Submitting an Assignment with Canvas Studio
Greetings WPI Students, Your Professor may assign a video as an assignment. Here are the steps that you take to submit it using Canvas Studio, a content management and creation tool embedded in Canvas....
View ArticleAd-hoc Capture in Echo360 Classrooms
Greetings, WPI Lecture Capturers! Have you ever been in a classroom and wanted to start and stop a lecture capture by yourself? Here are directions. First, locate the desktop shortcut to Echo360 Class...
View ArticleFlipping Video with OBS
OBS – short for Open Broadcaster System – is an open source software for video streaming and recording. Downloads for OBS are available at obsproject.com. OBS is free and works well on Windows, macOS...
View ArticleHow Transcripts and Captions Work in Echo360
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination in the places of public accommodation – such as schools – and failing to transcribe or provide closed captions for your educational videos...
View ArticleEcho360-Zoom Connection
The Echo360 – Zoom Connection For Echo360 users, or those who might become Echo360 users, here’s good news: your Zoom cloud recordings can be ingested by Echo360 and placed in your personal libraries...
View ArticleAdding Pronouns to Zoom
It’s the last day of Pride Month, and so I’d be remiss to leave out a great new feature that Zoom added earlier this month–adding your pronouns to your Zoom profile! The first thing you’ll need to do...
View ArticleECE Professor Boosts Engagement with Creative Videos
Maqsood Mughal’s expertise with Open Broadcaster Suite (OBS), an open source software for creating and streaming videos, has been well-earned. After first hearing about the software during a KEEN (Kern...
View ArticleProduction Tools: Recording Your Lectures
Did you know that WPI has three tools that can be utilized for recording videos? Those tools are Echo360, Zoom, and Studio. Like a choose-your-own-adventure, you may be wondering where to start....
View ArticleEcho360 Media Editor – New Insert Function
Here’s the cut: Echo360 has insert editing. For those of us who don’t have a background in video editing, let me lay down some tracks for you. You can think of a video as a linear event that holds you...
View ArticleIntroducing Perusall
The perennial quest for engagement may have a boost with Perusall, a social annotation platform that can be incorporated into your Canvas course sites as an external tool. Built by a team of academics...
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