Copy an Echo

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Last updated: Aug 11, 2015Version comment
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Overview

When you copy an Echo, you copy it from one section (the "source section") to another (the "destination section"). You might want to do this for many reasons.

For example, you might teach both a basic Linguistics course (Linguistics 101) and a more advanced course in phonology (Linguistics 121). You are about to present an advanced topic to the phonology class, but you want to make sure that your students have absorbed some principles that you presented in Linguistics 101. Follow these steps to copy the Echo.

  1. Copy the Echo from Linguistics 101 to Linguistics 121. This gives students access to the Linguistics 101 Echo.
  2. Best practice: Edit the title and description of the copied Echo in the destination section.
    • You do this because the listing on the EchoCenter page does not look the way you might expect.
    • Because the Echo was captured for the Linguistics 101 class, the title is Linguistics 101.
    • Students may be confused when they see an Echo titled Linguistics 101 on the EchoCenter page for Linguistics 121.
    • You can explain this to your students or you can edit the title and description instead.
    • See Improve Learning - Add Descriptions for Each Echo.
  3. Suggest to students that they review the Linguistics 101 Echo.

Why Do I Have to Copy the Echo?

You must copy the Echo because students can view only Echoes associated with their courses. You teach both courses and can view both sets of Echoes. Linguistics 101 students can view only Echoes associated with Linguistics 101. Linguistics 121 students can view only Echoes associated with Linguistics 121.

Discussions, chat, and bookmarks associated with the original Echo are not copied to the new Echo.

Procedure

A copied Echo is initially marked as Unavailable. This procedure shows how to copy an Echo and make the new Echo available.

Alternate Option: Use EchoCenter to Make Copied Echo Available

The procedure uses the ESS method for making the copied Echo available through the ESS. We assume that you want to make the Echo available as soon as it is copied. However, you can also make the Echo available through the EchoCenter.

Follow these steps.

  1. Log in to the EchoSystem Server (ESS) as an Instructor.
  2. Navigate to Echoes > Echoes.
  3. Find the Echo you want to copy ("the source Echo"), as shown below. All Echoes for the section have the same title but the dates are different.

    select the echo you want to copy

  4. Hover over the Echo and click copy.
  5. Specify the destination term, course, and section. Click Copy.

    click copy

  6. Review the Echo Details page for the new Echo.
    1. Notice the success message at the top of the page.
    2. Notice that the new Echo is marked as Unavailable.
    3. Click Done.

      new echo is initially unavailable

  7. Make the new Echo available.
    1. In the Echoes list, click the Unavailable tab. Find the new Echo.
    2. If the list has more than one Echo, check the one you want to make available.
    3. In the drop-down list, select Make available.

      make the echo available

    4. Click the Available tab.
    5. Notice that the Echo is now available. It still has the title of the source section ("Intro to Linguistics" in this example) but is now associated with the destination section ("Ling 121-Phonology T,Th,Sat" in this example).

  8. After some time, the Echo also appears on the EchoCenter page.  It is easy to recognize because, although most Echoes have the title of the destination section ("Phonology" in this example), the copied Echo has the title of the source section ("Intro to Linguistics" in this example).

  9. Optional: Edit the title and description of the Echo. See Improve Learning - Add Descriptions for Each Echo.