Adding the Webex Activity to your Course

Owned by Christos Savva
Last updated: Apr 08, 2020 by Distance Learning (LMS) (Unlicensed)
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This guide only applies to Face-to-Face courses.

Before booking your first session, please ensure that you have verified your Webex account. Instructions to do so can be found here: How to Activate your Webex Account

This guide describes how to create Webex sessions directly from Moodle.

Instructions

You only need to add this activity ONCE for each course. All sessions for the course will be listed under this activity.

  1. Visit the UNIC Moodle site (https://courses.unic.ac.cy/) and log in to your account.

  2. Open the course you want to create a Webex session for. Click the settings gear located at the upper-right corner of the course page and click Turn editing on.

  3. At the bottom of the General Course Information area click Add an activity or resource. You will be presented with a list of all the possible Activities and Resources you can add to the course. Locate and select Webex under Activities and click Add.

     

  4. The activity setting page will load. Provide the activity a name, this will be visible on the course page, e.g. Webex Sessions. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and display.

  5. The activity will load after a moment. Under the Setup tab select Virtual Meetings under the Choose your features section the click Apply.

     

  6. A Virtual Meetings tab will become available in the activity, click this. Follow this by clicking New Meeting.

     

  7. The first time clicking New Meeting will prompt you to login to the Webex service. Click Sign in to Webex Meetings.

     

  8. Enter your your Webex credentials and click Sign in.

The activity is now ready to be used! Visit this guide to learn how to create sessions in your course: https://unicit.atlassian.net/wiki/x/YoCpYQ

 

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