 I thank you everybody for coming this afternoon. I'm really pleased to welcome Chris and Amelia for our programme for the 360 group to do their session, with the intention of moving the rights in front of you. I'm pleased you have access to the ability to come from the short and the long list is out. So thank you very much, Chris and Amelia for havinglawn to you. Thank you very much, good afternoon everybody, I hope you're enjoying the show so far. It's great to see so many of you in here. You had a choice of which session to join and you chose ours, so thank you for doing that, I really appreciate it. My name is Chris Bull and this is my colleague Emilia Krzewska. She'll correct me on that later. It's amazing, Emilia, in terms of pharmacy. That's okay. So we're really thrilled to be exhibiting here and sponsoring the theme of diversity, equity and inclusion. We'll talk a little bit about how that's important to us at Echo and of course the customers that we support. And glad to see some of you are represented today as well, so it's really good to have you here. And by the way, shameless plug for the stand downstairs if you haven't been on the stand downstairs. It's the stand downstairs by this room but the lower one right at the end by the main doors. And we have some good suites, so please come by. Find the warmest place in the area and that's where we will be. So let's just talk about what we're going to do. First of all, let's talk about who we are. So we provide tools, software, technology, if you will, to support our customers on their journeys towards providing, engaging, equitable and inspired learning experiences to their students. We help them through what we call the ecosystem, sorry, the ecosystem, not the ecosystem because we're eco, not eco ecosystem, which is a suite of interconnected solutions that include video, interactivity tools, engagements, assessments, and content authoring. Or at university plus many others trust our solutions to help them drive their learning outcomes. So that's who we are over to you. Thank you. And I think that equity and inclusion are super important to us. I think they are actually now we're DNA we've been doing or we've been providing at tech for number of different institutions for over 20 years and echo. E three pillars are grounded in sort of three main principles and this is the educational equity. This is the evidence and also engagement. And I think the fact that the equity is is the first makes a real impact because it's in a way it sort of sets the bar and pays the way for the evidence and engagement. And here at echo 360 we're trying to do our best to make sure that equity and inclusion and accessibility boxes are ticked. And this is done through many different things and predominantly by the fact that most of our products. Yeah. Have the accessibility features and functionality so that is come over all our products. Apart from that we also work with the your kind of product our product and engineering teams work with people like yourselves to make sure that we address the challenges that you might be having in the kind of regularly held customer success meetings and then the challenges related to accessibility within the hybrid learning, as well as as in whose learning are addressed. Apart from that obviously we work apart from that we work with third party companies that help us to understand what's the next trend in terms of the accessibility criteria is we also have internationally recognized qualification qualification. accreditation accreditation, thank you. That allows us to be compliant with accessibility. Thank you very much. I didn't quite work as well as I would have. So in terms of embedded accessibility tools. We have examples such as old text within echo poll and echo exam. We've got so that helps with things like vision impairments and things like that. The ability to extend testing times in echo exam as well or in our assessment tools again for those that are going to kind of need a little bit longer in terms of processing time and things like that. And also on the echo video side which we're going to take a little look at in a moment. Things like areas of the accessible rich internet applications labelling for screen reader support for example. And lots of other interactivity tools within echo video that allow us to again make sure that we've got engagement across across the group regardless of capability and ability and so forth. The other sort of thing to mention that's really important is we have our E3 grants program as well where we award grants effectively to particular lecturers and academics that are looking to extend the capabilities of the echo system to help better the student experience. So for instance, I think this year it was something like 100,000 US dollars were awarded to various institutions in the UK Glasgow and Strathclyde in particular were amongst the recipients of those grants. So essentially it's a really big part of what we do. It's you know the student experiences are key parts of it and we support our customers in many ways. So lastly, death by PowerPoint is shortly coming to an end. So 30 Minutes, it really is not long enough for us to talk about all of the, it's less than that now of course, the