Echo360 ALP

This section explains Echo360 Active Learning Platform (ALP), VU Collaborate's integrated video content tool

Using Study Guide

This guide covers the following topics, use these links for easier navigation.

 

Reviewing your Study Guide


Each course contains a Study Guide tab where your notes are kept. This allows you to quickly look through all of your classroom notes for each class. 

Study Guide entries are viewed for each class. You can also add General notes for the course that may not apply to a specific class. You can download your notes to a text file, for review outside of the Echo360 interface.

Clicking the bookmark tab echo 360 bookmark  Echo360 bookmark turns it from blue to white/grey. You will also see a popup in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen stating what has been done (this occurs for flagging content, bookmarks and questions).

Clicking on Echo360 Notes ech0360 note icon, will open the notes section on the right-hand side.

 

To view your Study Guide


1. Navigate to the course.

2. Click the Study Guide tab.

 

Study guide tab

 

3. Use the drop-down list on the left to select a class for which to view notes, bookmarks and other material.

 

study guide tab with class list showing

 

4. Use the Left and Right arrows (< and >) to scroll through classes to see which have notes you need to review.

 

study guide tab with navigation arrow highlighted.

 

5. Click on a note or bookmark in the left panel to display the video/presentation assoicted with the note in the right panel.

 

note right-hand panel

 

Editing your Study Guide Notes


Besides viewing your notes, you can edit your notes, edit or remove the timestamp/location tag for each note, and delete a note or bookmark if needed. Only you can see your notes.

To edit your Study Guide notes

1. Navigate to the course.

2. Click the Study Guide tab.

3. Use the class drop-down list or the left and right arrows (< or >) to navigate to the notes you want to edit.

4. Click Edit.

 

study guide tab with edit button highlighted.

 

5. Click on any existing note and select and edit or remove the text.

 

Menu with notes dropdown

 

6. To delete a note, select all of the text for the note and delete it; this deletes the note, including the timestamp.

7. To delete a bookmark, hover over the bookmark and click the X that appears to the right of the bookmark entry.

 

delete bookmark

 

8. Click below the list of notes and begin typing to add a new note.  

NOTE: If an existing note with a timestamp/slide tag is selected at the time you add the new note, it will automatically inherit the same tag, syncing to that location in the class. See the below instructions to edit or delete the tag if this is not applicable to the note.

9. When finished, click Done Editing.

 

To edit the time-stamp/slide number for a note


1. Navigate to your study guide.

2. Use the class drop-down list or the left and right arrows (< or >) to navigate to the notes you want to edit.

3. Click Edit.

4. Hover your mouse over the time-stamp/slide number located to the left of a note to reveal the menu arrow.

5. Click the arrow and select Edit tag from the drop-down menu.

 

Edit tag button highlighted from dropdown menu

 

6. Edit the timestamp or slide number for the note. Use colons between hour, minute, and second digits (h:mm:ss).

7. Alternately, select Delete tag from the menu to remove the timestamp/slide synchronization for the note.

8. When finished, click Done Editing.