Import Other Media for Academic Staff

Overview

Although you probably use the EchoSystem primarily to record class lectures, you might also want to use it to preserve and distribute other materials.

If you are an Academic Staff member, as the Instructor for a section you might want to:

• Upload a video that students should view before discussing it at a class meeting

• Upload materials that expand on a particular lecture

• Upload materials not linked to any specific section, but share them with students

If you are a System Administrator, you might be asked to:

• Distribute a guest lecture given at the university by a distinguished alumnae

• Distribute an address given by the university president to colleagues

You can upload any of these materials to the EchoSystem then edit and manage them as you would an Echo.

EchoSystem calls these materials "other media" because they are not captured by the EchoSystem. Instead, you upload them yourself. The process of uploading an external file is called "media import".

You can:

• Upload multiple files to a specific section, though you must upload them one at a time.

• Upload files that are not associated with any class or any meeting

• Upload as many files as you like, though your System Administrator may limit the total amount of media you can upload to a section

• Edit files with the standard Echo editing tools

Tools and Formats Supported

Echo360 supports the file types listed below. These have been tested. 

Echo360 will add support for additional tools and formats. If you use a format not listed here, you can attempt to ingest it. Other formats may work although they have not been tested.

If the format you use fails to process correctly, especially in the case of video files, it is likely that the video file format is not fully compatible with our encoding software. We suggest you attempt to re-encode the video into one of the supported formats (listed below) via a 3rd party video encoding software, and then use that as the source file for another media import attempt. Alternately you can enter a support request to suggest we add support for the format you are using.

Audio and Video / Audio and Screen

The following table lists the currently tested and supported combination audio and video file types.

Audio Only

The following table lists the currently tested and supported audio only file types.