All of the content you have access to and that you can view or work with outside of a course is found on your Echo360 Library page, shown below. This is sometimes also referred to as your "Media Library" or "Content Library". The Library page combines all of the media you have access to in one place.  Don't have a Library option in the Top Menu?  Administrators can disable the Student Library. If this is the case for your institution, and you are a Student, you will only see the Courses and possibly a Collections option in the top menu. And you can stop reading this article. What you can do with this media depends a lot on whether or not you own the media, and whether or not you are an Instructor, Teaching Assistant, or Student. Students may or may not have much content to work with. Instructors probably have some content available, maybe a lot. The bottom line is that the Library page provides a single content management location for your media. If you are an instructor or teaching assistant, you may also want to read Managing Media in Classrooms for information on publishing media directly to a class, and for working with the media published there. The Media Tiles Each media tile on the Library page provides a thumbnail preview of the media. It provides the Name of the media and WHO owns it. It also shows the length of the video or the number of slides in a presentation, as well as when it was added to the system. For captures of classroom lectures, the title of the media is often also the name of the course to which it was published. This is the case for the figure shown below. Clicking ON a media tile opens the Media Details page. The media details page provides the ability to view the item along with other information and functionality. The  Hovering over a media tile exposes a Menu button in the lower right corner of the thumbnail image.  Click the menu button to access commands available to you. What you can select depends on whether you own the media, what features have been enabled for your institution, and whether you are an Instructor, Teaching Assistant, or Student. It is essentially a shortcut to the same actions you could perform from the media details page. Searching and Filtering Library Media The top of the Library page contains both a search and a filtering option to help you find the piece(s) of media you are looking for. Enter text into the Search Content text box to find media with a title or description containing terms that match those entered. Click the Filters link to filter the media based on the selections available.  Or BOTH! Filter the library first, then perform a Search on the filtered media! Content-specific filters Type- Filter by the type of media you are looking for Audio Video Presentation Interactive Media Poll Owner- FIlter by the owner (or creator) of a piece of media Anyone - All content, regardless of owner. Anyone except me - This is media that another user has shared with you so that you can view it outside of a classroom or section. See Viewing Shared Media for more information. Me - As the name implies, this is content you own. It is yours to do with as you please. You can copy, edit, publish to a class (if you are an instructor), share it with another user, along with other actions. See Why does Ownership Matter? below for more information. Source- Filter by where or how the media was generated Classroom Captures - Videos created in the classroom by a capture appliance or Universal Capture: Classroom installation Live Captures - Videos created with the Live Stream option selected; can include both classroom captures or personal captures that were also streamed live. Meeting Recordings - Videos created of Zoom meetings that were automatically ingested through the Zoom integration with Echo360. Zoom meetings that are manually uploaded are classified as "Uploads". NOTE: Only Zoom meetings that have occurred from the June 30/July 1, 2020 release and newer are tagged as Meeting Recordings. Those that were added prior to then are classified as "Uploads". Personal Captures - Videos created using Universal Capture: Personal Uploads - Videos or presentations that were added by uploading them to Echo360. Status- Filter by the status of the media Shared - Media that has been shared with other users or published to a course. Not Shared - Media that has not been shared or is not currently published to a course. If you own the media, it means that this media ONLY resides in your library. Note that in the Source categorization, if you select Live Captures, you will return both Personal Captures and Classroom Captures if your library contains both. You will not see any Uploads because uploads are not live streamed. Furthermore, ANY filtering you do will apply to both media you own and media that has been shared with you (unless you also select an Owner filter). For example, another instructor shares a classroom capture with you that was live streamed. When you filter your library for Live Captures, you will see both your Live streamed classes as well as the one shared with you. Publishing location filters The publishing location filters allow you to display only the media that is published to all courses in a specified term, or to a specific course. Term - Filter by content published to any Course or Section within a specific Term. Course - Filter by content published to a specific Course. If you are an instructor or teaching assistant, you may also want to read Managing Media in Classrooms for information on publishing media directly to a class, and for working with the media already published there. It is important to note that a "Shared" status refers to both media that you have shared with other individuals as well as media that is published to a course. Meaning if you select Not Shared as a status but then also select a Term or Course, you will not get any results, because those filters are mutually exclusive. How does it get there There are several ways content ends up in your Library page. You are the instructor identified for the Capture Schedule. You own the class recordings made and they appear in your Library. Uploading media to Echo; you own this media. The media is in a Group where you are a member; this media can be viewed from either your Library or the Group where it resides. What else you can do with it depends on your group permissions. Creating a personal capture using Universal Capture: Personal. Create a Copy from the Class list; you own the copy. Another user shares media with you; you do not own this and may only be able to view it. See Viewing Shared Media for more information. Copying shared media; you own the copy. Making copies of your own content, in case you want to edit one version while keeping the original intact. You generate an ad hoc capture; since you initiated it, you own it. Select the Filter link (described above) and select the Owner option to filter your media by whether or not YOU own it or it has been shared with you (owned by "Anyone except me").  