Improve Learning - Add Descriptions for Each Echo
- Hannah Petty
In this section:
Why Add Descriptions?
You can help students get the most out of each Echo by adding a short description for each one. Descriptions appear in the Information tab of the student's EchoCenter page.
Adding a description helps you and your students navigate to the correct Echo. Say, for example, that a student wants to review your discussion on phonemes. Launching and listening to every Echo in the course would be a daunting task. If you add a description, the student can quickly find the Echo titled "Phonology". This is likely to be the correct Echo.
Echo Descriptions Are Different From Section Descriptions
This procedure shows how to add a description for a specific Echo. Your System Administrator may have added a description for your particular section ("This introductory course covers..."). If you do not add a custom description for the Echo, the section description appears for the Echo.
You can also change the title of an Echo. The title, like the description, comes from the particular section. If you do change an Echo's title, be sure it still identifies the section in a way that students will recognize.
Best Practice: Add a Description for Every Echo
If you add a description for one Echo, add a description for every Echo. If you do not, students see a specific description for some Echoes ("Phonology") but the section description ("This introductory course covers...") for others.
This task can be delegated to a Teaching Assistant.
Procedure - Edit the Description and/or Title for a Specific Echo
- Navigate to the EchoCenter page for the section.
- Find the Echo you want to customize with a description or new title. All Echoes for the section have the same title, the title of the section, unless they have been manually changed.
- Click the Information tab to show the Echo's information. Notice the small "pencil" icons located to the left of the title and description, as indicated in the figure below.
- To edit the Description, click the pencil icon next to the description.
- Change the text in the Description text box, then click the check mark below the text box, as shown in the below figure, to save your changes. To cancel your changes, click the X.
- To edit the Title of the Echo, click the pencil icon next to the title.
- Change the text in the Title text box, then click the check mark below the text box, as shown in the below figure, to save your changes. To cancel your changes, click the X.
The changes you make take place in real-time. If you make changes to the title or description, students will see those changes immediately.