EchoVideo is now listed on the Webex Marketplace! Administrators can now integrate with Webex directly, without needing to set up a manual configuration.

Webex Marketplace Listing

The ability for users to upload spherical (360˚) video is out of beta! This feature is now Generally Available and can be enabled at the Institution-level.

Spherical (360˚) Video

A new look for the Users tab as well as user-specific bulk actions!

Administrator Bulk Actions for Users

With our new Audio Descriptions, users will have the ability to add or create an additional audio track that describes and gives context for essential visual information.

Audio Descriptions

Administrators are able grant permissions to individual users that allow them to send their content out to be transcribed and/or captioned. 

Manage Caption & Transcript Permissions

Branding assets will no longer be 'burned' in at the time of media processing, but instead applied as components of a customizable Player Style.

Branding Updates

Administrators are getting more capture bulk actions than just the bulk delete function that exists today. Admins are now able to bulk change owners, reprocess media, and more!

Administrator Bulk Actions for Captures

Copyrights are here! We have introduced the ability for an Institution-wide copyright policy to be created, as well as the ability for a copyright to be applied to individual pieces of media.  

Introducing Video Copyrights

We will be continuing to build on Folders, making them them more feature-rich, adding more permissions, and more.

Folders: Phase 2

With this round of LTI 1.3 support, we will be adding the ability to link your LMS course to a Folder and have Folders automatically provisioned.

LTI 1.3 Provisioning & Linking to Folders

Institutions are no longer limited to one caption configuration! Unlimited configurations are now possible across one or more caption providers. These new caption configurations can also be set up for Organizations, Departments, and Sections so that published content is automatically sent out for captioning.

Multiple Caption Configurations

Building on the initial integration with Webex that was released in Q1, we are adding support for users to map their recurring Webex meetings to automatically be published into Sections within EchoVideo.

Webex Integration: Map meetings to Sections

We are rolling out the Recycle Bin for all users, allowing them to recover their own soft deleted content. If enabled by an admin, users will also be able to un-archive their content.

Content Management Policy Enhancements

Instructors will have the option to share content they have created with other instructors and administrators in their organization. Tests, questions, question banks, resources, and narratives or case studies can be shared within the organization.

Share Content with Colleagues

Content owners maintain the ability to choose how others in their organization can interact with their content. Instructors can choose to provide access for shared users to add the content to tests and exams, edit the content, or share the content with additional users.

Adjust Sharing Permissions

Instructors can quickly see all of their content that they have shared with others, making it easy to review and edit sharing permissions for any content.

Manage Shared Content

Instructors can quickly see all content that has been shared with them by others in their organization. Shared content is easy to find, review, and use based on the permissions that the content owner has configured.

Review and Use Shared Content

We will be bringing our Live Player up date to align with the new version of the regular EchoPlayer.

New Live Player

New metrics are coming to the Reporting API for transcription, closed captioning, and copyright usage.

Digital Accessibility Reporting API Enhancements

Capture responses from participants using Echo360 clickers when delivering a live session with the PowerPoint add-in or Anywhere Polling in the EchoPoll Companion App. Use our existing receivers to capture RF-LCD or QT2 clicker responses from your learners. Choose exactly how you want your learners to join a live session—with clickers, by QR code, by join code, or any combination!

Capture Clicker Responses with EchoPoll

Build, edit, share, and post media playlists with your EchoVideo content. You will be able to curate them in EchoVideo first or make them on the fly from within your LMS. Set auto-play next and gating options that will prevent users from viewing the next video before they finish the previous one(s).

Playlists

Use our new Folder structure to store, manage, and share large amounts of content. Organize your own content and collaborate on content with others in your organization easily. Admins can manage Institution Folders and delegate content access to others.

Folders: Phase 1

Enable H5P for your Institution to allow users to create H5P-specific links. These links can then be used to create H5P video content.

H5P Integration

Users will be able to add virtual backgrounds to their video input sources when capturing or editing content in EchoVideo.