Why does ownership matter As stated above, the Media Details page is available for all media in your Library. You can view this and you may also be able to Download or Copy or Post the media to an Echo360 or LMS/VLE course. If you are the owner of a piece of media, you have full control over it. Instructors have more functionality than Students do (students cannot publish to a course, for example). OWNED media appears in the Library page with YOUR name appearing at the bottom of the tile. What can media owners do that non-owners typically cannot? Edit the Name (title) or Description of the media Share or Unshare the media with another user (provide or revoke access through the Shared With Me page) Edit a Video with the Echo360 video editor. Manage transcriptions of video or audio media. Edit a Presentation by adding or removing slides, or editing Activity slides Delete the media from the system altogether (see the exception to deleting below) Keep in mind, however, that if the shared (or group) media also resides in an Echo360 course where certain features are enabled (i.e., course media editing, student transcript editing), you may be able to perform these functions from your Library even though you are not the owner. See Viewing Shared Media for more information. Instructors who are owners can also: Share (Publish) or Unshare to a class in a course Manage the Closed Captions on a video (Upload or Delete) Create a URL link to the media to post or share with others Create an embeddable URL to copy and post external to Echo360 Exception to deleting media: Typically you can delete any media you own. This removes it from all locations in Echo (and it cannot be recovered!). Users can always delete media they uploaded or copies they created of other media. Instructors may be able to delete classroom recordings if an administrator has allowed it (it's an institutional setting), or you may not. If you see content in your Echo Home page that you own, but cannot delete, and this is a problem for you, contact your Administrator for assistance. Information Retrieved from: Your Media Library – Getting Started (echo360.com) 

The media shown in your Library is either shared to a course (published) or not. Course-Shared content is media that has been put into at least one class in at least one course. Typically class captures are shared immediately after they are recorded. Unpublished content is only visible in your Library (and to Admins but that's a different article). Instructors can ONLY share content they own. This means that ALL of the content discussed on this page resides in the Library, as shown in the below figure. Instructors who access the media details page of content they do not own (shared with them or via the Class List) can see where the item has been published but cannot change it. Sharing to a course/class can be done from the Library or from the Media Details page; both methods are described in the below procedure. Click Library from the top menu. To see whether the item has been published (and where it was published) click a tile in the Library to open the media details page. Any courses to which the item has been published already appear at the top of the Share Settings area of the page, in the Classes section, as shown in the below figure. From here you can add the media to another class or course or remove/unpublish it as necessary. ALTERNATELY, you can add media to a class from the Class List page for a course. Sharing or Publishing Media to a Course Publishing or sharing to a course is done through the Class Sharing modal, which can be accessed in different ways, as described below. The box itself and the fields in it function the same way regardless of how you access it. To publish content to a course 1. There are a few ways to open the Share to a Class dialog box: Click the Add To A Class button in the Media Details page, located below the list of any locations where this item may already be published. The Class sharing window appears. ALTERNATELY...FROM THE LIBRARY... Click the menu button for a content tile and select Share Then click the Class tab. The Share Settings dialog box contains between one and four tabs, depending on what you have access to share media to. Everything else in the Class tab is identical and described below. 2. Use the course drop-down list at the top of the modal to select the course where you want to share this media. 3. Use the term and section drop-down lists (which become active after selecting a course) to select the term and section where you want to share the media. 4. Select whether you want to share this media to an Existing Class or create a New Class to hold this media. 5. For an Existing Class, use the drop-down list to select which class to share the media to. 6. For a New Class, enter a Name and/or a Start Date and Start Time for the class, as well as a Duration. If typing in the field, Start Date can be entered in mm-dd-yyyy format or in yyyy-mm-dd format, depending on your regional settings; Start Time can be entered in 12-hour using the AM/PM button. NOTE: Classes must have either a Name or a Date/Time/Duration and typically have both, but only one or the other is required. A Description is optional. 7. Click the Calendar icon to open the date-picker to populate the Start Date field if necessary. 8. If necessary, change the Availability settingsof the newly shared item. By default, the item will be available now (immediately) and unavailable never (available indefinitely). Leave this at the default or you can set availability as follows: available now: Students can view the shared media as soon as you finish publishing it. This is the default available never: The media is shared to the class but students cannot see it. This is the same as making availability manual (you must set the item to be available when you are ready). available date: The media will be unavailable until midnight on the specified date, at which time students will be able to view the media. unavailable never: The media is available to students and will continue to be unless this is changed. Along with 'available now', this is the default. unavailable date: The media will become unavailable to students at midnight on the specified date. 9. If setting Date-based availability, selecting the Date option activates the date field and the calendar icon for using the date picker. You must enter a date if this option is selected. 10. When finished, scroll to the bottom of the Sharing modal and click Share. NOTE: If the Share button is not active, review the fields in the modal and be sure you have completed all the necessary items. 11. Repeat the above steps to share to a different course. The content now appears for the selected (or created) class on the Class List page for the course. If you created a new class to hold the content and the class has no date, your new class appears at the bottom of the class list by default. You can reorder the class list and change its location if necessary. Unsharing or removing content from a course Once shared to a course (published), media can be removed from any class(es) in which it resides. This is done from the Content Details page. ALTERNATELY, you can remove media from a class via the Class List page for a course. IMPORTANT: Unpublishing/Unsharing media from a class removes any student notes or bookmarks, as well as class Q&A and all student viewing analytics associated with the item. This information is not recoverable. If you want to retain this data but not allow students to view the media, consider making it unavailable instead. To remove (unpublish/unshare) content from a class 1. Click on a content tile in your Library to open the Content Details page. 2. Scroll down to the Share Settings > Classes section of the Content Details page and click the X located to the right of the course/class you want to remove this media from as shown below. 3. Click OK on the Warning message that appears. When finished, the media no longer appears in the class/course from which it was removed, though the class remains in the course. Information Retrieved from: Share (Publish) and Unshare Media to a Course – Teaching & Learning (echo360.com)