We are writing to inform you of upcoming changes to how you can organise and share content in Echo360. These changes will improve the ability to share content with others, organise shared and personal content, and find content in your Library.
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Echo360 Community,

We are writing to inform you of upcoming changes to how you can organise and share content in Echo360. These changes will improve the ability to share content with others, organise shared and personal content, and find content in your Library.

What is changing?

The upcoming changes involve three key components, which are explained below:

  • The Groups feature will be renamed Collections
  • The Groups tab will be removed from the top menu
  • Collections will be added to the Library

All current Groups capabilities will be available in Collections and new capabilities will be rolled out in future releases, making Collections a more powerful way of sharing and organising content than is currently available.

In the current user interface, Groups is a separate tab, accessed in the top navigation as shown below.

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When Groups is renamed to Collections, the separate tab will be removed from the top navigation and Collections will be added to the top of the Library, above the Media section, as seen below. Note: since administrators do not have libraries, they will only see their existing Groups tab renamed to Collections.Collections_Picture2
 

Why is this feature changing?

By renaming Groups to Collections, it will be clearer that this feature offers a way to organise content as well as to share it with others. Collections can be used by individuals to organise content in their libraries without the need to share it. When a Collection is shared, the new structure will make it easier for users to find content that has been shared with them without the need to navigate to a separate tab.

We will be building out the capabilities and permissions for content shared in Collections going forward and this name will make more sense for the new capabilities that are planned.


How does this affect users?

This change doesn’t remove any existing capabilities and should make new capabilities easier to implement into content management workflows. Other than adapting to a new name, the primary impact of this change is that users will no longer need to navigate to a separate tab to find shared or organised content.


When will this change happen?

At this time, we anticipate this change to be implemented in our first deployment of 2022, on 11-12 January 2022.

What do you need to do?

This change will be pushed automatically and, for those customers who have enabled the in-app Resource Center, there will be on-screen orientation to explain the changes to instructors when they next log-in to Echo360. To better prepare your users, you may want to provide them with advanced notification. Please feel free to share this email and/or the screen shots in your communications.

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jocasta Williams who will be able to assist you.


All the best,
Echo360 Team