Give Students Access to EchoVideo Recordings through Moodle


You can provide students with easy access to all of your EchoVideo recordings through a single link and/or through individual recording links. When a student clicks on an EchoVideo integration link on your Moodle course page, EchoVideo automatically creates an account for them and adds the student to your EchoVideo course section.

To create a link between your Moodle course and EchoVideo recordings, you first need to add the EchoVideo External tool activity to your Moodle course. 

Add the EchoVideo link to your Moodle course

  1. Request your EchoVideo course.
  2. Log in to Moodle.
  3. Navigate to your Moodle Course Page. Click Turn Editing On. The Moodle course page editing options appear.
  4. In a section of your Moodle course where you want the link to appear, select Add an activity or resource. The Activity chooser opens. 
  5. From the Activity chooser, select External Tool from the Activity list and select Add. The Add a new External tool page opens.
  6. On the Add a new External tool page, enter an Activity name that clearly identifies this as the EchoVideo ALP tool. (For example, Spring 2019 STRFLT-ACDM 101 EchoVideo Recordings).
  7. From the Preconfigured tool list, select EchoVideo ALP. Note: DO NOT enter a Launch URL in this screen or change the Launch container setting from Default. Click Save and return to course.
  8. Return to your Moodle course page, which now displays the EchoVideo External tool link you just created.
    Attached Echo360 file
  9. Optional: If you are not using EchoVideo to generate a grade, under the Privacy heading, uncheck Accept grades from the tool. 

Note: After you have added an EchoVideo External tool activity link to your Moodle course, you need to configure it to connect to your recordings. You have the option to configure a link to connect to all of the recordings associated with your course or to individual recordings.

Configure the EchoVideo link to provide access to all recordings

  1. Click the EchoVideo link that you just added to the top section of your Moodle course page. The EchoVideo Link Content page opens in a new tab. You may need to enable pop-ups in your browser for this page to open. 
  2. On the Link content page, select the Section drop-down menu. A list of your available EchoVideo course sections appears in the format of "Course short name - SPIRE academic term-SPIRE course number (Semester and year)" e.g., STRFLT-ACDM 101 - 1193-12345 (Spring 2019). Select the section for your course.
    Echo360 link content screen for selecting active courses
  3.  Select Link Content. The Classes page for your EchoVideo course appears, showing all of the content for your course.

Configure the EchoVideo link to provide access to individual recordings

  1. Select the EchoVideo link that you just added to the top section of your Moodle course page. The EchoVideo Link Content page will open in a new tab. You may need to enable pop-ups in your browser for the page. 
  2. On the Link Content page, select the Section drop-down menu. A list of your available EchoVideo course sections will appear in the format of "Course short name - SPIRE academic term-SPIRE course number (Semester and year)" e.g., STRFLT-ACDM 101 - 1193-12345 (Spring 2019). Select the section for your course. 
  3. Select Link to a classroom. A list of available recordings appears.
    display of Echo360 link content for type of link
  4. On the list of available recordings, select the individual recording you want to link to. The recording is highlighted. 
  5. Select Link Content. The Classroom page for your individual recording appears. Your recording is now linked to Moodle. 
  6. To add additional individual EchoVideo recording links to Moodle, repeat steps 1-8 in the Add the EchoVideo Link to Your Moodle Course instructions (above), and steps 1 to 5 in this section for each video you want to add.