The Administrator's DASHBOARD provides important overview information about the system. Currently, the Dashboard provides informational cards that include:

• Completed Captures: The Completed Captures card shows how many captures have been scheduled for today's date, along with the average number of captures per day for the past 30 days. It also provides a small line graph indicating the relative number of captures per day for the past 30 days.
• Cloud Usage: The Cloud Usage Hours Chart provides a bar graph showing a detailed view of cloud usage for the months indicated. Hover over each bar to see a breakdown of hours for that month.
• Engagement Activity: The Engagement Activity card shows the total amount of student activity (interactions with the system) for the current month, the number of unique students who have performed those actions, and an average of interactions per student for the current month.
• Capture Sources: The Capture Sources card provides the number of different sources providing video media into the system, the total number of captures in the past 30 days, and a percentage increase of captures into the system over the past week.
• Top Sections: The Top Sections card identifies the most active sections, along with their instructors, across all currently active term(s). The ranking is determined using the sum of student engagement activities divided by the number of active students in the section. Click on the Top Sections card to show the Top Sections Report.
• Audit Trail: The Audit Trail card shows the total number of changes made to objects in the system, including how many changes have been made in the last day. Click on the card to see a detailed Audit Trail Report with additional information.
• Videos: The Videos card shows the total number of videos in the system, along with the total number of views of those videos over the past 12 months. Click on the card to see the Video Assets report, which provides details about each video in the system, including the length of the video, the owner (if there is one), and the section to which it is published, among other information.

NOTE: As of March 2019, the ASR Allocation Card has been removed from the Admin Dashboard. The data being shown there was incomplete for some institutions, so we are removing the card pending required updates and improvements to the data service used to populate it. It will be returned to the dashboard in a future release of EchoVideo. For more information on what ASR is and how automated video / audio transcriptions work, see Automated Transcription Service or ASR. For information on your institution's ASR usage and remaining allocation, contact your Echo360 Customer Success representative, or Echo360 Support.

Use the Organizations and Departments drop-down lists located above the cards to filter the data shown on each card.

For many of the cards, the data you see on the card and in the details view may be determined by your Designated Administrative access (where it applies). If DA is turned on for your institution, you will see calculations that pertain to captures, student activity, etc., related to the organizations or departments to which you have access.

Clicking on a card provides detailed information about the data being shown. This is discussed in more detail later on this page.

Click and drag a card to a different location on the page, to change the view to suit your needs.

Remove and restore cards from the dashboard using the instructions located below.

More cards will be added regularly, and you can choose to remove and restore cards as needed. Whatever view you select will persist even if you exit the system and return later.

Removing and restoring cards

You can remove a card from your dashboard using the ACTION drop-down menu that appears in the top right corner of the card when you hover over it.

If you close one or more cards, use the Selector Card (the one with the plus sign on it) to return the card to the Dashboard. Clicking the Selector Card provides a list of cards available to re-add to your dashboard, as shown in the below figure.

The Selector Card (with the plus sign) currently lists cards that are not yet available but which are currently in development. If you select one of those cards now, you will get the card but the data area reads "in progress." We put those there to let you know they are coming. We are working quickly and are very excited about providing admins with as much information as we can, and just as soon as possible.

Completed Captures

The Completed Captures card appears on the left by default (and in the above figure) and shows the total number of captures that have been completed over the past 30 days. The card also shows the average number of captures that have been completed over the past 30 days, and a small line graph showing the relative quantity of captures over the same period.

The count on the Captures card includes class recordings, uploaded videos, UC: Personal and legacy Personal Capture uploads. In short, all video media put into the system is included in the capture count. The Captures data is updated daily at 00:00 (midnight) UTC.

Clicking on the card will redirect you to the Captures page, automatically filtered for Today. This provides a detailed list of system captures for today's date.

Cloud Usage Hours Chart

The Cloud Usage Hours chart provides a bar graph showing a detailed view of cloud usage for the months indicated. The cloud usage data is updated in as close to real-time as possible.

The Cloud usage figure at the top is the total number of hours of data delivery for the institution for the months shown.

Hover your mouse over each bar to show a breakdown in hours of each type of usage for that month.

Click on the usage type in the legend to see ONLY that type of usage in the chart. 

Each bar is segmented by usage type:

• VOD-Institution - Content (video or presentations) that has been viewed either outside of a section / class (using a posted link to the video or an embedded video in a portal or LMS) OR content viewed inside sections / courses that are NOT associated with an Organization or Department. Essentially, VOD-Institution is usage data for media viewing that cannot be put into a bucket for an Organization or Department.
• VOD-Org / Dept - Content that has been viewed within sections / classrooms that ARE associated (through their course) with an Organization or Department.

  Both types of VOD data usage include content viewed through a browser or Mobile Apps, as well as media downloaded from classes for offline viewing.

• Live - Videos that have been streamed live to users.
• Other - The data used to load the front end of the application, among other things.

For more complete definitions of the categories as well as details on what the figures mean and how they are calculated, see Cloud Usage Chart Details.

Use the Organization and Department drop-down lists located at the top of the Dashboard to filter Cloud Usage data as needed.

