Getting Started with Echo360

Echo360 is the school’s video management and lecture capture solution. With Echo360, instructors can capture classroom lectures, as well as create videos directly from a home/office computer equipped with the Echo360 Universal Capture software. All videos are hosted and shared through the Echo platform for students to stream (not download.) Further, Echo360 affords instructors’ control over when students can view recordings and for what duration.

To access Echo360, visit LawNET and click on the Echo360 button under the APPS tab.

Before jumping into how to create recordings with Echo360 Universal Capture software, it’s worth taking a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the Echo360 portal:

• Navigating Around Echo360
• Accessing Courses in Echo360
• Understanding Your Media Library in Echo360

Installing Echo360 Universal Capture

Echo360 Universal Capture allows instructors to record themselves from a Mac or Windows home/office computer. Recordings can include a view of the instructor (i.e., the instructor’s camera), along with presented materials such as PowerPoint or content the instructor interacts with from a website or file (i.e., the instructor’s desktop).

• • To obtain the Echo360 Universal Capture program, visit LawNET and select Echo360 under Apps.
  • Click on the gear icon on the top right of the Echo360 home page and choose Downloads from the drop-down menu
  • Select either the Mac Download or Windows Download

• • Select the downloaded Echo file to begin the install process and follow the prompts to complete the installation
  • After completing the installation, launch the Echo360 Universal Capture application from the desktop and click on Sign In. At the browser prompt, enter your Fordham Email Address (xxxxxx@fordham.edu) and click Submit.

• The system will redirect to the Fordham login process. Log in with your AccessIT ID credentials.

Echo360 Universal Capture Overview

1. Click to edit the details of the recording.
2. Your profile and logout.
3. Click to select the display or webcam from a list. In this case, this is capturing the computer display.
4. Click to select the microphone from a list so that your audio could be recorded.
5. Click to select the display or webcam from a list. In this case, this is using a webcam.
6. Click on this to start recording. There will be a countdown.

1. Stop and publish the recording
2. Pause the recording
3. Cancel the recording

For detailed instructions on using Universal Capture, click here.