Echo360 Active Learning Platform at University of Michigan.

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5 Things You Should Know
About Echo 360 ALP
What do you want them to get?” … “What didn’t they get?”
Launch out with
Real Time
Interactive
Learning
Activities
Ignite
Deep Learning
and
Interactive
Classroom
Moments
Immediately
Identify
Muddiest
Points
Increase
overall class
participation
and retention
Track and
Document
Responses
Over Time

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5 Things you should know about
Echo360 Active Learning Platform
1. ALP gives you the ability to launch out with interactive Q & A
and Activity Slides features in real time. Draw your students
into your presentation as active constructors. Make your
PowerPoint presentation come alive!
2. These features ignite deep learning moments between you
and your students.
3. The interactive features allow you to identify the muddiest
points in your content … What you want them to get and
What didn’t they get. Muddiest Point Assessment
4. Your able to track and document student questions and
responses over time.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – View a short video, Instructor Overview at
https://vimeo.com/124051829

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Educator’s Goal
The aim of teaching is not only to transmit
information, but also to transform students
from PASSIVE RECIPIENTS of other
people's knowledge into ACTIVE
CONSTRUCTORS of their own and others'
knowledge. . .
—Education for Judgment: The artistry of discussion leadership.
Edited by C. Roland Christensen, David A. Garvin, and Ann Sweet.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School, 1991

4. + Passive Recipients to Active Constructors
Our role as educators is to guide and
transform our students from being
passive recipients to active constructors;
and, instill in them an appreciation for lifelong
learning.
The use of educational technology can enhance
this ability and the Active Learning Platform is a
tool that involves students as active participants in
the learning process. Students are able to take
ownership of their learning.
to

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Active Learning Platform Login
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
View a short video
Instructor Overview at
https://vimeo.com/124051829
 Login via Canvas (recommended)
 Login via Ctools
 As an instructor using a podium PC,
you can login through PowerPoint
Ribbon Add-On.
 NOTE: Your students login through Canvas
(recommended) or Ctools course sites and
automatically are added to your ALP course roster.

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ADD Echo360 Link to Tool Menu in
Canvas
 Log into Canvas and select the course where you will use ALP.
 Choose “Settings” in the course navigation bar.
 Select the Navigation tab.
 Scroll down the list of tools until you see Active Learning Platform.
 Click the gear icon for the Active Learning Platform and click "Enable". You
will see Active Learning Platform move up into the list of enabled tools
 Click "Save" at the bottom of the navigation screen to save your changes;
the tool will then appear in the course navigation bar.

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Link Canvas to Active Learning Platform
 The first time clicking Active Learning Platform link the Choose
Section window appears. Create a Section.
 Choose a course window appears. On the drop down menu
for Choose a course, click Create a new course.
 Add course code and course name.
 Add Term and Section Code.
 CONTINUE TO ECHO360
Your Canvas course and ALP course are now linked. Your
students automatically are added to the roster of your course
when they click on the Active Learning Platform link in the left
Tools Menu of their Canvas course site.

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Login to your Canvas Course
GIVE IT A
TRY

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help.echo360.orgHIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Getting Started Demonstrations.
Short videos to familiarize you with the system and its features at
http://help.echo360.org/Getting_Started_ALPTraining_Videos.htm

10. + Extra, Extra! Read All About It!
Your ALP Home Page

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Your ALP Home page
Dashboard - Active Course Information
Open your ALP site and click Home. Click through the categories.
 New Question – Questions posted by students in class.
 Students to Watch – Students in course that fall below 60% (targeted
engagement rate) overall participation.
 All Classes – List of classes (management) and launch. This is your
presentation workspace.
 Student Engagement – Overall student participation in classes.
 Last Class – Review last class
 New Class – Prepare and launch next class. NOTE: Once your upload your
PowerPoint presentation, you only are able to add activity slides and video.
You can NOT edit your original PowerPoint slides.
 Gear (top right) – Account Settings, Help, Feedback, Downloads, Legal
(Downloads contains the download needed for the PowerPoint Add-On)

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Adding Course Details
Click on All Classes from Dashboard
Click on Settings

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Add Instructors
You are able to add other instructors and GSIs by entering their email
addresses. Separate each with a coma.

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Add Students
Your students, automatically, will be added to your ALP course when
they enter your Canvas or Ctools site and click on the Active Learning
Platform link.

