The Echo360 Home page makes it simple to find what you need. The Home page provides access to courses and sections as well as to the media you have access to outside of a course. (For directions on how to find stuff within a course, see Searching Across a Course.)
Use the Search field and/or Filters to narrow the list of items on the page. They can be used separately or in combination. You can Filter to get a subset of items (such as in a particular Term), then enter Search text to search just the filtered subset. Or you can filter for a set of items, then sort them as needed to find exactly what you're looking for.
How do I get to the Echo Home page?
Click the Echo logo in the top left corner of whatever page you are on, identified in the below figure. The Echo Home page appears, with the Courses tab active by default.
Use the tabs on the left to pick the type of thing you're looking for: Courses or Content (videos or presentations).
Finding Your Courses
The Courses tab lists the courses/sections you are enrolled in. The Sort, Search, and Filter options discussed below will help you find the course or section you want.
HELP! My Courses aren't showing up!! The courses/sections shown on the Courses tab are those you are enrolled in as the role you have currently logged in as. If you have multiple roles in Echo360 (instructor in some courses, student in others, or teaching assistant) you must change roles to see the other, relevant courses. Click your avatar in the top right corner of the screen (left of the university logo). This shows what role you are currently logged in as. Click Change to select a different Role from the drop-down list.
Sorting Courses
By default, the Courses in the current (or most recent) term are shown first, in alphabetical order by course name.
Click the Sort by drop-down to sort the Courses list by Name, Course Code, Course Name, Term name, or Term Start date.
Click the arrow to the right of the drop-down to change the sort from ascending to descending.
Click the Arrow to reverse the sort order (ascending to descending or back)
Searching Courses
Enter text into the search field. Echo360 tries to match the entered text to the Course Number, Course Name, Section Name, or Term Name.
As you type, the courses shown on the page change to match the changing search text.
To clear the search, simply delete the text in the Search field.
If you are an instructor, you may teach multiple sections of a course. To find those sections, you can enter some or all of the Course name or number into the Search field. All sections in that course appear in the results, as shown in the below figure.
Filtering Courses by Term
You can also use the Filter to narrow the search list by Term.
Click Filters located to the right of the search box, then select a Term from the dropdown list.
Click Apply. The Courses page contents change to show only sections in the selected term.
When finished, click Filters again, and click Clear to remove the Term filter from the Courses page.
Finding Your Content
The All Content tab lists all of the videos and presentations you can access outside of a classroom. This may be content you own, which also appears in the My Content tab. Or it may be content that another user has Shared with you, which also appears in the Shared With Me tab. The Sort, Search, and Filter instructions below apply to any of the Content tabs, but the examples given use All Content.
The Sort by options, Text Search, and Filter options at the top will help you find the media you want.
Sorting Content
Click the Sort by drop-down to sort the Content list by Name, Date Created, Owner, Type, or Course Name (to which it has been shared).
Click the arrow to the right of the drop-down to change the sort from ascending to descending or vice-versa.
Filter Content
Click the Filters option to filter the Content by the criteria you select.
Your options include Type of media (video or presentation), Owner, Status (shared [published] or not shared), Term (of the courses/sections where items are shared), and Course (to which items are shared). NOTE that selecting a Term or Course and also selecting Not Shared as a status will return NO results.
Use the Search field by entering text into the text box. Echo360 tries to match the entered text to the Title of the item. As you type, the results shown on the page change to match the changing search text.
To clear the search, simply delete the text in the Search field.
If you are an instructor who is also the owner of the captures generated for one or more of your sections, the title of captures in your library may also correspond to the name of the section and/or the classes those captures are published to. This can be useful for searching for media belonging to a particular section or set of classes. This type of search is shown in the above figure.
Search Content
Enter text into the search field. Echo360 tries to match the entered text to the Title of the item. As you type, the results shown on the page change to match the changing search text.
To clear the search, simply delete the text in the Search field.
If you are an instructor who is also the owner of the captures generated for one or more of your sections, the title of captures in your library may also correspond to the name of the section and/or the classes those captures are published to. This can be useful for searching for media belonging to a particular section or set of classes. This type of search is shown in the below figure.
Notice that the owner of the media is also shown along with the title, a thumbnail of the item, the length (or the number of slides), and when it was added to your content. If YOUR name appears there, it is media you own. Media ownership provides some additional functionality that you do not have for media that belongs to someone else.
If someone else's name appears, it is media that has been shared with you, and also appears in the Shared With Me tab. You can view shared media, and sometimes download or copy it, depending on certain settings in the system.
