Echo360, Instructure Extend Partnership for Improved Analytics, Course Creation
Teaching platform provider Echo360 is adding more functions to offer students and teachers via Instructure's Canvas
learning management
system (LMS).
In a partnership between the two companies, Echo360
was
already allowing instructors the ability to integrate polls, quizzes and
other
activities into their presentations on the Canvas LMS. Students could already take notes alongside
videos,
respond in real time, ask anonymous questions, participate in chat
forums,
bookmark video content for clarification and then compile their
activities into
personal study guides with links to relevant content.
With the
extended partnership
between Echo360 and Instructure, faculty members will be able to
automatically
create courses, using information from Canvas with little or no training
necessary. They will also be able to add student engagement and
performance
data captured in Echo360 into the Canvas gradebook.
Instructors
can now view
enhanced student analytics, access class captures and course materials
and monitor
student progress from the Canvas user environment. The links between
Canvas and
Echo360 are fully compliant with the open learning tools
interoperability
standard.
"We
believe that no
instructor should be in the dark about what's going on in their
classroom,"
said Echo360 CEO Fred Singer. "Our integration with Canvas makes it
easier and
faster for instructors to identify where students are struggling and
what
lessons and materials are having the greatest impact on learning."
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Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.