Vimeo Video page is a full integration of Moodle system with your Vimeo account. After installing the plugin and integrating your Vimeo account, your Moodle system will generate a new folder in Vimeo for every course you open with your Moodle system.
The plugin will generate a Video page for every course and upload the video file to Vimeo you will be able to see it immediately on your Moodle video page.
This guide will show you how to open a new Vimeo account, create an App and install and integrate your new Vimeo for Moodle plugin.
How use the plugin:
Step 1: Enable video page
After your plugin is installed and connected to your Vimeo account, in your course page settings you will find options to enable the video page for the course
“display Video Gallery” – Checkmark “yes”.
Step 2: How can upload videos to the page
Admins can upload Videos from the Moodle video page. there is an option to allow teachers and students to upload videos to the page as well. by checking the students and/or teachers checkbox in the course settings page you allow the users in the course to upload videos as well.
Step 3: Visit the Video page & upload videos from Moodle
go to your course page > options button > Vimeo video list. you will be directed to the course Video page. the page at first will not have any videos on it. There are 2 options for uploading videos to the page:
A. directly from moodle – on the page you will find the uploading button. Click on it will open a bar for choosing a file from your computer. The video will be uploaded to your Vimeo account and presented on the Video page.
Step 4: Video upload from Vimeo
At your Vimeo account on the “My Videos” page, you will have new folders with your course ID. uploading a video to the folder will present the Video on the moodle video page.
Note: by changing the name of the folder from the Vimeo or by changing the course ID in the Moodle settings page you will disconnect the course from the Vimeo folder. also if you open a new folder in Vimeo with some course ID, the video content in the Vimeo folder will be presented on the course Vimeo page.
Congratulations!! You now know how to use the Vimeo Video page!!
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