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EchoVideo: Creating the Course / Section Placement in Blackboard

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BUILDING BLOCK END-OF-LIFE ANNOUNCEMENT

As of 30 Dec 2024, the Anthology (Blackboard) Building Block will officially reach its end of life for use with EchoVideo.

Prior to the end-of-life date of December 30th, 2024, all Building Block content must be converted to LTI 1.1 Deep Links. For more information from Anthology, please see Convert Building Block Content to LTI.
For more information from us, please see Building Block to LTI Migration Overview and Converting Blackboard Building Block Content to LTI 1.1 Deep Links.
NOTE that while migrating to LTI 1.3 may appear to be an option within Blackboard, it has not been fully tested by us. We are only supporting migrating to LTI 1.1.

The main placement for the EchoVideo LTI 1.1 tool is the course content tool, allowing for Blackboard course content linking to EchoVideo sections complete with Gradebook integration. The placement described in this article is a "Course tool" placement that allows instructors to provide an easy link to EchoVideo sections within the left navigation of a course.

TIP: If you are still viewing the LTI Providers list from when you created the tool, or after creating the Course content tool, you can skip to step 4 below.

To create the EchoVideo Course Placement

  1. While logged in as a system administrator, open the Administrator Panel.
  2. Select LTI Tool Providers from the Integrations section of the admin panel.
    System Admin panel of Blackboard with LTI Tool Providers option identified for selection as described
  3. Find the EchoVideo LTI tool you created, and hover over it to expose the menu arrow (also called a "chevron").
  4. From the menu select Manage Placements.
    LTI provider tool list with menu options showing and Manage Placements identified
  5. Click Create Placement, located at the top of the Placements list.
    Placements list with Create Placement Button identified
  6. In the Placement form that appears, enter a Label that identifies this as a link to EchoVideo. This is the text that appears in the Add Tool Link list for adding the link to the left navigation. This is required.
  7. Enter a Description that defines the purpose of this placement for this tool. It is optional.
  8. Enter a Handle or text that uniquely identifies this tool placement. This is required.
    Blackboard Placement form with fields as described
  9. Scroll down to the middle portion of the Placement form and ensure Availability is set to Yes. This is the default.
  10. Select Course tool as the tool Type and enable the Allows student access checkbox.

    Course tool means this selection is available for selection as a tool to add to the left navigation. Allow student access makes that tool link visible for students to use once added to the course.

    Blackboard Placement form with fields as described
  11. Enable the Launch in New Window checkbox. This allows Echo to open in a new tab and eliminate issues related to viewing EchoVideo content within a browser frame.

    If you do NOT enable this checkbox, you should point users to the browser configuration articles located in the General Requirements topic group of this online help.

  12. Scroll down to the Tool Provider Information section of the form.
    Blackboard Placement form with fields as described
  13. In the Tool Provider URL field, enter the Host URL from the Blackboard LMS settings in EchoVideo. Alternatively, the Host URL is also visible on the LTI Tool Providers list in Blackboard and can be copied and pasted into the Tool Provider URL field.
  14. When finished, click Submit.

The EchoVideo Course tool link is now available to select when adding a Tool Link to the left navigation of Blackboard courses.

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