If you have students attending in person and online, it helps to have a co-facilitator to support remote student engagement. If it is not possible to have a co-facilitator, the academic staff will need to establish ground rules and manage expectations for students. Inform students when you will be reviewing questions (e.g. midway or at the end of a session).
As you start your teaching session and during the session, you can check how many students are attending online.
If Lecture Capture is recording, a notice will display at the top of the Crestron control panel to confirm this.
If you want to check what is displaying on the live stream, it is best to check this on a device that you are not using to present your content to students. Once you have opened the live stream, select the Show live stream link in the bottom left of the screen.
When joining the live stream in the same room that you are broadcasting from you will experience a lag.
In the Livestream rooms in Centenary Building only, there are ceiling microphones to capture student voice as part of the Echo360 Lecture Capture system. These allow academics to record student interaction and discussion during the lecture. Microphones are placed above the seating in each of the lecture theatres in Centenary Building. This affords greater inclusivity and engagement for students who are joining a live stream online or for those who were unable to attend the lecture.
Use the Mute button alongside Audience Mic at the bottom right of the Crestron control panel to mute the ceiling microphones prior to and after any discursive activities.
Remember to speak to the in-room Lecture Capture camera to welcome the students joining online and also to direct any specific questions to students accessing online.
If you are not planning any interaction via Echo360 with students accessing online, you can access your presentation as you normally would during a lecture and use Moodle Forum functionality to facilitate discussion and engagement with students accessing online and those in the learning space. The benefits of this approach are that students will have to access Moodle to view the live stream and will be using Moodle on their programme so will be confident in using the features.
Make sure to provide the presentation and teaching resources to students in advance via Moodle so that they can easily follow along with your presentation.
The following steps provide an overview of using Q&A to engage with your students who are accessing online. To use these features you need to have enabled Q&A . This is outlined in the Prepare for Lecture Capture live streaming guidance.
This feature allows you to engage with your students in real-time and gauge the level of understanding in the lecture with a few quick questions!
This activity is quite flexible and can be used to start discussions as well as review messages. Students are also able to indicate thumbs up to questions and answers from lecturers and other students. Students can ask questions anonymously. Their names will not display to other students, but lecturers can view the student names.
If you open the Q&A on the computer that you are using to present, student names will be visible in the Lecture Capture recording. To protect anonymity of questions, pause Lecture Capture on the Crestron Panel before you review the Q&A.
During a break, pause the Lecture Capture recording on the Crestron panel and review the questions asked. You can use any misconceptions that students have about the content to form the discussion when the break ends.
Select the first icon (double speech bubble) at the top of the live stream page to review discussions and replies to your questions. Select the numbered icon to review replies. As a staff member, you will be able to review student names even if they decide to reply anonymously.
You can access and manage the Q&A from the Echo homepage for the module. This displays once you have opened Echo from Moodle.
Select the question from the panel on the left. The question and responses display on the panel on the right.
The following provides an overview of the Active Learning Features available in Echo360 to help you engage with your students who are accessing online. To use these features you need to have completed a number of initial set-up steps, including enabling Q&A , uploading a PowerPoint to Echo and creating and organising your Echo polls. These are outlined in the Prepare for Lecture Capture live streaming page.
Your co-facilitator needs to be enrolled on a Moodle module as a lecturer in order to access the Live Stream and manage the interactions.
If you do not see a list of scheduled and recorded lectures, this means that a link has been set up directly to the live stream. The PowerPoint will display. Hover your mouse over the top-right of the PowerPoint and select the maximise button.
To use the Active Learning Features in Echo360, minimise your PowerPoint and the features display on the top navigation bar of Echo360.
Students can navigate through the slides independently using Echo360. Hiding each of the slides will prevent the students from jumping ahead and allows you to guide students through the material at a manageable pace. The eye icon to hide each slide is available from the top of each slide viewed via Echo360. 
During a live lecture, students have the option of posting confusion flags on parts of the presentation where they are unclear. You will see an alert on the number of students who are confused about a slide on the top menu in Echo360. This updates in real time.
Your co-facilitator can monitor the confusion flags and let you know if students are struggling with the content. The provides you with an opportunity to reframe the concept and provide additional explanation. Inform students if you will be reviewing confusion flags and how you will be following up on this. You can also ask students to post in the discussion panel about what is confusing them.
When using Echo's Active Learning Features, it is best to add your polls in advance of your session. If you do need to add new poll questions to a presentation and don’t want students accessing remotely to view the questions you are writing, you can create these via a separate device that is not been used as a Lecture Capture input (e.g. your laptop).
