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

Digital Accessibility Reporting API Enhancements

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

Branding Updates

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

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

Advanced reporting for administrators. New reports provide filterable summaries of all activity across an organization demonstrating how the EchoPoll tools are being used. Admins can analyze and improve how their organization applies EchoPoll.

Institution Wide Reporting

Create and start any live class or self-paced assignment without needing a course. Manage all classes assignment records in a consolidated results tab with visibility depending on role: instructor or admin. View performance and activity KPIs quickly and compare change over time. 

Decoupling Course Dependency

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

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"

Any learner accessing their EchoPoll account will be greeted by My Dashboard – a centralized hub for all their important items. From here, they can quickly join an ongoing session using the provided join code, check out upcoming Live Sessions scheduled by their instructor, and view all the Assignments with fast-approaching due dates. Learners can keep an eye on any enrolled courses, with the ones having upcoming sessions or assignments automatically being displayed at the top of the list.

Learner Dashboard

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

When instructors are working in the Test Editor, Question Editor, or Narrative Editor, they will be alerted when an item is not fully supported in all modes. Narratives include an alert that they may be limited on mobile, due to the smaller screen size, and an appropriate screen size is suggested. Questions and narratives that include an external hyperlink will display an alert that they are not compatible with browser lock secure exams, since learners will not be able to access additional browser tabs.

Instructor Alerts

Any instructor accessing EchoPoll will see My Dashboard. Instructors can quickly create a new Poll Deck, or use a recent Poll Deck to deliver a session or assignment on-the-fly. Instructors can also see a summary of their Sessions and Assignments that are ready to be scheduled, will be available for learners soon, or are already in progress for them. If the instructor is using courses to deliver content, they will see a quick view of the courses they are an instructor on, with any that have upcoming sessions or assignments showing at the top of the list.

Instructor Dashboard

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

Choose between a QR code or alpha-numeric code to take attendance quickly during a session. Attendance QR codes are displayed during the live session, prompting learners to scan with their device and complete the check-in. Attendance alpha-numeric codes ensure that learners are actively engaged by prompting them to check in and enter the code provided by their instructor.

Attendance by Code

See a new layout and Poll Deck Editor experience. View your content and question slides in a consistent, presentation-style view. The new Poll Deck editor includes an improved workflow for importing PowerPoint presentations, as well as better visibility into slide options and settings.

Improved Poll Deck Editor

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

Instructors will see expanded options for Poll Questions when creating a new slide. Settings include response limits for multiple response questions, speed scoring, advanced scoring options, additional chart options, and more!

Additional Settings for Poll Questions

We're updating all of our tables and reporting throughout the product to give instructors and administrators more flexibility in the application. Adjust any table to fit your needs by choosing which columns are shown or hidden, and what order the columns display in. Filter and sort data to exactly what you need, including advanced filters on any column, the ability to group data and create a hierarchy, options to add summary rows with totals and averages, and more!

Updated Tables and Reporting

Instructors can take attendance during a session to check-in with participants and ensure that they have joined the session and are actively engaged. Schedule an attendance check-in to automatically trigger at a specific time in the session to check-in with learners without interrupting your presentation, or take attendance on-the-fly at any time during a session.

Take Attendance During a Session

With the EchoPoll administrator dashboard, see metrics and reports across your entire organization. Easily get the information you need, right at your fingertips.

Admin Dashboard

A new look and feel for the login page, including the ability to join multiple organizations. Our updated login page offers a smoother user experience and consistency with our Echosystem.

Updated Login Experience

In addition to report summaries, instructors will be able to download detailed reports for in progress and completed Assignments, and for completed Sessions. The .csv report will be able to be downloaded from the Reports table or while viewing the details, and will include the score for each participant, whether they responded to unscored questions, and whether they answered correctly or incorrectly for scored questions.

Participant detailed reports of scores and courses will also be able to be downloaded directly from the Reports table, without needing to view the individual participant summaries.

Download Detailed Reports

Easily locate the resources you need to create your Poll Deck. Utilize the filtering option in My Library to display all resources or just a particular file type.

Filter by Resource Type

Administrators can view and manage all content and records across their organization, whether the record (course, class, assignment, and all content) has been shared or not. 

