on the Downloadstab at the top of the page. Once the Downloadstab loads, click on the Installer for EchoSystem Personal Capture (Mac OS X)link under the Filecolumn. As of this date, PCAP will cease to work with the Echo360 platform due to enhancements in the capture pipeline that will only work with Universal Capture. It is of utmost importance that all Echo360 clients complete their transition to Universal Capture by this time. Known Issues for capture on some Retina Display Mac models. Echo360 Community Conferences Join us at an Echo360 Community Conference near you to network with your peers, share video capture and active learning best practices, learn about new product capabilities and roadmap items, and discuss research and initiatives for the year ahead.
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Starting November of this year, Personal Capture users can log in to and publish recordings with Echo360 Personal Capture using their UMass Amherst NetID and Password.
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To use this new sign-in process, you will first need to update your Personal Capture software.
Windows Users
To update Personal Capture on your Windows device:
- Open Personal Capture by clicking on the Desktop shortcut or by going to Programs>Echo360 Personal Capture.
- If you are running an outdated version of the software, the lower left corner of the Personal Capture application window will indicate if an update is available. (See image.)
- Click the update link and follow the prompts.
- After the updater has finished running, follow the instructions on the Configure Personal Capture for Windows Defaults Echo360 Support page to log in to Personal Capture with your UMass NetID and password.
Note: Early in the login process, you will be prompted to enter the email address associated with your Echo360 account. In most cases, this is the email address that you use for Moodle and Blackboard. For instructions on how to see what email address you use for Moodle, see our Edit Your Moodle Profile & Preferences Help page.
For questions or help, please contact the Instructional Media Lab ([email protected] | 413-545-2823).
MacOS Users
To update Personal Capture on your Mac:
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- Open Personal Capture by clicking on the Desktop shortcut or by going to Applications>Echo360 Personal Capture. If you are running an outdated version of the software, you will be automatically prompted to update.
- Follow the prompts, and download, unzip and run the installer if you asked to do so. (See image.)
- After the installer has finished running, move the installer .zip file and icon to your trash.
- Open Personal Capture by clicking on the Desktop shortcut or by going to Applications>Echo360 Personal Capture.
- Follow the instructions on the Publish a Recording from Personal Capture for Mac Echo360 Support page to log in to Personal Capture UMass NetID and password..
Note: Early in the login process, you will be prompted to enter the email address associated with your Echo360 account. In most cases, this is the email address that you use for Moodle and Blackboard. For instructions on how to see what email address you use for Moodle, see our Edit Your Moodle Profile & Preferences Help page.
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For questions or help, please contact the Instructional Media Lab ([email protected] | 413-545-2823).
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Universal Capture: Personal is a stand-alone application designed to be used by Instructors on their personal computers to generate video recordings outside of the classroom environment. This section provides information and links to Echo360's instructions for configuring and using Universal Capture software.
Note: Echo360 Universal Capture has replaced the older Echo360 Personal Capture software. Echo360 no longer supports the use of Personal Capture sofyware. If you have Personal Capture software installed on your computer, you should uninstall it and install Echo360 Universal Capture.
Echo360 will remove access to Personal Capture in Fall of 2019. If you have any questions, please contact the Instructional Media Lab at 413-545-2823 or [email protected].
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Download the Universal Capture Software
To download the Echo360 Universal Capture software:
- Navigate to echo360.umass.edu and log in with your NetID and password. The Echo360 Library page will open.
- On the Echo360 Library page, select Settings (the gear icon) and then select choose Download,
- On the Downloads page, select the version of the software for your computer (Mac or Windows).
For detailed instructions on downloading the software, including minimum system requirements, see Echo360's support page Installing the Universal Capture Desktop Application.
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Logging in to Universal Capture
Universal Capture users can log in to make recordings with Echo360 Universal Capture: Personal.
- Open the Universal Capture program.
- In Universal Capture, select Click here to login. You will be directed to a login page in your browser.
- On the login page, enter your UMass email address. You will be directed to the UMass login page.
- On the UMass login page, enter your NetID and password. A prompt will ask if you would like to open Echo360. Select Open Echo360 capture.
After you have logged in, you will be able to begin making recordings on your machine.
Use Universal Capture
The Echo360 Universal Capture software interface is designed to be intuitive and user friendly. Once you make a recording with Echo360 Universal Capture, it will upload to the Echo360 system. You can specify whether a recording is published immediately to a course for students to access, or if it is unpublished so you can review and/or edit it before making it available.
To begin making a capture:
- In Universal Capture, on the Preview page, select Edit capture details. The Capture Details window will open.
- In the Title field, to enter a name for your recording
- In the Publish to drop-down, select where you would like to recording to go. The default location is to your Echo360 Library.
- Click Save.
- In the Preview window, select your display and microphone inputs. The selected inputs will appear in the preview windows.
- Click Record to being recording. A 5 second countdown will begin, and the software will minizmie itself when it begins recording.
- To pause, finish, or cancel, return to the Universal Capture software.
- To pause a recording, select the Pause button.
- To resume a paused recording, select the Record button.
- To finish a recording, select the Stop button.
- To cancel the recording, select the Cancel button.
- Your recording will automatically upload to the destination you selected. You may close the software or begin another recording.
For links to instructions on creating a capture, see Echo360's support page Create a Capture.