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This guide explains how to link from a Moodle course to a single recording already published to an Echo 360 course/section. If the recording was created with something other than Echo360 (e.g. Zoom) the teacher will first need to ensure that the recording is uploaded and published to a course within Echo360.

If you want your Moodle page to feature a single Lecture Recording Activity which contains all of your recordings for that year, see Add a Moodle link to lecture recordings (Echo 360 recordings)

Please note you will not be able to set up the Moodle link until after your first recording has been published. If you do not see the Echo360 course for the section you wish to publish to, please contact eden.lecturerecording@lse.ac.uk as you will need to be added as an ‘Instructor’ if this is the case.

1.) Log in to Moodle with via Office365 (Using your @lse.ac.uk email address).

2.) Navigate to your course, and click Turn editing on.

3.) Scroll to the section in which you want the link to your recordings to appear.

4.) Click Add an activity or resource.

5.) In the “Activity chooser”, select Echo360 Lecture Recording and Add.

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6.) Title the activity in the box next to the Activity name* field, e.g. “Lecture

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Recording”(

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7.) Click Save and display. (

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4 8.) Click Open in new windowwindow” (See image below).

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Confirm that the “Currently linked section” matches the Moodle course that you are editing. If not or you wish to link to another course, please see Add a link to recorded lectures from other courses or years (Echo360 recordings).

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5. To link to an individual recording*, select Link to a classroom, choose the appropriate recording and click LINK CONTENT.

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* Note: 9.) If you wish to publish lecture recordings on an individual basis, then populate the ‘Term’, ‘Course’ and ‘Section’ fields to reflect the course and academic you wish to publish to. Once the fields are populated, select ‘A lesson (a specific lesson item in the section).This will then provide a drop down menu featuring all individual recordings added to that academic year’s course code. (See below image highlighted in red).

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Once the desired recording has been selected, hit the 'CONNECT' button. (See image below). At this point you will have a Lecture Recording Activity on the Moodle page that contains just one single lecture.

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If you cannot see the recording listed and you uploaded your video or you recorded using Zoom, you probably first need to share the video to the corresponding course in Echo 360.

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When you link to an individual recording from Moodle, students using this link will be able to browse other videos for this course on from within Echo360. If you have videos that you do not want them to see (yet), you will need to change their availability within Echo360 itself. You can do this by clicking on the (blue star) button and choosing Availability settings from the menu. You are finished. You can now navigate back to the main course pageConfirm that the “Currently linked section” matches the Moodle course that you are editing. If not or you wish to link to another course, please see Add a link to recorded lectures from other courses or years (Echo360 recordings).

Further information

Please note that your students must use navigate to the link in your Moodle course to access the lecture recordings. You will not be able It is not suggested protocol to distribute these links to your students by email, or on via a web page outside of Moodle. Using the method outlined above ensures that your students are correctly enrolled in your Echo360 sectionsto the corresponding Echo360 sections, as we have an integration in place that ensures the enrolment happens once the student clicks on the Moodle Activity.

To read about the pedagogical rationale behind recording lectures, Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights, and to get further information, please go to our https://lse.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LREG page on the Teaching and Technology hub under Tools@LSE.