Edit Echoes for Academic Staff

Overview

You can edit either an Echo (a captured lecture) or additional materials (imported media). For both types of files you can:

• Remove a segment from the middle. You might want to remove:
  
  

  • Some student remarks

  • An exam review

• Remove either the beginning or end sections ("trimming top 'n tail"). You may want to do this to remove unnecessary material.

If the Echo contains:

• Both audio-video and display (such as a PowerPoint file), you can edit either the video, the display, or both

• Only audio-video, you can edit the video only

To edit a file, do the following:

1. Open the file to be edited.

2. Select the content to be edited. You do this only for files that contain both VGA and video.

3. Specify the edits to be made.

4. Commit edits, if applicable.

5. After editing the file, you can do the following:
   
   

   • Save the file. This command commits your edits but does not publish the file to students.

   • Save and process the file. This command commits your edits and makes the file available to students.

   • Save a copy to a different course or section.

Open the File

1. Log in to the EchoSystem using your Academic Staff user name and password.

2. Navigate to Echoes > Echoes.

3. Click the relevant tab. Clicking the All tab ensures that your file appears in the list.

4. In the file list, hover over the relevant file until the buttons appear, as shown in the figure below.

5. Select edit.
   

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6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Edit Media, as shown in the figure below.
   

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7. Wait while the Echo360 Presentation Editor loads.
   

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8. Notice that the Editor is open in a new active window, but the Edit Echo page is still open in another window, as shown in the figure below.
   

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Select the Content to be Edited

In the Content Pane, click one of the thumbnails in the lower right corner to display either the video or the display content, such as a PowerPoint file. In the figure below, video is displayed.

Specify Edits

Specify a Segment to Remove

You can use either the playhead and buttons or the left and right markers to mark the beginning and end points of the segment to be cut.

To use the playhead and buttons:

1. Position the playhead at the start of the cut.

2. Click the Start Cut button (left triangle). This marks the start cut point.
   

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3. Position the playhead at the end of the cut.

4. Click the End Cut button (right triangle). This marks the end cut point.

5. Click the scissors (Cut) button.

To use the markers:

1. Drag the left marker in to the start of the cut.

2. Drag the right marker in to the end of the segment.

3. Click the scissors (Cut) button.
   

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4. Notice that the cut areas appear gray on the timeline, as shown in the figure below.
   

5. Commit the edits. See Commit Edits.

Specify that the Beginning or End of the File be Removed

1. Drag the left slider in to remove the beginning of the file.

2. Drag the right slider in to remove the end of the file.

3. Notice that the edits are shown in the Cuts Pane, as shown in the figure below.
   

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4. At this point, you can either preview the edited file or save it.

Edit Cuts Using the Cuts Pane

1. Select the relevant row in the Cuts Pane.

2. Click edit.

3. Change the values for Start Cut or End Cut, as shown in the figure below.