Admins and Teachers: How to setup ScreenPal with Moodle

The ScreenPal LTI screen recorder integrates with many learning management systems.  This article will help with the setup and use of our LTI app within the Moodle LMS for administrators and teachers.

You can read more in our blog article about ScreenPal and the Moodle LMS or you can watch a video tutorial on Moodle LTI setup.

Table of Contents

• Teachers can add ScreenPal to their Courses
  
• To add the free LTI app as a Moodle admin
  
• Enable Team Deluxe and Team Premier Plans with the Consumer Key
  
• FAQ
  

Use of the LTI app is compatible with all plans; Free, Deluxe, and Premier.

Teachers can add ScreenPal to their Courses

If you are a teacher, you can use the ScreenPal LTI app with Moodle LMS without an admin.  Read the instructions below or watch a video on how teachers can add the LTI app.

First, choose a course and go to the upper right and select the Settings Cog icon. Select Turn editing on.

Find a course module and click on Add an activity or resource.

If your admin has already configured ScreenPal, then you may find the LTI plugin listed in the Activities Menu. Select it and click Add.

On the activities menu, select External Tool and click Add.

A form appears.  Under General, please fill out the following:

1. For Activity Name, enter ScreenPal.
   
2. For Tool URL, enter https://screenpal.com/lti/xml
   
3. Lastly, click Save and return to course.
   

All done!  As a teacher, you can now add recordings to courses.  Here are additional instructions to add screen recordings, channels, or a ScreenPal screen recorder that your students can submit their own recordings with.

To add the free LTI app as a Moodle admin.

Login to your Moodle instance as an admin.  Click on Site Administration, then Plugins. 

Under Add Tool, input the following URL into the Tool URL field: https://screenpal.com/lti/xml and click Add.

Note: You can ignore the Consumer Key and Shared Secret fields for now unless you would like to enable the Deluxe or Premier features for your account.  See later in this article for more information on the Consumer Key. 

To use the free version of the ScreenPal LTI, leave the Consumer Key and Shared secret blank and click Save Changes.

To easily enable teachers to add ScreenPal to their activities, click the settings cog shown below.

Scroll down to Tool configuration usage.  From the drop-down menu, select Show in activity chooser as a preconfigured tool.

You're done!  Now teachers can embed their screen recordings directly into their activities within Moodle LMS.

Enable Team Deluxe and Team Premier Plans with the Consumer Key

You can use the LTI App for your team to access the Deluxe Plan tools (screen recorder and video editor) and the Premier Plan tools with the advanced hosting features (embedding a video channel, adding a screen recorder button for student assignments, etc.)

In order for a Team Plan user to access the features of a Deluxe or Premier Plan, the admin for the plan will need to configure the LTI App with a private consumer key and secret.

First, login to ScreenPal with your Admin account and go to the Integrations area.  

 

Make sure the LTI plugin is enabled (click the check box next to Use Pro Recorder in your LMS), and find the Key and Secret values in the applicable fields.  Copy each value. We will take these values back to the Moodle configuration screen.  

These values are unique to your team account, and should not be shared with anyone outside of your team.

Once you've captured these values, enter them into the Moodle admin interface at this step above.  Complete the final steps in the admin interface and you will have enabled additional Deluxe or Premier functionality for your ScreenPal LTI app.

FAQ

When launching the ScreenPal team application, why am I unable to use the video editor?

First, check to make sure your team account is upgraded to a Deluxe or Premier plan.  Access to the video editor is only included within these plans.

If you have a Deluxe or Premier account, check your Moodle app settings (or ask your Moodle Administrator to check/configure) to make sure you have the consumer key and secret added in, as in the instructions above.