capabilities that we have to support engagement and things like that. I'm going to cover off two key ones today so echo video I've just mentioned and we'll talk a little bit about some of the echo in echo poll which sits under the echo engage umbrella in our ecosystem, just in terms of some of the tools that we have in there. So just bear with me while I change over. Okay, so what I'm going to show you now is. So what you're looking at. Yes, what you are looking at is a typical sort of student view, as it were, of the the echo video platform now. This may be integrated into your chosen the early so whether it's canvas mood, etc. But this is the, as it were the the echo video interface, and what I've got a number of options in here so I'm just going to press play on this. Hopefully, her voice won't come booming through the speakers. My God, I think I've set this up correctly. And, but straight away, I can, as a viewer, I've got a couple of options around how I can change what I'm looking at so I can either look at my sources here and select a specific. I'm going to click us in on one particular area so maybe the having the lecture, having the lecture actually talking to me as it were may not be something that I want to engage with I just want to engage with the content and listen to the, the sound as well. As you can see I've also got some closed captioning running as well. All of the videos in echo video are are transcribed automatically through AI effectively machine generated text. But the captions this probably won't be a good example of it because we've not had this recaption but a lot of our customer partners work with the a lot of the third party. So the likes of speech matics and people like that who then caption the content according to the correct terminology etc particularly useful in sort of science and very deeply technical content. And equally I might say well actually I'd rather see. I'd rather see the. Let me just bring it back up again. So I've lost her. So I'd much rather engage I rather engage with the visual elements of the the lecturer actually talking to me I may have the slides on a separate or maybe maybe we're talking about specific content that I can't sort of see at the moment. And again, I don't know if any of you've got sort of teenage kids, but most of them now are watching things like Netflix and things like with the captions on even if they can hear perfectly well. I don't know that sort of thing so again, the idea of having some access to to closed captioning is quite useful. And the nice thing about this is I can make this as big as I need it to, depending upon my needs. Again, I can sort of play around with the look and the feel of the, the actual how it's presented to me depending upon what it's going up against the back of. I can move the the actual place of the content around as well so I can again position it according to best best to how I want to engage with it. So lots of different options in there based on to this accessibility in in in its in its broadest sense from an engagement standpoint as a viewer I've got a number of options as well here. So I'm able to add some notes in as I'm going along, which is going to be useful to me maybe as I'm kind of going through the content Q&A. And so, you know, I might well have a specific question that I want to post either live during the session, or maybe if I'm watching this asynchronously, because I missed the session. I still want to be able to ask my question. I still want to say, yeah, great. I've got some commentary here. I'm also able to bookmark the session as well. So if I'm looking at a particular interesting area, or maybe an area I want to come back to because I didn't quite follow what was going on, I can bookmark it according to that. And even quite a smart thing here called a confusion flag. I don't think you can see the text of the area says flag is confused. So if I click on that, that means I'm telling the the lecturer or the whoever is actually running the session. Actually, I didn't quite follow that part. And again, when we look at things like analytics and engagement analytics as an instructor, I can sort of see which parts were maybe collectively being not being followed, should we say. So very, very simple suite of very sort of tools that allow you to actually get some sort of understanding of make sure that you're kind of catching all those folks and make sure that you're not missing any, any folks from that standpoint. So next part, I'm just going to show you, I'm just going to jump into a different screen. So bear with me. Where are we? There we go. So, so what you're looking at now is more the sort of instructor view of the same, the same video. So, as you can see as an instructor, I've now got access to some data around how many people have viewed the content, whether, you know, where have they engaged? When did they kind of all watch it all the way through? Maybe they didn't watch it all the way through. Can I find out which parts resonated? Maybe some parts didn't. And as I go into things like sort of questions and so forth, I can start to look at, you know, where are the, oops, my bad, error loading analytics, so that's probably not a good time to show that. And the point