The procedures on this page must be performed by a user who is an Administrator in both Moodle AND EchoVideo.
Providing a direct link to users' EchoVideo media library involves creating an External Tool link for the library. This makes the tool available to be added to each course as needed. The procedures on this page are for creating the external tool. They are nearly identical to the procedures for adding the original EchoVideo course-linking tool.
The procedures below are provided as guidelines for configuring the Moodle tool. Refer to the Moodle documentation for additional details if you need further assistance.
BEST PRACTICE: Selecting and copying values between EchoVideo and the LMS can be difficult and error-prone. To select the full value of an LMS field, do the following:
1) Use your mouse to select a portion of the field values.
2) Press Ctrl+A / Command+A to "select all" of the field.
3) Press Ctrl+C / Command + C to copy the selected value.
4) Paste the value into the corresponding field in the LMS LTI External Tool configuration.
To create an External Tool for the EchoVideo Library
- Log in to Moodle as an administrator.
- From the Settings menu, select Site administration Plugins External Tool Manage tools as shown in the below figure.
- On the Manage Tools page, click Configure a tool manually, as shown below.
The External Tool configuration page appears. - Enter a Tool Name that clearly identifies this as the EchoVideo Library tool you are configuring. Since you likely already have an EchoVideo tool for course-linking, specifying this as the Library tool link is important.
- Copy the following fields from the Moodle LTI Profile in EchoVideo into the corresponding fields on the External Tool Configuration form:
- Tool URL Host URL
- Consumer Key Consumer Key
- Shared Secret Shared Secret
- In the Tool URL field, go to the END of the URL you pasted and append it with the following: /launch/medialibrary This is case sensitive. Be sure to enter the text in all lower case, exactly as provided here and shown in the figure below figure
- In the Tool configuration usage drop-down list, select Show as activity chooser and as a preconfigured tool, as is shown in the below figure.
- For Default launch container, select Embed or Embed without blocks. This opens the library inside the Moodle window. Alternatively, you can select New window, which then opens the library in a new browser tab.
- Optionally, click Show more... to expand this section of the page, then enter the following URL into the Icon URL field (customizing the base for your region as appropriate - echo360.net.au, echo360.org.uk, echo360.ca):
https://echo360.org/assets/images/echo360_play_icon.png - Expand the Privacy section of the page.
- For the Share launcher's name and Share launcher's email options, select Always as shown in the below figure. This is required so that EchoVideo can identify the incoming user and place them into their EchoVideo media library.
- Since there are no gradebook integrations with the Library, you can leave the Accept grades option at the default or set it to Never.
- Complete any other fields in the form as appropriate for your institution.
- When finished, click Save changes.
The EchoVideo Library Tool should now appear in the list of selections for adding an External Tool activity / resource to any Moodle course.