Legacy Documentation: If you are installing the EchoVideo TinyMCE plugin and filter or upgrading the EchoVideo atto plugin and filter to at least version 1.0.17, you do not need to perform the steps on this page. This help article has been left in place for institutions that have not yet upgraded Atto or moved to TinyMCE, to reference as needed. The latest plugins and filters include all the necessary settings to allow students to embed videos and submit EchoVideo videos as homework.
This article outlines steps specific to configuring a legacy version of the EchoVideo Atto plugin and filter.
EchoVideo provides an Atto plugin that can be downloaded from EchoVideo and installed and configured on your Moodle instance. If you have upgraded to at least version 1.0.10 of the plugin and filter, the EchoVideo Embed button will be visible to both Instructors and Students, allowing them to embed videos from their EchoVideo library directly into a Moodle content window. Students will also be able to embed EchoVideo videos in assignment submissions and in responses to Assignments posted by an instructor. However, none of the student embeds will work unless you enable trusted content in the Moodle Site Policy settings and set the Student role to allow trusted content. This page provides instructions for enabling these settings.
On the EchoVideo side, the Student Library must be enabled so students can embed videos in the LMS content window.
The changes on the Moodle side effectively give Students the authority to pass URLs through to content windows. This change is required, or the embedded videos will be stripped when the student submits the page or post. The change is to enable Trusted Sites in Moodle, and then to Allow the Student role (or whatever your student role is in Moodle if you use custom roles) to use Trusted Sites.
These procedures must be performed by the Moodle administrator. The steps below are provided as a guide; please refer to the Moodle documentation for further details if necessary.
To configure Moodle to allow students to embed EchoVideo videos into content windows
- Log in to Moodle as an administrator
- Select Site Administration.
- Scroll down to Security and select Site policies.
- On the Site Policies page, scroll down to find the Enable Trusted Content entry (or Ctrl+F and search "trust").
- Click a check box to turn it on (it is off by default). This tells Moodle not to strip content entries of HTML and URL tags.
- Return to the Site Administration home and click Users.
- In the Permissions section of the Users page, select Define Roles.
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In the roles listed, find the Student entry (or the custom role you use for students, if applicable).
If you use multiple roles for Student users and want the embed capability to work for all of them, repeat the next steps for each role.
- Click the Edit option for the Student role. It looks like a gear.
- In the Student Role editing page, scroll to find the Trust submitted content entry (or
Ctrl+Fto search for "trust"). - Enable the Allow checkbox.
There! You are finished. If you upgraded the Moodle Plugin to at least version 1.0.10, Students should now be able to see the Embed button in content windows, embed videos from their EchoVideo library, and submit EchoVideo videos for assignment responses. Again, be sure the Student Library toggle is on in EchoVideo for Students.