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Comprehensive Tool for Lecture Capture and Engagement
What do you like best about the product?
I like Echo360's ability to bring multiple essential functions, like lecture capture, captioning, accessibility features, content delivery, student engagement, and basic assessment, into a single platform. This all-in-one approach simplifies the experience for both instructors and students, reducing the need to juggle multiple tools. Echo360's integration of lecture capture, captioning, and student engagement tools into a single platform is especially valuable from both a support and instructional standpoint. For instructors, it lowers the barrier of entry because once they learn the system, they can access multiple features without needing to adopt and manage separate tools. This streamlines course design and delivery. From my perspective as an administrator, this integration also simplifies training and support, allowing me to focus on helping instructors maximize one platform. Additionally, Echo360's outstanding support during the initial setup and rollout, including on-campus training and ongoing workshops, has been invaluable. Their support has consistently helped me solve any issues I couldn't figure out on my own. I also appreciate the gradebook integration between Echo360 and Brightspace D2L, which is a very nice feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Echo360 offers a strong set of features, there are areas that could be improved, particularly from an administrative and reporting viewpoint. One of the main challenges is the lack of a comprehensive dashboard that allows administrators to easily monitor contract usage. Maybe even introduce a new 'Super Administrator' role to the platform so only designated administrators have access to contract usage and reporting numbers. Having this information more clearly visible would enable us to make more informed decisions and use our resources more efficiently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Echo360 solves course delivery challenges by providing integrated lecture capture, interactive features for student engagement, and accessibility tools within a single platform. It simplifies course design and delivery, making it easier for instructors to incorporate video and assessments without juggling multiple tools.
Efficient, easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
I'm using Echo 360in almost all training sessions. It allows me to keep the audience engaged, check their emotional response, verify the acquisition of knowledge and stimulate their problem-solving skills. It is easy to use (especially with the AI question-generator), completely and smoothly inegrated into the presentation, very intuitive to use and apply. Ask the audience to scan a QR code on the screen or monitor and your'e in business, live or online. Other features allow me to create groups for competitions, contests, etc. Reporting is simple, detailed and easy to analyze. Pefect for synchronous and asynchronous training.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing essential, but I'd like to keep animations created on PPT. I mjst say that ECHO 360 team has been very attentive and responsive to my suggestions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main benefit is the audience engagment. Validating the aquisistion of essential point is done quickly and efficiently. Echo 360 frees up time otherwise spent in proigramming and design to think about the quality of interactions and how they improve the training's efficiency.
Interactive Visual Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Embedded Polls, Unlimited space, and Ease of use
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow response time from support and technical glitches with new features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Student engagement! Instructors can test their students' knowledge, and students can actively participate while watching lectures.
Integration and Simplicity
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it is integrated into PowerPoint for seamless polling through a software application I'm using everyday anyway. Once students have done there part the usage is very stable. I also like that I can upload quizzes right after class in about 2 minutes. One unexpected advantage of daily quizzes has been the ability to see who is struggling and have a pattern of performance (attendance, scores, etc.) when engaging in correction or intervention. I use a few of the advanced features at times, but even just sticking with the basics has become a strength of the class. The energy rises when the bar graph shows 50/50 on a true/false. Sometimes I reveal a winner, sometimes I will quickly repoll and say "convince someone your right!" and more often than not the correct answer comes in at a higher percentage.
Customer support has generally been strong over my time using the program. New student videos for how to register have come in timely manner. In addition, I've literally sent problem session files and had experts help me out. I've used it for many years and have never felt like I've been left without a solution.
