Quarterly, Echo360 releases new features, bug fixes, and general improvements to the product. Here we've provided a summary of the important features that will impact instructors and students at CWRU. For all of the Echo360 release information, you can visit the Echo360 Release Notes website. Check out future planned changes on the Echo360 product roadmap.
Recent Releases
- The UserWay widget is now available to all users. The widget enhances EchoVideo's accessibility by embedding features like larger text, high-contrast mode, cursor modifications, dyslexia friendly options, and so much more. This integration allows users to customize their viewing experience, ensuring that EchoVideo is inclusive and user-friendly for individuals with diverse needs. By improving accessibility, the widget helps all users interact with content more effectively and comfortably.
March 19, 2025
- A fi has been released to address the disappearing controls of the Echo360 video player. Users can now select the gear icon at the bottom right of the Echo360 video player to lock the controls. This change will remain persistent across a user's Echo360 sessions.
March 10, 2025
- A minimum duration of one minute has been implemented for Zoom Cloud recordings that are automatically uploaded to Echo360. If you have a Zoom Cloud recording that is less than one minute, you will need to manually download the recording and upload it to Echo360.
- The Live Player has been redesigned to provide a better experience for your instructors and students alike. This includes new default views for In-Person or Remote viewers that focus on the individual use cases for each type of participant.
January 13, 2025
- Echo360 will implement a six month deletion policy for any deleted content in Echo360. Users will have six months from the time an item is deleted to recover that item from their Echo360 Recycle Bin.
- Consolidated Analytics have been improved:
- Page loading of the Analytics tab within EchoVideo has been improved.
- All of the polling and viewing calculations have been reviewed and verified.
- The Download button on the main Media Views page now always appears, rather than appearing only when all the associated data was loaded, to prevent confusion about it being 'missing'. Data is instead loaded and displayed after clicking the button to Download Data.
- If there are no recent views, the Total Views of All Media graph will now fall back to the latest time range that does have data.
- Users can now select from a list of available virtual backgrounds when capturing video using Browser Capture.
- All recordings done with Browser Capture now come with automatic audio normalization.
- Multi-select content within the Easy Embed modal in Canvas and embed it as a Playlist. This is the workflow when adding Echo360 content via the Rich Content Editor (RCE) in Canvas.
- The Echo360 raspberry pink brand rollout will allow the current Echo360 brand to be implemented across more areas of the EchoVideo platform. The new brand improves the accessibility of the UI through more appropriate color selection and improved contrast between colors.
- The login page at echo360.org has been updated to be consistent with the new branding.
- The player has been updated at long last to be consistent across all implementations of the player. It will be the player you see when accessing a Classroom, the Details Page, an Embed, the Editors, etc. with the same interface and controls in all areas of EchoVideo. Additionally, some new/improved capabilities for the updated player include:
- New layout tools for multi-channel content
- Responsive design down to mobile device sizes
- Additional filtering tools in the Notes and Discussions
- The Sharing tab of the Details Page has been renamed "Publishing" to encompass and better define content that has been shared with others and content that has been posted into a Class or Collection. All management of publishing information will now be done from this tab of the Details Page.
- A new interface and additional options for the Easy Embed modal in Canvas are here. The initial load page now displays all the options you have always had, but in a friendlier way with descriptions for users unfamiliar with the process.
- Improvements to Consolidated Analytics.
- In-App notifications for Instructors are here! In addition to existing email notifications, Instructors now have the ability to opt-in to in-app notifications for events within EchoVideo. We've also added two new notifications for Content Management and Engagement.
- The ability for users to upload spherical (360˚) video is out of beta! This feature is now Generally Available.
- A Recycle Bin now allows users to access and recover their soft deleted content.
- A refreshed classroom experience. We have updated the colors, changed some text fonts, and in some cases, replaced the icons. In most cases, the new icons are just updated versions of the previous ones.