This refers to Moodle 4.3 .11 from August 2022 2024 onwards
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The Echo360 link automatically provides a list of video capture recordings of lectures related to your module |
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1. Go to your Moodle page and click on
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the 'Edit mode' slider in the top right corner to enable editing.
2. In the topic where you want to add the recordings, click on Add an activity or resource.
3. In the pop-up window, in Activities
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, click on the 'Echo360 Cloud'
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4. This will open a new page. Give the activity a name,
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(e.g. Lecture Recordings) and 'Save and display’.
5. This will open a new page where you will need to click on the ‘Open in new window’ link.
6. This will then open Echo360 where you can select the recording/s that you want to add. You will often find that your module is already linked correctly to the Echo360 Engage system by default. If you click back into the Echo link you just set up, you'll automatically see a list of modules.
If you find that your module is not linked (sometimes this can happen, especially if the module is not a Campus credit-bearing module) or you are a new user, please follow the instructions below to link Moodle to Echo360 Engage:
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not use the dropdowns to find the 'Term', 'Course' and 'Section'.
New users need to make sure you have been set up in the Engage system (
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email engage@nottingham.ac.uk)
1. Go back into the Engage link you set up above. e.g., 
(The title will be whatever you entered)
2. When you click on the link you will see a screen asking you to 'Choose (or create) a section'.
3. Select the 'Term' (the academic year, e.g., 22-23)
4. Select the 'Course' (The code of the module you're in)
5. and the 'Section' - there should be only one option for this. Then
To add:
7. To add a link to ALL the recordings for that module, ensure
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‘Link to the Section
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Home’ is selected (as in the screenshot below) and click
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on '
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Connect'.
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To add a link to a single video,
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5. Give the activity a name, for example 'Introductory Lecture', and 'Save and return to module'
6. Click back into the module
7. Go back into the Engage link you set up above. (The title will be whatever you entered)
8. This time - to link to one particular video - select "Link to a Classroom"
A list of videos attached to your module will appear.
9. Click on the video you want, to select it
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e.g., an introduction or the video for a particular topic, click on 'Link to a classroom', select the video and then click on 'Connect'.
8. You can then return to your Moodle page and find the link to the Echo360 activity.
9. When you have finished editing, click on the 'Edit mode' slider in the top right corner.
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You can also add individual Echo360 videos into your Moodle page. Please embed them in Pages, or Books if possible, rather than labels.
If you embed videos in this way it is not connected to the module. Any analytics will only show anonymous views.
Avoid Labels where possible, as too many videos embedded on the front page of a module can slow down the loading of the page by up to a minute.
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