Poodll

Summary

Poodll is a tool that allows you to insert a variety of multimedia pieces directly into Moodle. The most common of these would be Moodle assignments that require either an audio or video submission and one-off audio or video pieces that are course specific. Poodll is not recommended for the creation of course lectures or other media that you hope to reuse in future courses.

Details

Poodll can be utilized for assignments and anywhere there is a text editor. Common text editors in Moodle are forums, pages, and labels. The use of Poodll within forums would be a great replacement to Flipgrid. 

Assignments

When creating an assignment, there is a new option of adding an "Online Poodll" submission in addition to the preexisting "File Submissions" and "Online Text". The Poodll Assignment Submission allows students to submit an audio or video file that is created inside of Moodle.

To use the Poodll Assignment submission:

1. Create an assignment in Moodle
2. In "Submission Type" you will need to check "Online Poodll"
   1. New options appear in the "Submission Type" section
      1. Poodll Rec. Type
         1. Video Recorder
         2. Audio Recorder
      2. Poodll Rec. Time Limit 

      1. Default is 0 minutes which give unlimited recording time

      2. If you set this to a certain value the students will get a countdown timer as they are doing their recording

      3. Current Submission
         1. This is what the student will see when they are done recording
         2. You can leave this at the default setting
      4. Active
         1. Set this to yes
         2. Setting to no will not allow future submissions
3. Adjust other assignment settings as needed

Forums

When creating a forum, there are no additional settings that you need to set. Poodll is now built in to every forum in Moodle. The most important part is to instruct students to do an audio, video, or text response. When instructing to do a video response, please include the link to this confluence article. This confluence article was built for the student perspective, so they understand how Poodll works when submitting a video forum response. I encourage you to check out this article for yourself as well. You can follow those instructions as well to create a forum post.

Pages and Labels

Anywhere in Moodle where you are using the text editor (pages, labels) you have access to a number of Poodll tools. Within the toolbar is a series of Poodll icons. These icons give you access to a Poodll audio recorder, a Poodll video recorder, and a Poodll whiteboard.

To use the Poodll tools in the text editor toolbar look for the Poodll icon  -  - (these icons may end up in the advanced toolbar accessible by selecting the down arrow). 

The microphone icon is the audio recorder. The camera icon is the video recorder. The pencil icon is the whiteboard. 

1. Audio recorder
1. Click on the microphone icon
2. Select the microphone you wish to use for recording by clicking on the gear icon in the lower right hand corner
3. Click “Record” and record your audio
4. Click “Stop” to end the recording and your recording will automatically be uploaded 
5. Click “Insert” and the audio link will be placed in text box
6. You can then add additional items in the text editor or hit save
2. Video recorder
1. Click on the camera icon
2. Select the microphone/webcam you wish to use for recording by clicking on the gear icon in the lower right hand corner
3. Click “Record” and record your video
4. Click “Stop” to stop the recording and your recording will automatically be uploaded 
5. Click “Insert” and the video link will be placed in text box
6. You can then add additional items in the text editor or hit save
3. Whiteboard
1. Click the pencil icon
2. Use the whiteboard tools to create your whiteboard
3. The whiteboard is automatically saved every few seconds
4. Click “Insert” and your whiteboard will be inserted into the text box
5. You can then add additional items in the text editor or hit save