Virtual Classroom is a Moodle plugin that lets you bring online teaching to life. It’s a free, open source plugin that allows teachers to visually create lessons with interactive content and share them with the world in an easy way.
Finding the right plugin for Moodle is a complicated process, and often a long process. In this article, I will show you how to install plugin that allows you to create virtual classroom and manage it through the sidebar
This Moodle plug-in should be used as a tool for technical simplification of the educational process.
Moodle Plugin for Virtual Classroom
Getting Moodle Virtual Classroom Plugin Credentials
Log in at vedamo.com. If you do not already have a VEDAMO account, you can create one here and get a free 30-day trial or purchase the Premium plan here.
Select the Integrations menu.
Select Moodle. This will take you to the Integration with Moodle page.
Click on the Enable LTI integration button. This will generate a table with three rows: Consumer Key, Shared Secret, and Launch URL. You will need them to integrate the Virtual Classroom in Moodle.
Log in to Moodle.
Select the Site Administration.
Select Plugins.
Select External Tool in Activity Modules.
In External Tool select Manage Tools.
Select Configure a Tool Manually.
In the next window:
Tool Name field – enter VEDAMO Virtual Classroom.
Tool URL field – enter the Config URL from the preceding table.
Consumer Key field – enter the Consumer Key from the preceding table.
Shared Secret field – enter the Shared Secret from the preceding table (your administrator can contact VEDAMO at support@vedamo.com for your Key and Secret).
From the Default Launch Container dropdown menu select Embed.
Click on Save Changes to add the app to the system.
Moodle is one of the most popular learning management systems among online educators and trainers. It is used across the world for various online teaching methods such as blended learning, distance learning, flipped learning, etc. While creating your online course platform on Moodle is quite easy, the lack of a live class functionality stops the user from having live classroom sessions in their online courses. Self-paced courses have their own sets of benefits, but real-time video sessions with the students lend a competitive edge to your online teaching initiatives.
WizIQ Moodle virtual classroom plugin lets you add a live classroom function to your already existing Moodle website. In addition to getting a live class feature in your website, you also don’t have to face the hassle of moving your entire course to a different LMS that supports live classes – integrate the plugin to your website, and you are good to go. What’s more? The plugin is available for the latest Moodle versions.
Here’s a quick look at the benefits you get with the WizIQ Virtual Classroom plugin:
Single Sign-on: Signing in to your Moodle website gives you the access of the live class feature as well without the need for a separate sign-in.
Quick Setup: The simple interface of the platform lets you create and schedule a live class within minutes
eLearning tools and features: Tools such as online whiteboard, live chat, live poll, and real-time content and screen sharing make running live classes in WizIQ a seamless experience
High-quality Output: WizIQ Virtual Classroom is built on WebRTC, and offers multi-bitrate streaming, high-quality audio-video streaming, and a 5-way screen layout
Class Recording: Live classes are recorded and can be shared with others after the session
Detailed Reports: Instructors get automated reports on attendance, time spent in class, in time, out time, etc. helping them analyze the student performance
Installation Steps
We have covered the steps that you need to take to integrate the WizIQ Virtual Classroom plugin to your Moodle website. Take a look:
Step 1
Go to wiziq.com/moodle/ and submit your details in the form.
Step 2
Upon clicking ‘Download Plugin’, you will be redirected to your WizIQ Academy. Set your Academy password here.
Once you are in your Academy, please complete the onboarding steps.
Step 3
Once you land on the Academy homepage, click the ‘Menu’ button at top left to open the side-pan. Click your name at the lower end of the side pan and select ‘Administrator’.
Click the ‘Academy Settings’
Click the ‘APIs and Plugins’
Click the ‘Download Plugins’ option (Please take note of the ‘Access Key’ and ‘Secret Key’ fields on this page as you will require these on Step 7).
Step 4
Upon clicking ‘Download Plugins’, you will be redirected to WizIQ’s plugin download page.
Click the ‘Download your plugin’ field and select ‘Moodle’ from the drop-down list.
Save the Virtual Classroom plugin zip file.
Step 5
Go to your Moodle website and log in as Administrator.
Click the ‘Site Administration’ option at the left side of the page.
Click ‘Plugins’ and then click ‘Install Plugins’.
Step 6
Click the ‘Install plugin from the zip file’
Select the zip file you downloaded on Step 4 and install it.
After installation, click the ‘Upgrade Moodle Database Now’ button to upgrade the plugin.
Step 7
Upon installation, you will be redirected to the ‘New settings – wiziq’
Copy the ‘Access Key’ and ‘Secret Access’ Key from WizIQ Academyà Settingsà APIs and Plugins (See Step 3) and save the changes.
Your WizIQ Virtual Classroom plugin for Moodle is integrated to your Moodle website.
Step 8
Go into any of the courses in your Moodle website and click ‘Turn Editing On’.
Click ‘Add an activity or resource’.
Select ‘WizIQ Live Class’.
Fill up the class-related details to set up your live class.
That’s it!