Viewing Your Student Dashboard

After logging into Echo360, your Dashboard (Home Page) appears, showing all courses in which you are enrolled, along with previously completed courses.

1. Courses are sorted by term start date. Use the Filters, located in the top right corner, to select a different term (or All Terms) to view.

2. By default courses from all terms are displayed. Using filters you can select term Active or Inactive terms to view courses only for selected term, click apply to apply the filter.

Viewing Classes and Presentations

Students can view classes in two ways. You can access classroom material after the class has been captured and posted to the class list, or you can view live classes. 

Viewing a class after it has been captured and uploaded

Classes are grouped by courses. To view a list of all classes for a particular course, you can:

1. Find the Course on your Dashboard (Home Page) and click to view all classes.

2. Use the class list to find the class you want to watch and to see what materials your instructor may have posted for upcoming classes.

Note: To increase the amount of screen space available for classroom materials, the playback bar auto-hides. It should appear when you first enter the classroom then disappear after a few seconds. To reveal the bar again, hover your mouse over the bottom of the classroom window. See Using Classroom Tools for more information on the functionality located in the playback bar.
It is important to note however that if the classroom only has a presentation, you will not see a playback bar, as the controls will not apply.

3. If necessary, use the Search box to find the class you want to view. Click on the class row to enter the Classroom view.

4. The classroom viewer opens. Alternatively, if you click on the content icon  for the class and select View from the menu that appears, the classroom view opens with that content item maximized. This allows you to find a particular item to view or view again within the classroom.

5. Use the playbar at the bottom to pause, play, rewind 10 seconds, or scrub through the video as needed. Use the volume control and playback speed buttons to control those aspects of your viewing. 

• Use the layout button to change how the items are arranged on the screen, if the classroom contains multiple visual feeds (e.g., the classroom recording captured dual video or video and display, and there is a presentation loaded to the class). 
• Use the classroom toolbar across the top to navigate between classes, enter or respond to questions, and take notes during the classroom viewing. 
• You can also access the most recent classes from your Dashboard (Home Page).

Tip: See Using Classroom Tools and Downloading Content to learn more about classroon toolbar.

Viewing Live Classes 

Some institutions may configure classes to be viewed in real-time, while they are happening. These are called LIVE classes.

Watching classes live is very similar to watching recorded classes except that you can't control the playback (fast forward, rewind, pause).

Note: If viewing the Live stream on a mobile device: When Echo360 detects you are viewing a live stream from a mobile device, it automatically buffers 40 seconds of the stream to ensure smooth playback. This means you may experience a delay in the start of the stream, and that your view will lag anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute behind the real-time action. Also note that viewing Live streams is not supported on Android devices. See Echo360ALP app for more information. 

• To access a live class, navigate to the Class List page and scroll to the current date.
• The live class appears with a LIVE badge next to the class name. If the class is happening now, the LIVE badge is green and there is a green dot to the left of the class name, as shown in the below figure. 
• Click the class row to enter the classroom.
• Since Live streams will not autoplay, click Show Live Stream to see the stream. You can hide the stream at any time if necessary.
• The classroom toolbar appears across the top of the screen, allowing you navigate out of the classroom, open the Notes panel, or open/close the Questions panel.