EchoMonitor informs the users of upcoming and ongoing lectures (including alerting the users about any problems during the lecture). EchoMonitor can be used as a 24/7 monitoring solution that does not need any user intervention to do its work.
Confidence monitoring capabilities in Echo360 capture appliances need special attention and work from the lecturers. Detailed information about the current capture and confidence monitoring images are separated and thus it is hard to have an overview of what exactly is going on.
EchoMonitor has been built to be used as a separate easy-to-use one-screen application that gives lecturers all the information about next/current capture. EchoMonitor also has built in visual alerts to let the lecturer know of any possible errors with video, display or audio inputs.
Lecturers and professors:
- EchoMonitor provides a simple and reliable confidence monitoring solution to lecturers and professors. The application can be installed on an old laptop computer (by the administrator) and will run 24/7. Lecturers and professors can step into the lecture hall and just by looking at the computers screen see when will the next capture start. During the capture EchoMonitor alerts the lecturers when there is a problem with one of the inputs.
IT administrators:
- The IT administrator(s) can monitor all the capture appliances in their institution from one simple application (one at a time).
Have a look at the wiki pages Installation and Configuration to get all the information needed to install and configure EchoMonitor.
- Displaying information about the next/current capture in the selected room
- Confidence monitoring and visual alerts of missing inputs during the capture
- Audio level monitoring with a graphical VU meter
- Controlling (stopping, pausing, extending and resuming) of current capture
- Initiating of Ad Hoc captures and monitoring sessions from inside EchoMonitor
- Notification to the lecturer if the lecture is being live-streamed
- Fullscreen or windowed interface
- Multiple interface languages (currently English, Russian and Estonian)
- Monitoring of multiple capture appliances from one application (one at a time)
- Easy configuration through one self-exploratory XML file
- Multi-platform application (the same application will run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X)
- No need to login into appliance - EchoMonitor will handle the login automatically
- Flexible configuration of visual alerts
- Automatic detection and visual alerts about network connection problems to the capture appliance
- Simple debugging of capture and connection issues (in debug mode)
EchoMonitor has been created in Adobe Flex and is available as an Adobe AIR application. The same Adobe AIR application can be installed and executed in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
EchoMonitor has been created by Marko Puusaar (marko.puusaar@gmail.com) as a side project that started when he worked for Information Technology Foundation for Education (http://www.hitsa.ee).
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