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EchoVideo: Transitioning from Classroom Capture to Universal Capture: Classroom

Hannah Petty
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End of Support for Classroom Capture (CCAP)

August 30th, 2019: The download links for CCAP were removed from the platform. This was also the end of support date for these applications in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). While the applications likely continued to work for the rest of the year, there was no support available. Clients in the EMEA region should have planned a full transition to Universal Capture before this time. Clients in other regions could continue to use existing CCAP installations but no longer had the ability to download it.

January 15th, 2020: This date marks both the end of life and the end of support for legacy applications globally. As of this date, CCAP ceased to work with the EchoVideo platform due to enhancements in the capture pipeline that will only work with Universal Capture. It is of utmost importance that all EchoVideo clients complete their transition to Universal Capture.

To transition from Classroom Capture (CCAP) to Universal Capture (UC), you will need to uninstall CCAP and replace it with UC: Classroom. You can choose to do this manually on a Room-by-Room basis or by using our command-line instructions outlined below. See our Universal Capture documentation for additional information and specs.

After the application replacement is complete, the rest of the transition has been made as seamless as possible. Universal Capture will use the same MAC address as the previous Classroom Capture installation so any existing CCAP Rooms will seamlessly become UC Rooms with no action needed. Not only will the Room/Device type update, but any previously configured inputs that are still connected to the computer will also carry over through the initial transition.
Universal Capture needs to be able to detect an input source to update its configuration so any inputs that were configured for use with CCAP but are not present at the time of transition will not carry over.

Note that your Institution ID is a requirement for installing Universal Capture: Classroom. This is necessary so that your Universal Capture application can be registered with your Institution.

To find your institution ID:

  1. While logged in as an admin, click the Settings icon, then select Configuration.
  2. On the Configuration page, select API Configurations from the left.

    The Institution ID resides on this page, as shown in the below figure, and can be selected and copied for use in the installer.

    API Configurations page with arrows showing navigation to the page and the institution ID field as described

Replacing Classroom Capture with Universal Capture via the command line

UC allows for command-line installation on a target PC running Windows 10 (64-bit) or higher.

  1. Identify the computer(s) where you want to replace Classroom Capture with Universal Capture: Classroom.
  2. Download the Universal Capture: Classroom Installer to the Downloads directory.
  3. Launch a Command Prompt as an Administrator.
  4. Run the following command to uninstall Classroom Capture:
    <installation directory>\Uninstall_Echo360ClassroomCapture.exe --mode unattended.
  5. Run either of the following commands to install Universal Capture: Classroom:
    • To install to the default directories:
      msiexec /qn /i "<download directory>\UniversalCaptureClassroom<region>_<version>.msi" INSTITUTION_ID=<institutionid>
    • To install to custom directories:
      msiexec /qn /i "<download directory>\UniversalCaptureClassroom<region>_<version>.msi" INSTITUTION_ID=<institutionid> DATADIR=“<path>” PROGRAMDIR=“<path>”