IT Resources for MSOL
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Login: UCLA Logon ID
You will use your UCLA Logon ID to access the following resources:
- Bruin Learn for class websites
-
Zoom for online office hours
- ScheduleIt for studio reservations (instructors only)
- MyEngineering for class resource activation form
If you are having a problem with your UCLA Logon ID, do the following:
- Try to login at
my.ucla.edu
with your UCLA Logon ID. If not successful, then go to
accounts.iam.ucla.edu to try to resolve your problem.
- If #1 is successful, email olhelp@seas.ucla.edu with the error message
and the resource you're trying to access.
Login: TA accounts
In addition to the UCLA Logon ID, TAs are required to have a SEASnet TA account
to access the following resources:
How to request for a TA account and activate some of the resources listed above:
- You must request for a TA account by filling out the
class resource activation form
- If you need Cadence or any other licensed software (that you've already
arranged with SEASnet), specify the software you need in the "Software" box on the form
- Your TA account will have access to the same
class resources that your students have access to
- Your TA account cannot receive email
Document scanning:
- A digital scanner is available at the SEAShet Helpdesk office, 2684 Boelter Hall
(see office hours).
The scanner is to be used for instructional purposes only.
Lectures: recording system
Echo360 Active Learning Platform
is the MSOL's official video capturing system.
Echo360 employs AWS to provide top reliability and streaming performance to
students anywhere in the world.
Echo360 not only provides an industry-leading video system that records and delivers
highest quality video, but also provides the ability for students to download videos for streaming off-line
(similar to commercial streaming platforms, such as Netflix), engagement tools that promote active
learning from anywhere, and analytics that can be used to gauge student learning
behaviors so instructors can act before it is too late.
Echo360 vs. Zoom/Kaltura:
- Use Echo360 for primary weekly lectures
- Use
Kaltura in Bruin Learn
for supplemental videos, such as Zoom recordings for office hours or TA discussions
Lectures: NEW recordings
If you plan to record new lectures, including recording using Echo360 personal computer software
(be sure to check the software for updates before recording), coordinate with oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
Recording for non-MSOL classes must first be approved by Dean Yang.
Lectures: recording studios
You must first coordinate with oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
Reservations: (reservations are required for all studios)
- Instructors:
reserve at
http://scheduleit.seas.ucla.edu
or email oltech@seas.ucla.edu to make the reservation for you
- TAs:
email oltech@seas.ucla.edu to make reservations for you
The MSOL program has staff ready to assist you with the training and usage of Echo360.
Please contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu to get started. Additional online user manual
is available at
help.echo360.com.
There is also a video training at
https://vimeo.com/album/3455571/video/124051829.
Please note that Echo360 is integrated into your class website in Bruin Learn.
For assistance with this integration, contact olhelp@seas.ucla.edu.
Keys:
- Check out the studio key from 4732 BH. Be sure to return the key at the end
of the quarter.
Training:
- If you need a training, please contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu or 4732 BH.
Locations:
| Studio |
Location |
Usage |
| Studio A |
4732 BH |
Echo360 recording for class presentations |
| Studio B |
4732 BH |
Echo360 recording for class presentations |
| Studio C |
4732 BH |
Zoom for online office hours |
NOTE: For classroom video capturing, contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
Laptop software:
If you need a software installed on the studio laptops, please consult with
oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
Lectures: recording on your own device
Echo360 vs. Zoom/Kaltura:
- Use Echo360 for primary weekly lectures
- Use
Kaltura in Bruin Learn
for supplemental videos, such as Zoom recordings for office hours or TA discussions
If you have not installed Echo360 Universal Personal Capture software:
- Go to your Bruin Learn class site
- Click "Ech360 Presentations" in the "Quick Links" table
- Click on the Echo360 button on the next page to go to Echo360
- Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner and select "Downloads" from the menu
- Under "Universal Capture: Personal", choose "Mac Download" or "Windows Download"
- Install the downloaded file
- Optionally watch the video tutorial
https://echo360.com/universal-capture-demo
To begin recording:
- Open "Echo360 Capture" app on your Mac or Windows computer
- You will be directed to login at echo360.org
- Login with your email address in the Campus Directory
- If you have never logged in directly to https://echo360.org, at "Forgot your password?", click "reset". You will get the instruction to reset your password at your email address in the Campus Directory.
- After you've successfully logged into echo360.org, you can begin recording on your computer.
- Set metadata (title, details, etc.) and publish it to your course.
- After the Echo360 Capture app finishes uploading to the Echo360 cloud, confirm the capture is in your course in the Echo360 cloud. If you need help, contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
Lectures: uploading Zoom/Kaltura videos into Echo360
Use Echo360 for primary weekly lectures.
If you have any primary weekly lectures that are not in Echo360,
it is possible to upload these videos into Echo360.
