The look and feel of the Player is changing! Upcoming changes are identified in this article by providing screenshots labeled "Old UI" and "New UI".

Administrators have access to all video and interactive media in the system. This includes users' lecture captures and uploads, and interactive media created from those assets. The media an administrator has access to is listed in the Captures page of the Administrator interface.

Clicking the capture row from the Captures page opens the Media Details page. As the name would imply, this page provides details about the media. It also provides access to all features available for the media, from publishing and sharing, to closed captions and transcriptions, changing ownership, making media edits, making a copy, downloading, or deleting.

The top section of the Media Details page has a playback or preview panel. This allows you to play through the media. The playback bar contains playback controls, including play, fwd / back buttons, speed control, and a closed captioning toggle.

It also contains a Settings option to control playback quality, closed caption options, and the Heatmap toggle. The Settings menu options are shown in the below figure.

If you need details on the playback controls, see Viewing Content in the New Player.

Below the playback panel, you will see the media's title, a set of commands, when the media was created, and its owner. By default, the Details tab appears. All of these items are described in the sections below this page.

The figure above shows the Details, Publishing, Analytics, and Activity tabs, which appear for all media an administrator can access. This page describes their contents.

Interactive Media contains another tab, the Polling tab, for student responses to the polls embedded in the media.

Media Commands

The Commands provided for the media in the details page are described below. As an Administrator, you have access to all of the commands.

• Share - Opens the Share Settings dialog box, allowing you to share the media with another EchoVideo user, create a public link, share to a Collection, or post to a class in an EchoVideo course. Anywhere from one to all four of these options may appear for you.
  Edit Media - Opens the video or presentation editor as appropriate to the type of media this is. See Editing a Video or Editing a Presentation as needed. This command is NOT available for Interactive Media. See the bullet for Add A Poll / Edit Polls below.
• Edit Transcript - Opens the Transcript Editor, where you can edit the transcript text and speaker identifications, and apply the transcript as closed captions if needed. See the articles located in Using the EchoVideo Transcript Editor. Does not appear for presentations.
• Chapters (Beta)- Chapters are like bookmarks that learners can use to quickly navigate to points in a recording and are a great way to provide context to the content in your media. Instructors can choose whether to add chaptering to their videos once it is enabled by an admin at the institution level.
• Add A Poll or Edit Polls - Opens the Interactive Media editor, where you can embed a poll into a video or edit (or add to) the polls already resident in the interactive media. Add Poll appears for a video; Edit Polls appears for interactive media (a video with polls already embedded in it).
• Edit Details - Opens the Edit Details dialog box where you can enter / edit a Title, Description, and Tags for the media. See also Editing Media Name and Description.
• Make A Copy - Creates a copy of the media that you now own. The copy appears in your library with your name on it as owner. See also Creating Copies of Media.
• Download - Allows you to download a copy of the media to your local drive. If it is a video, you are asked to make selections regarding video stream (if more than one), quality, or download only the audio of the file. You can also use the links to the processed files located in the Details tab to download files locally. See also Downloading Content to your Computer.
• Archive - Archives content and removes it from viewing access. This can ONLY be done by an Administrator or by the owner. Archived content can be reviewed and restored, and content is fully restored exactly as is, previous to the archive. The created date is not reset and the content is in a protected state and won't be archived automatically again. Archived content never gets deleted, it just gets moved to cold storage.
• Trash - Soft deletes the media. Deleting it removes it from any classes, collections, other user's libraries, and any other linked or embedded locations to your Recycle Bin. This can ONLY be done by an Administrator or by the owner. Soft deleted content can be fully restored for the period defined in your Institution policy before permanent deletion, and come back exactly as it was, including any links, embeds, class / lesson associations, analytics, etc.
  If the option shows Remove, this is a piece of shared media that is owned by someone else. Removing it only deletes it from YOUR Library. See also Deleting Your Echo Content.

Below the row of commands, you will see a set of tabs for this media, each containing different information or actions. These are identified by the box in the above figure and are described in more detail in the next sections on this page.

Details Tab

The Details tab contains information about how the media was generated, links to download media files, and access to manage Captions or Transcripts for the media. There may also be media IDs and other information that can be copied and sent to EchoVideo Support to troubleshoot any issues with the media.

The Captions entry in the Details tab identifies whether this video has a closed captioning file applied to it, and allows you to Upload, Send for Processing, or Delete a closed captioning file as needed.

The Transcripts entry in the Details tab identifies whether this video has been transcribed and allows you to Add or Update transcriptions as needed. See also Accessing the Transcript Editor (Admin) and Managing Transcriptions of Captures.

The Source Files tab, the Processed Files tab, and the IDs tab may also contain media IDs and other information that can be copied and sent to your Administrator or to EchoVideo Support to troubleshoot issues with the media if you have any. 

The Permissions tab allows you to change the owner of a piece of media. If enabled, you can also apply a copyright to the media, restrict downloads and unauthenticated viewing, and require users to acknowledge the copyright before viewing the media. 

