What is the Course Heartbeat and how do I access this feature for my students?

The Course Heartbeat is a feature in Echo that allows students to communicate how they are feeling about their progress in a course. Best practice is to allow students to self-assess once a week or once every two weeks.

View this tutorial via video.

A student has the ability to self-assess in three categories:

• Understanding
  • Red = Lost
  • Yellow = OK
  • Green = Competent
  • Blue = Expert
• Interest
  • Red = Bored
  • Yellow = OK
  • Green = Interested
  • Blue = Very Interested
• Effort
  • Red = Slacking
  • Yellow = OK
  • Green = Trying
  • Blue = 100%

To see the course heartbeat self-assessment in a course for all students, click on the people icon located on a course.

Here one can see how each student feels in relation to understanding, interest, and effort within this course.

Organize each heartbeat column by clicking on its label to filter students based on specific feeling in each category.

Echo is constantly being improved based on the feedback from users and we strive to keep our documentation up to date.  If this document doesn’t match what you are seeing in Echo, please let us know.