Customer support has generally been strong over my time using the program. New student videos for how to register have come in timely manner. In addition, I've literally sent problem session files and had experts help me out. I've used it for many years and have never felt like I've been left without a solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm sure everyone has there wish list of additional features. My current top three are to be able to set a session value instead of just a question value so I could consistently say that each daily quiz is 15 points. Currently it depends on how many questions I ask or I need to manually adjust each question. Secondly, I wish it could scatterplot but that may be a PowerPoint limitation. Finally, I wish it would tell me who is answering in the room vs. remote. I do want sick students to stay home, but I'd like to be able to see any patters of concern.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I teach dense material (research methods) in a large enrollment setting (N=120) to students who don't think they'll need it. I needed frequent perception checks, assessments and incentives for attendance. Echo does all of these. Some questions are sources of humor as well as assessing comprehension. Others focus on being hard because the particular content is hard, but the quiz reveals a "difference that makes a difference." I also often allow collaboration which fosters community in a large class.
Point Solutions for the Flipped Classroom
What do you like best about the product?
I use PointSolutions for most all my class sessions. The ability to gather student feedback in real time is crucial to ensuring student understanding while fostering active engagement. I love how it integrates with Canvas allowing for quick grading. As someone who uses Peer Instruction for most of my sessions, Anywhere Polling is my product of choice after using many different options.
What do you dislike about the product?
I like that the desktop applications get an upgrade on a regular basis but this does mean that I need to coordinate the update with our tech team for our classroom tech carts. This can occasionally cause an issue if I don't plan ahead.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed a way to privately view student responses in real-time to determine overall understanding of a concept. This allows me to repoll questions without students being swayed by seeing the answers of their peers. This fosters much better discussion time and engagement from students while allowing me to adapt my session time to the most misunderstood concepts.
Excellent academic technology for higher education.
What do you like best about the product?
Reliability of lecture capture and customer service.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, trying to do too much. Less bells and whistles and more core functionality. Primary focus should be lecture capture and polling.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lecture capture and in classroom polling.
Designated, supported lecture capture for my institution
What do you like best about the product?
Echo360 is our chosen solution for lecture capture at our institution. It offers active learning features and analytics that the faculty find extremely helpful for delivery of asynchronous content, and synchronous classes equally use it for polling and review options. From an institutional perspective, Echo offers us an affordable cloud-based solution for video storage, which would otherwise not be feasible in our LMS. Additionally, we have had an excellent experience with support needs, as their support team has consistently addressed needs quickly, including feature requests.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it is beneficial to have more than one integration option for Echo360, some of them can be technically clunky, requiring multiple clicks and back end work, particularly when trying to use video across multiple semesters and having to clone sections. It can prove to be a steep learning curve for many faculty. The B2 to LTI needs have been somewhat slow, also.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Video files tend to be large and are not feasible for direct embed in our LMS. Echo solves this problem with unlimited cloud hosting and direct integration options. It also user authenticates, allowing faculty to collect data on user views and other analytics, particularly when faculty take advantage of the additional features such as polling, confusion flags, and note taking. Echo also offers a solid video production platform to help faculty easily create videos and manage them in the Echo library.
Great for pre-service teachers!
What do you like best about the product?
I love that I can customize the experience to fit the needs of my course and my students. It's such a wonderful way for students give and recieve feedback.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I find the menu a bit hard to navigate. Once I've created a few assignments and get back into it, it's easier, but it could be a bit more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to view students teaching in their placements without having to be present, and I am able to provide real time feedback to these students in order to improve their teaching practices.
Great for Education
What do you like best about the product?
How Clean the formats are, they are easy to use. You don't have to know anything about Inkling to be able use it. User Friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's glitchy but more times it works perfectly fine
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
unsure
Simple WYSIWYG Interface for Knowledge Management
What do you like best about the product?
Habitat offers a simple design tool for creating content if your design team is limited. The interfact for creating documents is intutive and simlpe to keep designers within brand guidelines and contraints for consistent content.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you have a more advanced team of multimedia designers who are accustomed to the full availablity of Adobe Suite, they can be constrained at times by Inkling. The lack of a single content library across InkDocs for images and video can be frustrating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Inkling replaced a paper-only approach to training content for us, so the ability to share video was critical as was the ability to make real-time updates to materials.
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