15. + Make full use of your Library
Click on Library tab

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Store your content in the ALP Library
 This is you repository of your ALP content and multimedia for
your classes (presentations).
 You can NOT edit PowerPoint presentations in the ALP cloud.
 You can ONLY add activity slides to your classes if you was
uploading to the ALP cloud.
 All classes uploaded via the Ribbon-Add on can NOT be
edited. Activity slides only can be added in Ribbon mode.
 You can NOT upload a new class with the same name as a
prior class. New classes (same presentation, different class
date) must have a new name.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
View short video on Content Management at
https://vimeo.com/124053503

17. + HINT
Classes are your presentations
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
View short videos on Adding and Editing a
Presentation and Videos at
1. https://vimeo.com/124052493 (Presentation)
2. https://vimeo.com/124052493 (Edit)
3. https://vimeo.com/124053234 (Video)
4. https://vimeo.com/album/3330770/video/1265044
65 (Edit)

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Classes List and Management
1. Add New Class
2. Manage Existing Classes from Course List
3. Add Content (upload presentations and add video and activity slides)
4. Launch the Class in Presentation View
1.2.
3.
4.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - View short video Present a Class at
https://vimeo.com/124053764

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InterACTION
Click on Q&A to view questions students have posted during lecture.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
View short video
Manage Questions at
https://vimeo.com/124054341

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What did they get?
What didn’t they get?

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Students are able to
 Follow Classroom Lecture
 Take Notes
 Participate in Online Discussions
 Add Content to Online Study Guide for Later Review

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What are Interactive Activity Slides?
 Use to activate student learning on specific topics
and concepts from your presentation.
 “What do you want them to get.”
 Ignite deep learning moments between you and
your students
 Increase overall class participation and retention.
 Allows you to immediately drill down to determine
and correct muddiest points.
 “What don’t they get?”
 Able to track and document responses over
time.

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Create Activity Slides
 add activity slides through the ALP interface
PC ONLY
download and install the PowerPoint Ribbon
add-on, which allows you to create, edit, an
publish presentations from within
PowerPoint, including adding activity slides
You can

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Types of Interactive Activities
CLOUD PC PPT RIBBON ADD-ON
Multiple choice Multiple choice
Short answer Short answer/
Free Response
Image quiz Image quiz
Ordered list
Numerical
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – View a short video at
https://vimeo.com/124053053

25. + Install Ribbon on your PC
Click the gear and Downloads

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The ALP PowerPoint Ribbon Add-On
PC Only
 Windows-only add-on is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit
versions of Office 2010 and Office 2013.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - View short video at
https://vimeo.com/album/3330770/video/126503730

27. + Present from PowerPoint Ribbon Add-On and
maintain your PPT. animations and transitions
The Ribbon appears as a new tab in your PowerPoint ribbon, and provides
ALP-related functionality for your slide decks.
HINT: First! Make sure to add a new class in your ALP Class List with
the name of your new presentation your are creating with the Ribbon.
You will Publish to this class in the cloud.

28. 1. Sign In/Sign Out - Used to sign in/out of your ALP account as described above, to
enable the ribbon functionality.
2. Publish/Update - Used to publish the currently open presentation to a section.
Once the presentation has been published, the button changes to Update, and the
Class Status section is populated. Update allows you to update the published
version of the presentation with any changes.
3. Class Status - Shows the section to which the currently open presentation has been
most recently published.
4. Publish Info - Opens a dialog box that shows the class to which this presentation
has been published and allows you to
- change the availability settings of the presentation.
- publish the presentation to a different section or class.
5. Add Interactivity - add a new activity slide or edit an existing activity slide
NOTE: There are 3 Activity Options, Multiple Choice, Free Response, Image Quiz.
6. Help - Opens this online help page.
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References and Resources
 Yasuhara, K. February 2, 2015. Muddiest Point: Reflecting back
to more forward. Center for Teaching and Learning, University of
Washington. Retrieved from
http://www.washington.edu/teaching/2015/02/02/reflecting on
August 14, 2015
 Daily Mail, First flood, now mud, Claire Ellicott, July, 16, 2015,
retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-
2174041/Weather-set-muddy-thanks-constant-rain.html on August
14, 2015
 Muddienst Point Assessment, retrieved from www.pdc.edu/wp-
content/uploads/2012/02/Muddiest-Point-ssessment.pdf on
September 10, 2015. Source - T.A. Angelo and K.P Cross, 1993.
Classroom Assessment Techniques, 2nd Ed. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass., p. 154-8
 Samson, Perry J. September 2015, EDUCAUSE Review, retrieved
from
http://er.educause.edu/~/media/files/articles/2015/8/erm1558.pdf
on September 10, 2015