Teaching Online at UTAS

The “Public Link” option is a way to add a ‘permanent’ link to a video that will continue to work even if you rollover your units. This kind of link, however, will NOT collect any statistics about views nor does it allow your students to download the content. If you are not re-using the video – or you want viewing stats – you should add links using the adding Echo360 links via MyLO method instead.

Note: This link can only be created by the person who “owns” the recording – in the case of a lecture recording it will most often be the person who was delivering the lecture (nominated ‘primary instructor’ in MyLO). Or in the case of a file uploaded manually by the person who was logged in & uploaded it.

Step 1: Click into Echo360 either via your MyLO unit – OR – log into Echo360.org.au (choose login via institution).

Step 2: Click ‘echo’ the icon to the top/left.

Step 3: Click ‘My Content’ on the left hand side menu.

Step 4: Find the video you wish to create a permanent re-useable link for – you may need to use the search tools to find by unit code, if it was uploaded recently check the ‘sort by’ option is set to ‘date’ & the arrow set to point down so newer video are shown at the top.

Step 5: When you find your video click on it to preview & check it is the correct video. Then find the ‘Share’ link just under the preview.

Step 6: A small window will load. Click the middle tab at the top for ‘Links’ then click ‘Add Link’.

Step 7: Once you click that a section will show on the little popup window that has a bunch of stuff & a long URL, copy that URL – it’s the permanent public link to this video. You can paste this into MyLO as a URL as though you were adding a link to any other website.