Differences when viewing Org / Dept Level Usage Data: When viewing the cloud usage data for a particular Organization or Department, please note the following:
   > Only VOD-Org / Dept data is shown; Live and Other (and logically VOD-Institution) is provided for the institution-level chart only.
   > Data is displayed from when the org / dept level data categorization was implemented, approximately Jan 10-15, 2018 forward. February is the first full month of data.

Engagement Activity

The Engagement Activity card shows the total number of student interactions with system objects for the current month, along with the number of unique students that have interacted with the system in the same period. The card also shows the average number of interactions per student based on total events and total unique student count for the current month.

Use the Organization and Department drop-down lists located above the cards to filter the student Engagement Activity data by Org / Dept.

Click on the card to provide a detailed view of student interactions, in a line graph, broken down by type and laid out by day, for the current month.

Also, notice that you can customize the scope of activities shown using the Organization and Department drop-down lists located below the graph.

Hover your mouse over each vertical line to show a popup for the date corresponding to the line. The popup provides raw numbers for each engagement metric, for the date selected.

The engagement activity categories, shown to the right of the graph, provide both a legend of which line in the graph corresponds with the category, as well as a percentage of overall activity the category occupies for the period shown. For example, in the below figure, 35.4% of the student interactions were views of class presentations (slide decks).

Click a category on the right to highlight that line in the graph.

Use the right and left arrow icons on the details pane to scroll through different months, to view the student engagement activity for each month (past only).

When finished, click the X in the top right corner of the detail view to close it and return to the Dashboard.

The Engagement Activity data is updated approximately every hour.

Engagement Activity categories defined

Student engagement activity is broken down by category or type of activity (also sometimes referred to as an "engagement metric"). These are listed on the right side of the graph and also appear (with raw numbers) in the popup when hovering over a date-line in the graph.

The activity categories are defined as follows:

• Confusion - Each confusion mark given by students on slides. For example if a student marks 5 different slides in a presentation as confusing, the activity counter adds 5 for the confusion category. Unflagging and re-flagging within the same day is only counted once.
• Notes - Each note entry created by a student (each note entry, not each word). For example, a Student types some text into the notes panel, then hits enter and types another set of text into the notes panel. Each of those entries is counted, so in this case the activity counter adds 2 for the Notes category.
• Polling - Each activity slide the student answered. For example if a slide deck has 9 activity slides but the student only answered 8 of them, the Polling activity counter adds 8. Furthermore, only submissions to polling questions are counted; subsequent edits to the submitted answer are not.
• Q&A - Each question or response entered into a discussion by a student.
• Slide Deck Views - Each view of one or more slides in a classroom slide deck by a student. If the student re-views the slide deck after 30 minutes, a second view is counted.
• Video Views - Each view of any duration of a classroom video. If a student re-views the video after 30 minutes, a second view is counted.

Deleting activity items (notes, questions / responses, slides) will not decrease the engagement activity counters. The student performed an action and the action is counted, even if the item they added or engaged with is removed.

Capture Sources

The Capture Sources card shows the total number of sources or input methods used to ingest video media into the system, along with a total number of captures in the system. The card also shows the percentage increase in number of captures in the system over the past 7 days.

Use the Organization and Department drop-down lists located above the cards to filter the Capture Sources by Org / Dept.

Click on the card to provide a detailed view of the capture sources in the system and the percentage of total captures provided by each source. This is presented in a pie chart.

Also, notice that you can customize the scope of captures by source shown using the Organization and Department drop-down lists located below the chart.

The source types, shown to the right of the pie chart, provide both a legend of which segment of the chart corresponds with the category, as well as a total count of captures from that source in the system. For example, in the below figure, 59.22% of the captures in the system have been generated by SCHD capture appliances, which is also shown in the Legend on the right as 533 of the total 900 captures.

Top Sections

The Top Sections card lists the sections with the highest level of student engagement across all sections in the currently active term(s). The engagement scoring is based on the number of video views, polling responses, and other student activity in the section, averaged out by the number of active students in the section. The averaging is done so that sections with a lot of students are not given undue weight simply because they happen to have more enrolled students.

Each section is listed with the instructor for the section. Click on the Top Sections card to open a detailed Top Sections Report.

Use the Organization and Department drop-down lists located above the cards to filter the Top Sections by Org / Dept.

Audit Trail

The Audit Trail card shows the total number of trackable changes made in the system. The card also shows the number of changes made in the past day.

The Organization / Department filters for the Admin Dashboard do not apply to the Audit Trail card. All audit trail entries are provided for the institution as a whole. In addition, all administrators can see all audit trail entries, regardless of whether or not they are an admin limited to designated (org or dept) access.

Click on the card to provide a detailed view of the changes made to objects in the system.

For details regarding what is shown in and how to use the Audit Trail detail report, see Audit Trail Report.

Videos

The Videos card shows the total number of video media (uploads or captures) in the system that have been viewed or downloaded in the past 12 months, as well as the total number of views of that media.

Click on the Videos card to open the Video Assets report. The report provides detailed information about views of each video in the system over the past 12 months (up to 10,000 entries).