EchoVideo keeps the raw video (source) files for 30 days.

The Publishing Tab

The main section of the Publishing tab contains all of the share settings available, along with all of the shares that have already occurred (to classes, to individuals, to collections, and links created for a video if it applies). If you hover your cursor over the created time frame (i.e. "created 9 months ago") a pop-up appears containing the date and time the media was created in EchoVideo.

Publishing settings contain the following information and options, as identified in the figure above:

Shared

Individuals - The Individuals section lists all the EchoVideo users to whom this media has been shared. See also Sharing and Unsharing Media with other EchoVideo Users.

• Click into the Share with drop-down box and begin typing a user's name or email address, then select the user from the matching options that appear.
• Click the X to the right of a user to un-share this media with that user.

Links - The Links tab lists all links generated for this media and allows you to control and configure them as needed. See also Getting a Video's Public or Embeddable Link (for Admins) and Generating a Web Link and Embed Code for a Video.

• Click Create Link to create a link to this media.
• Toggle the Share slider on or off to Activate or Deactivate an existing link.
• Use the vertical action dots to Edit or Delete an existing link.

The H5P Links tab will list all public links generated for this media and allow you to control and configure them as needed.

• Click Create Link to create a link to this media
• Toggle the Active slider on or off to Activate or Deactivate an existing link.
• Click the three vertical dots and then Delete for a link to delete an existing link.

Embeds - The Embeds tab lists all embed codes generated for this media, allowing you to control and configure them as needed.

• Click Create Embed to create an embed code for this media
• Toggle the Active slider on or off to Activate or Deactivate an existing embed code.
• Click the three vertical action dots to Edit or Delete an existing link.

Added to

Add to Classes - The Classes section shows the class name, course, and section where this item has already been published. See also Publishing and Removing Media for a Course.

• Click Add To A Class to add the media to a course.
• Click the X to the right of a listed class / course / section to remove this item from that course / section / class.

Add to a Collection - The Collections section shows all of the collections to which this media has been added. As an administrator, you can also add this media to any collection in the system, or remove it from a collection as needed. If you are a designated admin, you can add any media you have access to, into any collection where you are a member.

• Click into the Share with drop-down box and begin typing a user's name or email address, then select the user from the matching options that appear.
• Click the X to the right of a user to un-share this media with that user.

The Analytics Tab

The Analytics tab only appears for video, audio, or interactive media. It provides viewing data for this piece of media, indicating how many users have viewed the media, how long they viewed it, and where the views came from. Below is an overview of the data provided here.

For more information see Analytics on the Media Details page for details.

Analytics - Overview

The top section of the Analytics tab gives overview information regarding anonymous and identified views for the past 12 months.

Analytics - View by Date Chart

Below the Overview is a bar chart that identifies WHEN views occurred for the time range selected. The Past 30 days are shown by default, but you can select a different range from the Time Range drop-down list identified in the below figure.

There is also a Media Location drop-down list, identified in the below figure, that allows you to limit the data shown in the bar chart and the tables below it to views that came from a particular location or type of location. This includes options such as All Courses, or Not Course Related.

These drop-down lists work together to filter the data shown not only in the chart but also in the View by Location tables and Users view data described in the sections that follow.

Notice there is a Download Data button next to the drop-down lists. This button generates and downloads a CSV file containing the view data shown in the view-by-location tables. This download, like the data shown on the page, is subject to any filtering applied via BOTH drop-down lists. Meaning the data in the file will match what is shown on the page. If there is no data for the time range and / or media location selected, this button is grayed out.

No data showing up? Remember that the Media Location and Time Range drop-down lists filter the data shown in all of the sections below them. If you change the Time Range to "Past 7 days" and / or have selected a Media Location where no views occurred in that time frame, the bar chart will be empty AND there will be no tables below the chart. In addition, the Download Data button will be disabled.

Analytics - View by Location Tables

The tables below the bar chart, shown in the above figure, provide viewing details for each location where the media was viewed. This includes any EchoVideo course where the item may be published and any LMS Course where this media may be embedded for viewing.

Not Course Related views are a more generalized category that includes views from a public link to the media, views from a Collection where the media has been shared, as well as views through the media details page by other users.

Analytics - User View Data

Below the View by Location tables is a list of all users who have viewed this media.

The User views list, like the View by Date chart and View by Location tables, is subject to the Time Range and Media Location drop-down list selections. This means you can filter the list to see what users viewed the media in a certain time frame, or what users viewed the media from a certain published location or both.

The Users list can be sorted by each of the columns as needed. Click the heading of a column to sort the list by that field. First, click sorts ascending, second click sorts descending. The arrow icon shown indicates the direction of sort or no sort (if both arrows appear). The above figure shows the Users list sorted by User (last name) in ascending (a-z) order. This is the initial default view.

The Activity Tab

This tab does not appear for presentations or polls. It provides creation data, targeting primarily captures done for courses, but includes the creation or upload date and publishing date(s) for the media. For video / audio media, it also includes entries if any user has opened the media in the EchoVideo media editor, as well as media processing entries.