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Embedding Echo Videos in Learn Ultra Courses

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This guide will demonstrate how to embed EchoVideo media within a Blackboard Learn Ultra course.

This guide is for Blackboard Learn Ultra

Linking EchoVideo Content as a Standalone Item

These instructions will demonstrate how to create a standalone link to an Echo360 video.

This method only creates a link to the video instead of creating an embedded player.

Accessing Course Tools

Image showing the Add Content menu in Blackboard Learn Ultra
  1. To link content from EchoVideo as a standalone item, hover over the divider between content items and click the plus button where you wish to add the item.
  2. Select Content Market from the menu.

Selecting The Echo360 Embedding Tool

Image showing the Echo350 Media Embed tool selected in the Content Market.

A new screen labeled Content Market will open. Scroll down to the Institutional Tools section and select Echo360 Media Embed (For Ultra Courses Only)

Selecting Video Content

Echo360 Video Library tool with the options of : Choose Existing Content, Create Content, and Upload Content

When selecting the Echo360 Video Library option, you will be presented with a screen with the following options for selecting, creating or uploading content.

  1. Choose Existing Content: Click the Launch Media Picker link to select content you have already added to your EchoVideo library.
  2. Create Content: Use the links in this section to launch Universal Capture or Browser Capture.
  3. Upload Content: Use the Upload Media link to upload new media from your computer for embedding in your course.
Image showing the media selection tool

You can now use the selection tool to select the media object you wish to embed.

  1. Search: Enter search terms in the search bar.
  2. Filter Options: Use the filter options to narrow down your search by Type, Courses, Section, Term, and Date.
  3. Select the video you wish to use from the list on the right.
  4. Click the Next button when you are finished.

Inserting a Video

Image showing how to set up an embedded video
  1. Select size: Use the dropdown menu to select the embedded video size.
  2. Start at: Click here to modify the start time for the video
  3. Autoplay: Select this option to automatically play the video (recommended setting is off)
  4. Automute: Select this option to mute the audio volume by default.
  5. Discussion: Select this option to enable or disable discussions related to the video (This option is on by default)
  6. Link: Select this option to create a link to the video instead of embedding (recommended for student assignment submissions, as the embed feature does not work for assignments).
  7. Click the Embed button to insert the video into the text editor.

Confirmation

Image showing an Echo video link in Blackboard Learn ultra

The video link will then appear at the desired insertion point in Blackboard.

Embedding EchoVideo Content within a Document

These instructions will demonstrate how to embed EchoVideo Content within a document in Learn Ultra

Building Content in Learn Ultra

Image showing the Add Content menu in Blackboard Learn Ultra
  1. To create a course document, hover over the divider between content items and click the plus button where you wish to add the item.
  2. Select Create from the menu.

Selecting Content to Create

Image of the Create Item menu with the Document option highl

You will now see the Create Item side panel open. Select Document from the list of options.

Embedding Echo360 Content in a Document

Image showing the new document screen in Blackboard Learn Ultra

You will now see a screen similar to the one above. Click on Add Content to start building the document

Image showing a text editor with the add content menu open.

You will now see the text editor in Blackboard.

  1. To add embedded EchoVideo content, click on the + sign in the text editor toolbar.
  2. Select Content Market from the menu.

 

Selecting The Echo360 Embedding Tool

Image showing the Echo350 Media Embed tool selected in the Content Market.

A new screen labeled Content Market will open. Scroll down to the Institutional Tools section and select Echo360 Media Embed (For Ultra Courses Only)

Selecting Video Content

Echo360 Video Library tool with the options of : Choose Existing Content, Create Content, and Upload Content

When selecting the Echo360 Video Library option, you will be presented with a screen with the following options for selecting, creating or uploading content.

  1. Choose Existing Content: Click the Launch Media Picker link to select content you have already added to your EchoVideo library.
  2. Create Content: Use the links in this section to launch Universal Capture or Browser Capture.
  3. Upload Content: Use the Upload Media link to upload new media from your computer for embedding in your course.
Image showing the media selection tool

You can now use the selection tool to select the media object you wish to embed.

  1. Search: Enter search terms in the search bar.
  2. Filter Options: Use the filter options to narrow down your search by Type, Courses, Section, Term, and Date.
  3. Select the video you wish to use from the list on the right.
  4. Click the Next button when you are finished.

Inserting a Video

Image showing how to set up an embedded video
  1. Select size: Use the dropdown menu to select the embedded video size.
  2. Start at: Click here to modify the start time for the video
  3. Autoplay: Select this option to automatically play the video (recommended setting is off)
  4. Automute: Select this option to mute the audio volume by default.
  5. Discussion: Select this option to enable or disable discussions related to the video (This option is on by default)
  6. Link: Select this option to create a link to the video instead of embedding (recommended for student assignment submissions, as the embed feature does not work for assignments).
  7. Click the Embed button to insert the video into the text editor.

Confirmation

Image showing an Echo video embed in a Blackboard Learn ultra document

The video embed will then appear in the text editor for the document you are working on. Click the Save button to finish.

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