is, I've got certainly access to the ability to then sort of bring up those questions that I showed before. I can respond to those questions in real time as well. Let me reload the videos, probably what it needs. Yep, bear with me folks. This is the trouble with live television, isn't it? These things always, at least you're going to see the very quick login access into the system there, which you can either do via the VLE or directly into the system. This is actually the admin view as well, because you've got a few more things up here, but actually I've now gone into the bit I wanted to show you. And again, yes, as you can see, we've changed that a little bit now, so we've actually got some more content in that we can actually use. So the last thing I was going to show, oh sorry, I will just quickly show you the ability, so the transcription side of things as well. So this is a tool that enables me to, you can't see it probably, but the ability to actually go in and edit if I wanted to, if I had the time, and the inclination to actually edit the content of the transcripts as well. So again, that's quite useful to do if I want to make absolutely sure that it's spot on. And that icon there gives me the ability to go ahead and push that into the closed captioning if I wanted to as well. Last thing to show then, and I'll hand back over to my esteemed colleague, is around interactivity. As well as the ability to actually edit the media, yes. So what do I mean by edit the media? Well, it might well be that I want to remove certain tracks or maybe re-record the audio or maybe I want to re-record my bit again, a sort of lecturing that I'm able to do that and then build in my new version of the video into here, so it's easy for me to remove and add as I'm going along. I can also trim it down as well, so there's big sort of quiet period somewhere where I was thinking about something, or maybe I got it slightly wrong so I wanted to start again, I've got that option as well. But the last bit was just around the polling capability. So, particularly for an asynchronous video, this would be useful, the ability for me to go in and add live questions, live questions in asynchronously, but certainly questions into the video that as I'm watching it as a student, I can go along and as a lecturer helps me understand, am I getting that level of engagement? And actually, you know, the group of people maybe that didn't quite catch what was going on during the live session, I've got the ability to go over the information again and really get a sense of whether they've got the content or not. So, my last point on this is that I'm not going to show you the polling aspect now, because our newer polling capability, Echo Poll, is going to be integrated into this, which is going to make the polling capability that much more brilliant. So, at this point, I'm going to hand over to Amelia again. So, thank you so far. Thank you, Chris. OK. You're on slides, aren't you? I also wanted to add that I'm already mentioned that I'm really passionate about equity and inclusion to that level that I'm actually doing extra qualification in CIPD to be better equipped with the information that we, as an agtech provider, should give to educational institutions. Bear with me. Consult your notes. Yes. It's so stressful, you know. You're doing well. I knew we were doing well. You're doing well. I knew we were doing well. You're doing well. You're doing well. You're doing well. We do, do we? I mean, it's quite afternoon, normally in my nap time, by the way. If you could go to state after this. Yes. My boss knows that he cannot call me in between two or three, but yes. So, Chris mentioned and showed you the Echo video, a pillar of our company. I also wanted to mention that from my point of view, and not from company's point of view, my engagement is really connected with students, the feeling, the sense of belonging, and a sense of inclusion, let's say. So Chris has shown you different features of Echo video and the fact that we can get students engaged in here. You can actually see how we track the engagement. So throughout the course, you can actually monitor how well we're students involved in your classes. I also think that sometimes the kind of the belongingness and different engagement variants are diluted because of the, in a maybe the lack of our understanding of diversity, of sometimes maybe we kind of forget or don't realize necessarily that there are very, the multiple intersection that represents us as human beings. So we are not only, you know, one, let's say. There are many intersections in terms of our physical aspects, about social aspects, our, our life experiences as well. And I think based on that, I don't necessarily believe there is one size fits all solution. Every university is different, every student is different. And for that reason, putting everything in one, you know, putting all the eggs in one basket is not necessarily the way to move forward. Having said that from Echo perspective, we try to make sure that the accessibility criteria are there across all our products. Chris has already mentioned the alt text, which can be found, or the accessibility feature can be found in most of our products. This gives the students