This video recording guide is intended to be used to assist staff to record short video segments for use in their UTAS units.  This guide focuses on recording with technology available in house at the university.  

Need to give a student an extension? Need to give someone an extra 30min on a quiz attempt? Or a second attempt? Here’s how!   Quiz or Assignment tool – the process is the same but I’ll cover getting to the necessary page for each tool. For Quiz – go to the Quizzes tool then […]

To Upload: 1. Go to the Echo360 link from MyLO – it’s a link from the MyLO Homepage under “Other Systems” menu (look for Echo360 ALP) and enter your email then ‘University of Tasmania’ and if you’re not already logged in it will then ask you for your email & utas password. 2. Click the […]

To split up a video on Echo360 you don’t need to have any extra software, you can do it via the Echo360 interface. If you do have your own software and know how to use it of course you can do it by downloading & editing but this guide covers using only Echo360. First: Enable […]

The Rubric maker tool is a website built by Kevin Lyall & Connor Deckers of ‘MyLO Mate’ fame that allows you to easily convert a rubric from a word document to MyLO without having to re-type everything or calculate the scores manually. The link is:  https://www.utas.edu.au/building-elearning/resources/mylo-rubric-generator This basic help document won’t go into everything, but will […]

MyLO Mate extension now has a new feature that allows you to preview unpublished marks in your Assignments! First for those who aren’t yet using the MyLO-Mate extension, head on over to this link: https://www.utas.edu.au/building-elearning/resources/mylo-mate or (direct download link for Chrome here) & install to your browser. With the default settings in MyLO Mate you will see […]

If you have recorded a video from the Universal Personal Capture – the default location of the upload is your personal library. To share a video from your library: Go to Echo360.org.au (or follow the link from your MyLO site)   The link to your library is on the top left of the page. Find […]

In order to import grades to MyLO the format of the spreadsheet must be exactly correct. This post will cover how to export a file that will then be ready for re-importing, should you have any reason to fill grades to a spreadsheet for later import. 1. Ensure your grades exist in MyLO first. Creating […]

Did you know you can create a quiz question that allows the student to enter text directly into tables or have other information in the answer box for them to use? The way to do this is relatively simple but there are a few things you need to remember: * The Written Response question type is […]

Echo360 is used at UTAS to host video recorded in class but can also be used by staff/students to upload their own video. The video can then be edited (very basic editing, you can’t add captions or combine multiple video). Once upload all video is ‘processed’ by the system to compress file size & convert to MP4 format […]