Virtual Backgrounds

Add audio normalization to content within the media editor to manually adjust the audio levels.

Audio normalization

We are actively working with Anthology/Blackboard to determine and implement a migration path for customers who have legacy building block content prior to the end of support date on June 30, 2024.

Blackboard Building Block Removal Support

We will be prepped and ready to fully support macOS Sequoia when officially released.

We have upgraded our mobile app to support Android 14.

OS Support

 version of the player, with the same interface and controls, everywhere you access it. It's the classroom player, the embedded media player, the media details player, the public link player, the player in the media editor, etc.

New Player

Capture, process, store, edit, and play media from multiple channels (up to 4) with EchoVideo's Universal Capture featuring QuadraVision. 

QuadraVision - Open Beta

The new Rasberry color theme is coming to more areas of EchoVideo!

When adding equations to polling slides, instructors will have an additional tab for Chemistry functions, allowing instructors to create chemical formulas and equations within their Poll Decks.

Chemical Equation Support

Download, extract, and install the EchoVideo Tiny MCE plugins for your Moodle 4.1 or higher instance. These plugins allow instructors or administrators to easily embed EchoVideo media directly into content windows in Moodle.

Moodle TinyMCE Support

Instructors creating Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, or True / False questions in EchoPoll web or EchoPoll+ will be given an additional choice of “0, 1, 2” for their answer option labels. If they select this option, the first answer option will automatically be labeled as "0."

Answer Choice Display "0,1,2"

When creating a Word Cloud or Short Answer questions, instructors can choose whether answers submitted by learners are checked for capitalization.

Case-Sensitive Setting for Open Response Questions

Our new login page offers a smoother and redesigned user experience. The page will also be updated with our new branding with consistency across our other products in the Echosystem.

Updated Log In Experience

Now that we have a base feature for whether or not content has a copyright, we will be adding the ability for Institutions to configure specific licenses available for use. Media owners and admins will then be able to set which licenses apply to individual media.

Copyrights

Instructors will have additional options when creating a Hotspot Question. Choose the learner input icon, set different shapes for hotspot areas, and set alternate text to improve accessibility for learners.

Improved Hotspot Question

When creating a Poll Deck, instructors will have the option to use Echo.ai Assist to add interactive slides. Echo.ai Assist allows instructors to automatically generate multiple choice, multiple select, short answer, and true / false questions from their PowerPoint presentation. Echo.ai Assist uses instructor's content only - never additional online content - and never exposes instructor's content to others.

Echo.ai Assist for Poll Decks

Instructors will see slide types broken into distinct categories, allowing them to quickly find exactly what they need for each presentation.

Improved Slide Categories

We will be releasing a feature to block certain words being used as responses in moderator mode. Instructors will have the ability to disable this for specific sessions.

Session Chat Profanity Filter

A new poll deck editor will be available for instructors in EchoPoll web, including improved accessibility, and intuitive functionality for instructors accustomed to standard presentation applications.

Enhanced Poll Deck Editor

Instructors can add different points for different response options, allowing flexibility for participation and partial credit on polls.

Advanced Scoring

Carryover PointSolutions priority ranking features to EchoPoll.

Priority Ranking (PS < EchoPoll)

Instructors will have the option to block cut, copy, and paste functionality during any exam. When selected, learners will not be able to use keyboard shortcuts, right-click menu options, or application menu options to cut or copy items from the exam to their clipboard, or to paste items from their clipboard into the exam. These functionalities will continue to be blocked for all browser lock exams.

Block Cut/ Copy/ Paste During an Exam

For any questions where the learner is required to type a response, instructors will have the ability to turn off spell check for the question, preventing the browser from identifying spelling errors in the response.

Turn Spell Check Off for Questions

Instructors can quickly search for keywords or phrases throughout all questions in a test in order to update, edit, or replace them.

Find & Replace in the Test Editor

Updates are coming to Consolidated Analytics in EchoVideo, including updates to the Analytics page (pagination, updated cards, etc.) as well as the addition of a % viewed metric and the ability to download individual media data.