who are visually challenged ability to consume products. We also have the extended time, timers on the assessments that we have. But today I also wanted to show you what we have done. Old, someone from Oxford University actually said, classic clickers. I don't know if you've seen them before, if you use them before, have you? You have, okay. So I know, who was that? Was that Manchester? But anyway, so there is a, generally speaking, there is a trend. So either universities go away or they actually purchase more. So I recently sold 500 to Bristol University. I felt university, LSE, they all use our polling solution. We also have charities like Scope using our polling solution. And the main reason is obviously the fact that they can, they can get students engaged by answering their questions. But some of them, not all of them, but some of them have the Braille on it. Sorry, there is one going around at the moment. There is a Braille version. I think that might be over there. It also has the inbuilt vibration motion. So it's not about providing everyone with the same tool. I think it's more about making sure that we provide the tools that are necessary for our students to thrive and succeed. Do you agree? Yeah. That's my boss by the way. Yes, my boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. My boss. Yes, my boss. Come in. Take a seat. I don't think that I also wanted to say that obviously in your classrooms you can have the less sort of extroverted, quieter students, more introverted students. They are not really comfortable saying their opinion out loud and sharing their thoughts with the rest of the students. So click us or even your phones because our solution can be also used with a mobile phone. We can use that and so the instructors have the kind of opportunity to see and to check the polls of the class, to check if everyone is on the same page in terms of the understanding. You can also do polling anonymously. Great. I mean I'm sure you have seen that before, but the fact that you're giving students the anonymity on foreign by the way, it gives them more freedom and more security to answer the questions. And obviously the timely manner that the solutions are, the answers are shown to peers on these structures also give the sense of belonging and acceptance. Let's say. Let me check. Other thing, I'm sure some of you also deliver, obviously all the things I've mentioned here are great if you want to have engaging synchronous session, but some of you or some of your instructors also deliver asynchronous sessions or they give asynchronous tasks or assignments, correct? Yes. So with this, we are giving students a possibility to answer the questions in their own speed, in their own time to gather the thoughts and also some students who are not necessarily native speakers, they might need a little bit more time to answer. So that solution or giving the sort of asynchronous tasks gives them time to answer the questions. So that is my last slide. Thank you very much for being patient with us. Do you have any questions? Go on. I will do my best to answer, OK? I'll do my best to answer. Going back to the slide, you have the options. Are those anonymous? Yes, it can be anonymous. Again, I guess there's two views on that, because of course if they're requiring an answer or maybe a session that I'd like to spend a bit of time one-on-one to kind of talk about them, then clearly we're going to need to know who they are. But yes, you're quite right. There is the ability for an anonymous feedback and questions as well. Any other questions? Anonymously or otherwise? So any questions or comments? Yeah, comments will be great as well. I mean, we know that there are some, yes, so we do have echo video users, right? There is one. Lecture capture, yes. Do you have a special name for it? Because some universities do have. So it's lecture capture or? Yes. Oh, okay. It's still. Yeah. Go on. You see that's what I'm saying. So if we had clickers or if we had the mobile phones, you could have answered anonymously. We can definitely talk about this. How did you get that? Which solution are you interested in? Video. I went back in. So the video just really attracted me. I was thinking about Ed puzzle. But what you shared looked really cool. Gosh, it must have been good off my demo because that was a poorly even by my standards. No, absolutely. Pop down and see if that's okay and we can talk more about what you're looking at. So echo 360 is not only the lecture capture, but it's great that you actually like the idea. There are various products under our portfolio. And I think that's what kind of separates us from other players on the market, that we have the engagement, we have the assessment tool, which is relatively new and also the content creation tool. So if you'd like to learn a little bit more, we are downstairs. We'll be happy to show you or demo it to you either today or after. But yeah, we'll be more than delighted to talk to you. As I said, we work with a number of different universities in the UK and outside. So if you aren't a customer yet, please join us. But if you are a customer, please come and learn a little bit more about other products. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you.