Notify Students

In this section:

Overview

After an event of any kind (scheduled, ad hoc, or live) has been captured and processed, you, the System Administrator, must arrange for students to be notified of the new recording. You can do this via email, EchoCenter publishing, or publishing to an LMS. This is still true if the event is a special event such as a graduation or speech, and the people to be notified are alumni or other interested parties, not just students.

You do this in different ways, as shown in the procedure below.

Best Practice: Create an EchoCenter Page

Both Echoes and live webcasts are automatically posted to an EchoCenter page. If you use email publishing or a publisher that does not support an EchoCenter integration, you will have to take extra steps (explained in the procedure below) to notify students of live webcasts.

To avoid those extra steps, create an EchoCenter page for any special event that includes a live webcast or any section that might include a live webcast.

Procedure

If you use...	Then
Email Publishing	If the recording is a regularly scheduled Echo, students automatically receive an email with a link to it. If the recording is a special event Echo, you have two options. Both assume that you have created a section for the special event. Find the recording on the Echo Details page (Echoes > Echoes). Copy the URL into an email you send. Add the Email Publisher to the section. In this case, you will have to create an email alias or distribution list because you can only specify one recipient per publisher. If the recording is a live webcast, notify students via an email you send: Navigate to the schedule for the event (Schedule > Schedules). Click on the link for the schedule. In the Course/Description settings group, copy the link from the Next Live Event Link field and send it to students or post it to a website, as appropriate.
The EchoCenter	The link (whether for an Echo or a live webcast) appears on the student's EchoCenter page. See Manage the EchoCenter.
A learning management system (LMS) that has an EchoCenter integration	The link (whether for an Echo or live webcast) appears on the EchoCenter page within the LMS. See Publishing for a list of all publishers. Only some publishers support an EchoCenter integration. If you publish to an LMS that does not have an EchoCenter integration, but would like to offer that seamless integration, contact Echo360 Client Services for information.
An LMS that does not have an EchoCenter integration	If the recording is an Echo, the link appears on the LMS page for the course. If the recording is a live webcast, copy-paste the EchoCenter page URL to the LMS page for the course. See Enable EchoCenter Pages in a Learning Management System . You could also paste the live event URL instead of the EchoCenter URL.