To download Zoom/Kaltura videos from Bruin Learn:
Notes:
Steps:
- Go to your Bruin Learn site that has the recordings
- Navigate to your course Media Gallery or My Media
- Click on the title of a video
- Note: You may need to use the filter to locate this video. If your video was not added to your course, it will not be in the associated Media Gallery.
- Click on the Actions drop down menu
- Select Edit
- Click on the Downloads tab
- Select the video you wish to download
- Save
- Select Go to Media
- Click on the Downloads tab
- Download the video using the downwards arrow
To upload non-Echo360 videos into Echo360:
(For help, contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu.)
-
Supported Content Formats
-
Uploading Media Into Echo360
-
Post Media to an Echo360 Course
Lectures: editing and recovery
Services available by oltech@seas.ucla.edu:
- Editing of Echo360 presentations
- Recovery of missing Echo360 presentations
- Archival or deletion of Echo360 presentations
Lectures: Additional Features
Services available within Echo360
- New:Chaptering is now in beta. Currently, users can only auto-generate chapters, but not edit them.
Lectures: releasing to students
Please note that Echo360 content older than 4 years will be deleted and cannot be
restored. A content that is republished to another course offering
will have its 4-year reset.
Initially your presentations are NOT released to the students.
-
Your new Echo360 presentations can be released to your students as soon as they are processed.
All new presentations are initially unreleased. If you wish all your new presentations
to be initially released, please contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
-
Your existing Echo360 presentations can be released to your students at any time.
All existing presentations are initially unreleased.
Note that just before the beginning of each quarter, your IT support will publish
all your class existing presentations to the new quarter. If you wish to
"un-publish" all of these re-published presentations in the new quarter because
you plan to record new lectures, please contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
To navigate to your Echo360 lectures:
- Login to bruinlearn.ucla.edu
- Go to your class website
- Click on "Echo360 Presentations" in the "Quick Links" table, then click the button "Load Echo360 Presentations into a new window"
- You should arrive at echo360.org at the landing page
that lists all your presentations for the class
(if not, click DASHBORAD > look for the class and click "ALL CLASSES" button).
If any of your presentations are missing, please contact oltech@seas.ucla.edu.
Release instruction:
- Click on the "availability" icon (gray
means unavailable)
for the presentation you wish to release.
(see illustration)
- Click one of the following:
(see illustration)
- "Make available" to release the presentation now (the "availability" icon should
change to "green")
- "Availability settings" to schedule the presentation to be released at a future date
(the "availability" icon should stay gray and will change to green on the scheduled date
of release)
- For more details, see
Editing Availability Settings for Published Content
To change your lecture titles:
-
Editing lecture name and description
To organize your lectures in the list:
-
Reordering lectures
-
Grouping lectures (we recommend grouping your lectures by week)
Bad/unwanted presentations:
- If you have a bad or unwanted presentation, please email oltech@seas.ucla.edu to delete it.
In your email, please include as much detail as possible about the unwanted presentation
to minimize any deletion accident.
Lectures: transcription for ADA/504
Video transcription is enabled to comply with ADA/504 guidelines. Echo360 videos are now including automated transcription generated through the Amazon ASR service.
Please note that ASR is not 100% accurate and must be edited and applied as captions.
Online: class websites
Please visit
https://www.seas.ucla.edu/docs/bruinlearn/instructor/template_msol.html
Software: activation/request
Please visit
https://www.seasnet.ucla.edu/class-activation
TEST ALL SOFTWARE:
It is the responsibility of the instructor/TA to test all coursework being run prior to assigning to the students. SEASnet will only work with the instructor/TA to resolve any issue related to software installations.
Software: MATLAB
UCLA has a
campus-wide license for MATLAB. MATLAB is also installed on
the Remote Desktop.
Software: Cadence/EE
Cadence and other EE software are
not available for your class until you fill out
the class resource activation form for your class
to specifically request for it.
Many students have trouble with setting up these software for first use,
so please give your students a clear
instruction on how use these software. SEASnet has the
instruction on to how access the eeapps servers at
http://www.seasnet.ucla.edu/eeapps.
Your responsibility is to provide
the instruction on what to do next after the students have logged in to eeapps.
Software: Remote Desktop
SEASnet Remote Desktop is used by TAs and students to access
lab software.
Software: NEW software
New lab software currently not installed on SEASnet
requires one quarter advance notice.
Please verify and test software in our environment, including the Remote Desktop,
prior to assigning any student work that uses the software (use your SEASnet TA account to test).
If you have any UCLA Extension students in your class,
you must verify that any MSDNAA software required for the class is available on
the Remote Desktop.
Misc: equipment checkouts
There are laptops, tablets and microphones available for you to checkout
in 4732 BH. Please be responsible and
take good care of the equipments in your possession and return them
promptly at the end of each quarter so that they are available on-time
to the next instructors/TAs.
Misc: teaching evaluation surveys
The evaluation of instruction program is
handled by UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
- For details, visit
https://teaching.ucla.edu/eip.
- The evaluation surveys open on Thursday of the 9th week and close at 8AM on Saturday of the 10th week.