Improved Consolidated Analytics

Instructors will have the ability to adjust the correct answer for questions after an exam is complete, in order correct errored or confusing questions.

Edit Correct Answers After Exam

Instructors will have the ability to adjust a learner's overall score or score on a particular question after the exam has completed. Instructors can choose to apply bonus or penalty points to add to or subtract from the score.

Edit Learner Scores After Exam

Instructors can add multiple correct answer options when creating a fill in the blank question. As long as the learner enters or selects one of the correct options, they will receive credit.

Multiple Correct Answers for Fill in the Blank Questions

Instructors will have an option to disable backwards navigation during any exam, preventing learners from going back to previous questions and reviewing or changing their responses. Backwards navigation will continue to be disabled for any exam that includes timed questions.

Prevent Backward Navigation During Exams

Browser lock functionality will be expanded by integrating with Respondus. Full support on MacOS and Windows devices, as well as advanced settings for allowed URLs and applications during a browser lock exam.

Integrate with Respondus

Instructors want to quickly see their at risk learners so that they can provide additional help and intervention as needed.

At Risk learners based on an exam score - shown in the Exam Summary Report

Flag At Risk Learners for Instructors

Exam Passwords

The Institution can now choose to use either a 12 or 24 hour format for inputting times across EchoVideo.

24 Hour Clock

Instructors have the option to select specific metadata tags to measure learner performance in an exam. For each selected metadata tag, instructors will see the learner and roster performance across all questions associated with the metadata tag.

Performance by Metadata in Exam Report

Our LTI 1.3 integrations now support Automatic Gradebook Sync. Allowing you to configure and customize and schedule the content and metrics you want to sync to the LMS gradebook.

LTI 1.3: Automatic Gradebook Sync

Automatically de-provision users in Inkling from Azure AD via SCIM API.

Inkling-Azure AD Integration

Browser lock from Respondus will be expanded to include full support for iPadOS and Chromebook devices.

Chromebook and iPad support for Browser Lock

Authors can view an Inkdoc's published version history and export historical versions as a PDF or SCORM file. 

Published Inkdoc Version History

Learners will be able to filter search results to their Favorite and Recently Viewed Inkdocs, as well as specific Collections.

Search Filters

Managers can set due dates for courses assigned to learners in the field.

Set due dates for field manager assignments

When updating courses, authors can choose to re-assign the new course version to all learners who haven't yet completed the assignment.

Course Re-assignment

We will be upgrading the backend that powers SCORM Steps in courses to ensure greater reliability across supported learning packages.

SCORM Engine Upgrade

Learners will be able to search and sort courses and curriculum by title, time duration, progress, and status. Field Managers will be able to assign curriculum to learners and receive notifications when learners complete a curriculum.

Curriculum: Phase 2

Authors can create a copy of a course or a curriculum to use as the starting point for a new course or curriculum. This helps save authors time when designing multiple courses that share the same Inkdocs, Activities, Assessments, or other step types.​

Copy Courses & Curriculum

Learners and managers can receive email notifications for new course assignments, course due soon, overdue, and for courses that have been completed.​

Email Notifications

Habitat authors can choose to enable users in the field to print individual pages, chapters, or entire documents.

Print Chapters and Documents

Course authors can organize, assign, and deliver a sequence of courses to their learners as a curriculum. Learners will be able to visualize and track their progress through a curriculum.​

Curriculum: Phase 1

When preparing a test to be printed, instructors will have the ability to choose the style and size of the answer space for essay, short answer, and numeric questions. Instructors can choose between writing style, where the learner has lines to write in their response, or drawing style, where the learner has a blank box to draw or diagram their response. Instructors can also choose between five sizes for the answer area, from extra small to extra large.

Additional print settings for leave answer space

Instructors can choose between All or Nothing Scoring, 0 / 1 Partial scoring, or + / - Partial scoring when creating and editing matching questions in EchoExam.

Partial Credit for Matching Questions

EchoSystem Product Roadmap

Roadmap

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