The top menu bar of Echo360 has three page options: Library, Courses, and Groups. Each page contains a Search text field, a Filters option, and a Sort drop-down list. This article describes using all three to find what you're looking for.

The below figure identifies these items on the Library page but they reside in the same location in all of the pages accessed from the top menu.

If you are a Student, you may not have a Library option in the top menu. Some institutions disable the student library.

If you enter Echo360 through an LMS/VLE (i.e., Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, Brightspace, Sakai), you likely land on the Class List of a course most often. And in this case you may not need to navigate using the top menu. In fact, if you are a student, you should ONLY access your courses through the links in your LMS/VLE unless you have been instructed to do otherwise. You may need to use the Library or Groups page though.

If you have multiple roles in Echo360, for example you are a student in some courses and a teaching assistant in others, you may need to change your current role to see different courses in the Courses page. Click your avatar in the top right corner, then select the Change button. Select the role from the drop-down list.

All of your available content appears in your Library page, and all groups you are a member of appear in the Groups page, regardless of your currently active role.

Using the Filters

The Library, Courses, and Groups pages all contain a Filters link. This allows you to set certain criteria for showing the items on the page.

Click the Filters link, located on the right side of the top of the page and identified in the above figure, to filter what is shown on any of the pages. 

To remove a filter, click the Filters link again, select Clear/Clear All and then click Apply.

Library content filter

The Library filter has several options for filtering the content showing in your library. You can filter by content-specific characteristics such as media type, owner, and whether the item is shared/published. You can also filter to find media that is currently published to a course or to any course in a term.

Use multiple filter selections to narrow the content shown to be fairly specific. For example, select Presentation as the content Type and then select a particular Course. This filters the page to show only those Presentations that are currently published (shared) to classes in that course.

1. Click Library from the top menu
2. On the Library page, click Filters from the right side of the top section of the page.
3. In the Filters dialog box, use the Content and Found In drop-down lists to identify the filtering criteria you want. 
   

   For example: To see only media that you own (as opposed to media another user has shared with you), select the Owner drop-down list and select Me. To view only shared media, select Anyone except me from the Owner list. 
   

4. Click Apply.

When the page has filters applied, the Filter link changes to show how many different filtering criteria are currently being used to display the media. This is helpful if you cannot find something you know is in your library but isn't being shown. If the Filters link has a number next to it, click it to see what filters are in place at the moment.

Click Clear All and then Apply from the Filters dialog box to remove any filters currently in place.

Use the Filters along with the Search box to narrow the media shown even further.

It is important to note that a "Shared" status refers to both media that you have shared with other individuals as well as media that is published to a course. Meaning if you select Not Shared as a status but then also select a Term or Course, you will not get any results, because those filters are mutually exclusive.

Shared vs owned media

Notice on the Library page that each tile shows the owner of the media along with the title below the thumbnail. If YOUR name appears there, it is media you own. If you have filtered for "Anyone except me" the media tiles will show a name other than yours. Media ownership provides additional functionality that you do not have for media that belongs to someone else. You can view shared media, and sometimes download or copy it, depending on certain settings in the system.

Courses filter

The Courses filter is limited to Term, as shown below. It allows you to show only the Courses/Sections in a particular term.

1. Click Courses from the main menu
2. On the courses page, click Filters from the right side of the top section of the page.
3. In the Filters dialog box, use the Term drop-down list to select which term's courses/sections you want to show in the page.
   
4. Click Apply.

The Courses page appears and now shows only the courses in the selected term.

If you are an instructor and teach multiple sections of a particular course, you will see multiple sections for a single course within a selected term. Not all institutions have multiple sections in a single course/term but some do.

The below figure shows the Courses page, with a filter applied (Term Start). The results are two sections in the same course and term. The displayed tiles show the term and the course name along with the section name (which are different than the course name because there are more than one in the course).

Groups filter

The Groups filter is limited to Owner, as shown below. It allows you to filter the groups page based on who is an owner in the group.

This is helpful for seeing the groups YOU manage but also for finding owners of groups in which you are a member. This would direct you to the person you may need to ask to have your privileges changed, or have media or other users added/removed from the group if necessary (if you do not have those rights).

1. Click Groups from the main menu
2. On the groups page, click Filters from the right side of the top section of the page.
3. In the Filters dialog box, use the Owner drop-down list to select which groups you want to show in the page. Anyone is selected by default.
   
   
   

   The list is limited to ONLY users who are owners in groups in which you are a member.

4. Select yourself from the list to show only those groups where you have full management (ownership) rights.
5. Select a different user to see the groups where they have ownership rights.
6. Click Apply.

Using the Search Box

The Library, Courses, and Groups pages all contain a Search box at the top. The Search Content box on the Library page is shown below, but the same search text box appears on all of the pages.

Enter search text to match text in the Name of what you are searching for in order to find matches. This includes the name of a Group, Title of the media, or name of a Course or Section.

The page contents are filtered as you type. Meaning that the more characters are typed into the box, the fewer matching items should appear on the page.

You can use the Search text in conjunction with the Filters. Filter the items on the page first, then use the Search box to find what you are looking for within the filtered results. 

Sorting

The Library, Courses, and Groups pages all have a Sorting option, to put the items on the page into the order you prefer. The sort options available logically depend on which page's items you are sorting.

Sorting library content

By default, the content in your library is sorted by date created, with the newest media shown first (descending order, arrow points down).

Click the Sort by drop-down list to sort the media list by a different attribute including Name, Date Created, Owner, Type, or Course Name (to which it has been shared). 

Click the arrow to the right of the Sort by drop-down to change the sort from ascending to descending or vice-versa.

If you sort the media by Course Name (where it is published), media that is not currently published appears first if in Ascending order (arrow points UP), and last if in Descending order (arrow points down). 

Sorting courses

By default, the Courses in the current (or most recent) term are shown first, in alphabetical order by course name (then section name if applicable).

Click the Sort by drop-down to sort the Courses list by Course Code, Course Name, Name (section name), Term (term name), or Term Start date.

Click the arrow to the right of the drop-down to change the sort from ascending to descending, or vice-versa.

Sorting groups

By default, your Groups appear in alphabetical order by group name. 

Click the Sort by drop-down to sort the Groups list by Name or Date Created.

Click the arrow to the right of the drop-down to change the sort from ascending to descending, or vice-versa.