Lecture Capture
UT Arlington has endeavored to provide the most advanced instructional technology tools available. One of our most successful programs has been the implementation of the Echo360 Active Learning Platform. Video capture technology is used by over 400 faculty in a variety of ways to enhance student learning, including live and pre-recorded lectures that can be distributed via Blackboard or social media for use by students as a study guide or as part of a flipped classroom. In the last year, these instructional recordings were accessed over 450,000 times by students. Echo360 captures 2 video sources as well as an audio feed for a complete rendering of the classroom experience.
Most rooms are equipped with a fixed camera and a microphone mounted to the ceiling. The Echo360 device is mounted in an out of the way area with the feeds from the camera, microphone, and the projector. The advantage to this setup is instructors are not required to power up, operate, or have any involvement with the recording. They come to class, teach as normal, and the presentation is sent to them via e-mail.
Over seventy classrooms are currently equipped with either SD or HD video capture technology, including:
- College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (ARCH): 204, 401
- College Hall (CH): 101, 106
- College of Business (CoBA): 142, 147, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 243, 245E, 245W, 252, 254, 256, 339, 349
- Chemistry Research Building (CRB): 114
- Engineering Laboratory Building (ELAB): 256
- Engineering Research Building (ERB): 129, 130, 131
- General Academic Classroom Building (GACB): 103, 105
- Earth and Environmental Sciences Building (GS): 100, 104, 109
- Life Sciences (LS): 118, 119, 122, 124
- Maverick Activities Center (MAC): 206 Lonestar
- Nedderman Hall (NH): 100, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 202, 203, 229
- Pickard Hall (PKH): 104, 110, 204, 212, 223, 227, 321
- Preston Hall (PH): 104
- Science Hall (SH): 100, 101, 103
- Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR): 194,198, 294, 298
- Trimble Hall (TH): B02
- Trinity Hall (TRN): 104E, 104W, 105
- University Hall (UH): 108, 110, 115, 116, 121
- Woolf Hall (WH): 208, 210, 221, 308, 311, 402, 404
- Fort Worth Center (UTASF): 111, 112, 113, 114, 119, 120, 121, 122
Echo360 Classroom Software
For the Fall 2021 semester, Echo360's desktop-only recording software will be loaded on all ETSS supported classroom computers. The images from the desktop, video from an installed web camera, and audio are recorded and streamed live via the software. The software can be installed in any classroom or lab. There is also software you can load onto your personal laptop (Windows or Apple iOS) to record and stream from home or your office. That software is available from the Echo360 server once you are registered with the Echo360 system by the administrator.
For more information contact:
Don Lane, Manager of Technical Operations
E-mail dklane@uta.edu or phone 817-272-3296
