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Areas of Responsibility for the EchoVideo (Q-Review) Service

Responsibility for the EchoVideo (Q-Review) service is shared across a number of teams and individuals:

  • Technology Enhanced Learning Team (TELT) 
  • IT Services – Application Support Teams
  • AV Technical Team, IT Services
  • IT Service Desk
  • EchoVideo (Q-Review) Bookings, Academic Registry and Council Secretariat
  • Staff in academic and professional services departments

The core responsibilities of each area are outlined below.

Technology Enhanced Learning Team (TELT)

Responsible for:

  • Staff training and development
  • Service promotion
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Development of support materials
  • Training of support staff
  • Annual processes such as archiving and rollover
  • Reporting
  • Policy development
IT Services – Application Support Teams

Responsible for:

  • Server-side application support and management
  • Running and developing annual processes such as rollover and archiving
  • System monitoring
  • Capacity planning
  • Service reviews
AV Technical Team

Responsible for:

  • Hardware maintenance
  • Troubleshooting issues within teaching spaces and lecture theatres
IT Service Desk

Responsible for:

  • First-line support
  • Initial responses to user queries
  • Routing issues to the appropriate support team
EchoVideo (Q-Review) Bookings

Responsible for:

  • Scheduling recordings
  • Allocating rooms
  • Managing requests to opt out of recording
Academic and Professional Services Staff

Responsible for:

  • Distribution of recordings to students and other viewers
  • Editing recordings where required
  • Obtaining any necessary permissions or consent

Support Process for EchoVideo (Q-Review)

Before and During a Live Recording

For queries relating to recordings that have not yet taken place, contact EchoVideo (Q-Review) Bookings:

Email: qreviewbookings@qmul.ac.uk

Examples include:

  • Scheduling a new recording
  • Booking a recording in an EchoVideo (Q-Review) enabled room
  • Changes to an existing booking or schedule before the recording takes place, including:
    • Date or time changes
    • Room changes
    • Presenter changes
    • Frequency changes
    • Changes to what is recorded (for example, presenter video or presentation content)
    • Changes to how recordings are released (for example, through QMplus, email links, RSS feeds, or immediate publication)
After a Recording Has Taken Place

Please contact the IT Service Desk, who will route your query to the appropriate support team.

Examples include:

Recording Issues
  • No recording was created
  • Audio is missing
  • Poor recording quality
  • Any other technical problem with a recording

These issues will be investigated by the appropriate IT Services or AV Technical teams. TELT will also be informed where appropriate.

Help Managing Recordings
  • Accessing the EchoVideo (Q-Review) system
  • Editing recordings
  • Making recordings available or unavailable
  • Downloading recordings
  • Managing distribution methods

These requests should be submitted through the IT Service Desk and will be routed to TELT.

End-of-Year Processes

Queries relating to:

  • Archiving
  • Deleting recordings
  • Module rollover

should also be submitted through the IT Service Desk.


Additional Information [edit]

This guidance is intended as a general guide. In some cases, a query may need to be routed differently from the process outlined above.

If you believe your query has not been directed appropriately, please contact telt@qmul.ac.uk and mark your email for the attention of Alysa Bramble.