Admin Permissions

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

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

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

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

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

Allow your learners to respond remotely during a live session without the need for an internet connection. SMS / text message responses allow your learners to send their answers to a phone number that's unique to your session. SMS responses are supported for responses to questions and attendance check-ins.

SMS / Text Message Responses for Live Sessions

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

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

With our H5P integration media creators that already using H5P can continue to use EchoVideo for storing their media, be able to generate an H5P-compatible link for it, and safely use it on H5P (for use in Interactive Video, Hotspots, Interactive Books, etc.)

H5P Integration

 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

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

Add captioning to your live streams using one of your configured integrations.

Live captioning

With this round of LTI 1.3 support, we will be adding the ability to link your LMS course to a Folder and enable Automatic Gradebook sync.

More LTI 1.3 Support

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

Sync users and content from Google Workspace into EchoVideo!

Google Workspace Integration

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

Audio normalization

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

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

QuadraVision - Open Beta

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

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

Virtual Backgrounds

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

Hotspot questions require a learner to respond to a question by selecting a point on an image. The question is scored based on whether the learner selected a point that was within an area set up by the instructor.

Hotspot Questions

Narratives allow instructors to associate one or more questions with a common block of information. Narratives can include a passage of text, one or more images, tables, or multiple tabs separating different information. Narratives will be presented to the learner along with the related question(s) when taking an exam.

Narratives

Highlight questions require a learner to highlight one or more selections from a passage of text in order to answer a question. Instructors can configure up to 10 highlighted sections, including distractors.

Highlight Questions

Learners must respond to a question by selecting one or more items from multiple categories. Part of the NCLEX Next Gen, learners are presented with up to 5 categories, each containing a set of items to choose from. Learners are scored based on the correct and incorrect selected items in each category.

Grouped Multiple Response Questions

Matching questions require learners to relate one or more items with an option from a list. Instructors can configure any number of items that relate to a common list of options.

Matching Questions

Bowtie questions require a learner to drag-and-drop a correct response into a bowtie chart. Part of the NCLEX Next Gen, bowtie questions include a central chart option for the patient's condition, along with two options for actions to take and for parameters to monitor.

Bowtie Questions

Instructors can configure additional information that can be made available to learners during or after an exam. Feedback provides additional information based on the learners selected answer to a question. Rationale provides an explanation to the learner about the correct answer.

Feedback & Rationale

Dynamic content allows instructors to quickly swap out values in a question to create multiple versions. With dynamic content, one question easily becomes multiple questions. Instructors can create different test versions to prevent cheating, or create different versions to reuse their test content across multiple groups of learners.

Dynamic Question Content

Learners must respond to a question by selecting one or more options for each row in a table, based on 2 or more columns of options. Part of the NCLEX Next Gen, learners will receive points for each row, based on the number of correct and incorrect selections in each row.

Multiple Response Matrix Questions

Learners must respond to a question by taking a distinct set of pre-defined item and rearranging them into the correct order. Learners are scored based on each response that is in the correct position.

Ordered Response Questions

Part of the NCLEX Next Gen, dropdown table questions require a learner to fill in a table by selecting an option from a dropdown for each field. Learners are scored based on each field they answered correctly.

Dropdown Table Questions

Learners must respond to a question by selecting one option for each row in a table, based on 2 or more columns with options. Part of the NCLEX Next Gen, learners will receive points for each row, based on whether they select the correct option.

Multiple Choice Matrix Questions

Lock one or more answer options so they are always in the same position, even if answer options are scrambled. Instructors can create questions using options like, "all of the above," while still enabling scrambled options to prevent cheating.

Lock Answer Option

Instructors can report on their question library to ensure they have balanced content across learning objectives, difficulty level, topic, and more.

Question Pivot Reporting

Our in-application notification system is here! Notifications provide real-time alerts about actions taken within EchoVideo, with more alerts and notifications to come.

Introducing Content Notifications

We are building an integration with WebEx to allow for transferring WebEx recordings to EchoVideo automatically.

WebEx Integration: Phase 1

We are building an integration option for your LMS that supports the latest 1.3 release of IMS Global's LTI Core Specification.

LTI 1.3 Support: Phase 1

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

Administrator Bulk Actions for Users

Admins now have a way to set global or individuated policies around content archiving, deletion, and content visibility within their institutions, as well as flag some content as an exception, to be ignored by rules set by content policies.

Content Retention Policies

EchoSystem Product Roadmap

Roadmap

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