The EchoSystem
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The time from end of capture to full audience sampling is about five minutes. Before a student can leave class and walk to a computer, we've simultaneously webcast it, podcast it, and cast [the contents] to Blackboard."
Dr. David Feeney
Director, Digital Media
Temple University
The Engine to Drive Campus-Wide Captures
Meet the EchoSystem server: the strong, centralized backend that automates virtually every step and makes campus-wide lecture capture an affordable reality.
Designed to integrate with a university’s core administrative systems, the EchoSystem radically simplifies the process of scheduling, creating, and publishing lectures. Institutions can leverage their existing technologies to create new opportunities for learning, from audio podcasts to rich-media replays of classroom visuals,
Scheduling API
- Standards-based for integration with university scheduling and room control systems.
- Versatile and flexible, the EchoSystem enables captures from a dedicated appliance, existing classroom computers, tablet PCs, and faculty laptops.
- Generates high fidelity digital masters in H 264 for Video/VGA and AAC audio.
Open Publishing API
- Creates any combination of digital lectures, including podcasts and Flash-based rich media, ready for publishing and viewing.
- Integrates off-the-shelf with Blackboard and other CMS applications, with built-in support for RSS feeds.
- Publishing API allows for custom integration into an institution’s own portals.
Media Processor
- Media processor technology encodes digital masters into consumable image, animation, video, and audio file types, ready for final packaging.
EchoSystem Server
- The heart of the platform, the EchoSystem Server enables users to command, control, and monitor captures university-wide in a variety of formats from virtually anywhere on campus.
Flash Streaming Servers
- Video files are published to Flash streaming servers for ideal playback and viewing on Mac, Linux and Windows platforms.