Echo360
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Customer Reviews
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Elizabeth G.
Verified UserHospital & Health Care · 501-1000 employees
Turning Point Review - Overall good
Overall, great. I use it to administer tests and questionnaires to students. It helps prevent cheating and it makes data collection and analysis much smoother.
- It is user friendly, after you have practiced the process a couple of times
- The reports feature is very helpful and exporting the data is also very easy and useful
- It is very hard to accidentally lose data, which makes using this software a bit dummy-proof
- My biggest con is on the side of the device user
- When answers are ready to be submitted, the process is not always consistent
- Sometimes the device says that the question list is completed, sometimes it does not
- Although this is easy to move through with some instruction, it can be very confusing for the user
Stephen D.
Verified UserE-Learning · 2-10 employees
TP for webinars falls short
Frustrating
- Familiar with the software and its addition to PP
- Using TP for webinars requires the use of a second system to accommodate audio and video This is problematic for less technical participants
- I could have used Zoom with polling for a lot less $$$$ and a lot less trouble
Switched From
I have been using TP for intructor lead training for many years. I thought I would give it a try for webinars
Jonathan R.
Verified UserHigher Education · 51-200 employees
Easy way ensure class participation
Verified reviewer
- Turning point is used in my med school as a way to measure class attendance and performance
- It is super easy to use
- One thing that is great is once you are set to a channel on your remote for that class you won’t need to change it as long as the receiver’s channel doesn’t get changed
- It makes it easy to pull out your remote and click-in to questions without having to worry about setting up your remote every time you use it
- I’m not sure if it is just a problem with my med school or the internet connectivity but the receiver crashes or malfunctions in some way at least once a month
- I think that it can be confusing for professors to use especially if they aren’t particularly tech-savvy, usually, when there is a problem here they have to call in one of the tech specialists to fix the program and/or receiver and get it going again
Switched From
I attend a different university now.
Caleb M.
Verified UserHigher Education · 5001-10000 employees
5* for Echo360!
Nothing short of exceptional. I think the few pros I've outlined give an answer for this section!
- Firstly I'd like to note that Echo Support is fantastic
- Of all the systems I've used in my work and personal life, Echo has the best support team by a country mile
- Support is swift to respond to tickets and their responses are thorough and take our institution and how we use the system into context
- EchoVideo is the system we use offered by Echo360
- EchoVideo is straightforward but extremely effective and as a result, allows our teachers and students to engage with and make the most of Echo360 without feeling overwhelmed
- Its ability to integrate with other key tools in the teaching and learning space is important and seamless for not only administrators but also end users
- A special note is that accessibility is their highest priority when developing new content - something many systems often forget about, or don't prioritise appropriately
- The only thing that immediately comes to mind is the restrictedness surrounding user role modification
- There is plenty of functionality within Echo360 (EchoVideo in this instance), but the ability to modify user roles against these varying functionalities is quite restrictive
Martin R.
Verified UserHigher Education · 1001-5000 employees
Great product for our needs with new features coming online frequently
Have been using Echo360 for several years to capture and manage classroom recordings across entire campus of a private university.
- Great product for classroom capture across our entire campus
- Robust system that handles thousands of recordings with quick processing turnaround each semester
Sometimes will get logged out or switch roles (admin/instructor) in some browsers if not using incognito window
Verified Professional
E-Learning · Self-Employed
Using Echo360 as a Student
E-Learning
I like that I could rewatch lectures at different playback speeds, as some lecturers spoke slowly or quickly during the actual lecture
- There were some audio issues like: 1) being able to hear irrelevant speakers other than the lecturer and 2) the audio quality isn't the best
- The user interface also wasn't very intuitive
Kalin H.
Verified UserHigher Education · Self-Employed
Good for Classroom Use
TurningPoint offers great software that can improve the learning and lecture happening in a classroom. Unfortunately, I do not think that TurningPoint offers anything that cannot be offered by other free programs. The fee they charge to use the software would send me looking elsewhere for classroom software to save my program and my students money.
- As a current student, I use this software to answer questions asked by my professors in class
- I appreciate the ability this software gives students to interact with professors in large classes
- My professor is able to teach and then ask questions to gauge student understanding
- He or she can then adjust teaching according to the student responses
- Despite the fact that I like this software, I think there are other options available that are just as good without the fee TurningPoint charges
- I had to pay twenty dollars to use this software for a limited period of time, and I know of other programs that would give me access to all of the same features for free
Switched From
I was required to switch by my school.
Verified Professional
Higher Education · 1001-5000 employees
Easy lecture capture
Once you learn the program it is easy to use and integrates into most learning management systems.
- Echo360 has powerful analytics which includes attendance, video views, Q&A, and activities
- Echo360 allows educators use a pre-built calculation to determine an engagement score (one of my favorite features) which in turn provides data to see who is struggling and who is well engaged
- With these metrics, educators can determine which students will require support and assistance to make it through a course
- It is not the most intuitive program to learn at first
- It is highly recommended to make time to learn the program
- Once you do learn the program it becomes second nature
Verified Professional
11-50 employees
Echo 360 is a nice start into an emerging market
Echo 360 helped our students engage in elementary school project work in a more effective way, and it helped teachers see what really stimulated the children in some tasks.
- Echo 360 had an intuitive, easy to use interface and set of directions
- It offers a lot for student evaluation and student stimulation both in video production-participation
- The program needs to decide which way its going, as a tool for students or as a tool for teachers observing their students for better instructional development
- The program has a little of both, and not enough of each
Verified Professional
Higher Education
Sometimes just raising your hand is easier
It is an easy way for students to poll, but only when it works. Too many behind the scene items have to fall in place for a good result.
- Digital App is available
- The integration with powerpoint is convenient
- When it works, it works well
- No compatibility with Apple Keynote
- Physical Clickers are small and easily lost
- App is nice provided it is updated with device manufactured update their OS
- Turning Anywhere
- Too many versions and a software license model
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