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
- Request your EchoVideo course.
- Log in to Moodle.
- Navigate to your Moodle Course Page. Click Turn Editing On. The Moodle course page editing options appear.
- In a section of your Moodle course where you want the link to appear, select Add an activity or resource. The Activity chooser opens.
- From the Activity chooser, select External Tool from the Activity list and select Add. The Add a new External tool page opens.
- 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).
- 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.
- Return to your Moodle course page, which now displays the EchoVideo External tool link you just created.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Select Link to a classroom. A list of available recordings appears.
- On the list of available recordings, select the individual recording you want to link to. The recording is highlighted.
- Select Link Content. The Classroom page for your individual recording appears. Your recording is now linked to Moodle.
- 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.