EchoVideo

Hi Echo, Just adding a new Canny to continue the discussion commenced in https://echo360.canny.io/echo360-feature-requests/p/new-video-player-zooming-in-and-out which is marked as closed. Whilst we appreciate the implementation of the Lock Overlays Toggle as a quick fix for the zooming media player, we see it more as an interim workaround to what is really an accessibility issue. The Lock Overlays Toggle reverts the student experience to one that we all agreed was poor last year when the new media player introduced the black padding. We use embedded media players almost exclusively, as our learning designers recommend it. This approach allows students to view recordings within the context of the rest of the learning content on the web page, without needing to navigate away via a link or open the recording in full screen in a different tab. We need our students to be able to see the recordings in the maximum available space on that web page, especially recordings that have a lot of fine detail such as anatomical demonstrations. The black padding makes this an issue. We have very little use of in-venue recordings now and almost no uploaded slide decks, so this argument is really irrelevant for us as an APAC region customer of Echo360. I suspect that we are not alone. The zooming media player does not support accessiblity in that predictability of a media player is considered critical to meeting WCAG guidelines and ensure an equitable experience for all users, particularly neurodivergent and low vision users. Our advice will need to be to use the toggle to revert the media player, but it's disappointing that we will need to make this call.

We currently have a default player style that includes bump-in and bump-out videos to meet our university’s copyright requirements. This player style is set as the default within our EchoVideo environment to encourage staff to use the correct player when creating and uploading media for our Learning Management System. While this setup works well for teaching materials, we’ve encountered an issue with student video assignments. When students submit videos via the EchoVideo student assignment submission media picker, the system applies the default player style—resulting in our university’s copyright branding appearing on student-created content. What we need is a way to assign an alternate player style (one that is not the default) specifically for student submissions. This would ensure that student-generated content is displayed without university copyright branding while maintaining the correct setup for teaching and learning materials.

EchoVideo currently organises educational content using a course/section structure. A new folder-based structure option is being introduced to provide alternative organisation capabilities. I request for the echo team to develop a migration tool that allows admins to: Convert existing course/section structures to the new folder-based structure Clone existing courses to create folders while preserving the originals (backup) Both structure types (course/section and folder-based) will exist. Without a migration tool, users would need the links to the old structure and new folders, which would be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for Moodle 1.1 and 1.3 integrations. Reduces friction for users wanting to adopt the new folder structure Preserves user workflow in existing course content Supports gradual transition based on user readiness (optional) The Ask: Users can convert or clone existing courses with minimal effort All content and organisation are preserved during content migration/conversion. The process is intuitive and requires minimal technical knowledge

The current Analytics tab in a Section, provides good visual data for classes by Class and Students, for a maximum of 1,500 students. For some of our courses, the student numbers have grown considerably, such that an academic cannot view every student's engagement metrics in the Analytics tab. It is only possible if 'Export Full Data Set' is selected, which then requires additional manipulation of the data. Could the 1,500 student limit be increased to 3,000? Thanks

the new UI is terrible. My extension for playing videos at >2x speed is broken, I can no longer play video in the full browser page, every time I move my cursor on and off of the video, the whole thing shrinks/expands, and going back to video menus is now hampered by the back button, which takes longer to load the menu page. This was not a good update.

progress bar keeps moving up and down. this is annoying, can u make it back to the previous version? just let it be there all the time

We desire more information be provided to students using the 'hide my name' toggle in Q&A. For example -Change the toggle label to 'Hide my name to other students' and; -Add a tooltip along side the toggle stating 'Your name will be hidden to other students, however your instructor is always able to see your name against your Q&A posts and replies' (or words to that effect). We believe this change would help stem student misuse of Q&A, as it seems a small number of students assume full anonymity when using the 'hide my name' function and post inappropriate content. Thank you.

Current Behavior: The new Live player has two modes: remote and personal. The video is switched on by default when logged in to the personal view. Requested Change: As a personal attendee, I would like the video switched off by default when I join a session. This is particularly important for large classes, where users want to view slides and take notes without the distraction of the primary video. This feature will enhance the experience for attendees who prefer to focus solely on the presentation, especially those seated at the back of large classes. Proposed Default Setting Start with the primary video off for personal attendees.

We recently enabled Folders in our dev environment. It would be useful to move subfolders with drag-and-drop instead of using the three dots, selecting Move, and typing three characters of the parent folder. I apologize if this feature has already been requested, I did do a few different searches in Canny, so this looks to be a unique request.

The new notification emails which include a thumbnail of the video also include the Echo360 support email as a contact for any queries - we would much rather direct any queries from our users to our own internal service desk, and would therefore like to change this for our own institutional email address or contact details.