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Faculty: Echo360 Personal Capture

Echo360 Personal Capture allows faculty to create audio and video captures on their own desktops for use in Blackboard Learn. Contact the Faculty Technology Center at 575-7401 or ftc@uark.edu for Echo360 technical support.

Get Started

To publish recordings, you must be a presenter and be assigned a course and/or section in the EchoSystem Server (ESS). Contact the Faculty Technology Center at 575-7401 or ftc@uark.edu to request an ESS account.

Download Personal Capture software:

  1. Log in at learn.uark.edu and click Software & Support.

  2. Click Echo360 and download the Windows or Mac installer.

Capture

  1. Open Echo360 Personal Capture software.

  2. Click Start Recording.

  3. Select your devices. Click Configure to change your device settings.

  4. Click Start Recording.

  5. When you're done recording, press Alt+F2 or click Stop Recording in the system tray.

  6. Click Publish Recording.

  7. Enter your UARK username and ESS password.

  8. Verify your course and section. if you are not assigned a course and/or section, contact the Faculty Technology Center.

Published captures are available for use in your Blackboard Learn course. You can also view, edit, and download published captures in the EchoSystem.

EchoSystem Overview

After logging into ESS, users with Presenter status will see the Echoes and Configuration tabs. If you don't see these tabs, contact the Faculty Technology Center.

The Echoes tab shows a list of previously uploaded captures and allows faculty to manage content. New users will not see any captures listed unless they were assigned as presenters to previously recorded captures. An uploaded capture will not appear immediately in the Echoes tab. Presenters will receive alert emails when content is available in ESS.

The Echoes menu provides the capture title, the presenter's name, the term, capture start time, and the status of the content. To the right of the capture title, a list of links are available for viewing and managing content.

  • View opens the capture in the Rich Media Player. If a webcam was used to record the capture, the webcam video will be displayed within the Flash-based interface.
  • Play mp3 opens the content in an audio-only mp3 format.
  • Play m4b opens the content in an enhanced podcast format that includes audio with still images at chapter markers.
  • Play m4v opens the content in a vodcast format that includes audio with full motion desktop video.
  • Edit allows a presenter to edit the content of a capture, as well as the capture title, publishers, and presenters.
  • Download allows you to download all of the published capture content to your desktop.
  • Closed Caption allows you to download the mp3 file used for closed captioning. Automated closed captioning is also available.
  • Delete is used to delete an individual capture. Deleted captures can be retrieved from the Deleted subtab in the ESS.

Clicking the capture title link will display information such as direct links to the full rich media output and RSS feeds if enabled.

ESS Password

To change your EchoSystem password, click your username displayed in the lower right corner. To request an ESS password, contact the Faculty Technology Center.

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