valeriy67/moodle-mod_meet

Univates integration of Google Meet for Moodle. This is an Activity Module for meeting administration.

Meet Activity Module for Moodle

Google Meet is a real-time meeting service service developed by Google. This module integrates its funcionalities with Moodle.

With the latest version of this plugin, you can:

• Create Meet activities from any course, that will create an event in the owner's calendar and invite everyone in the course, attatching a Meet call to it;
• Specify join open/close times that will appear in Moodle calendar
• Launch Meet in its own tab;
• Record and playback those recordings from Moodle (only available if the recording is saved in Google Drive);
• View reports of the meetings with its participants, join time, left time, call duration and attendance list (requires a G Suite account with reporting capabilities);

Prerequisites

• A Moodle wesite with HTTPS enabled;
• A G Suite account to manage events (optionally with reporting capabilities);
• A G Suite Admin account to set permissions;
• A Google Cloud Platform account;
• A Google Cloud Platform project;

Set-up

Creating a service account

Open your Google Cloud Platform project and follow the steps:

1. In the Library, enable the following scopes:

Google Calendar API
Google Drive API
Admin SDK

2. Configure the OAuth consent screen with user type as Internal;
3. Add your domain to the Domain verification list (you may need to configure it in the Search Console first);
4. In the Credentials area, create a Service Account, setting up the name and the role of Project Manager;
5. Go to Service Accounts and edit the created account. Toggle the Show domain-wide delegation and check that checkbox. Don't forget to save it;
6. Go back to Service Accounts and create a key with JSON format. Warning: keep this file safe and sound; you cannot get it back;
7. Copy the Client ID for that Service Account.

Delegating domain-wide authority

Go to your G Suite domain's Admin Console and follow the steps:

1. Select Security, then Advanced settings and Manage API client access;
2. In Client name field, enter the Client ID you've copied earlier;
3. In One or More API Scopes, enter the following scopes:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.reports.audit.readonly **(optional)**

4. Finally, click the Authorize button.

Creating a calendar

Go to Google Calendar and create a new calendar. Edit it's configuration and copy the Calendar ID.

Configuring the Meet Module

After downloading and installing the module, we neet to configure it.

1. In Credentials file, upload the Service Account JSON credentials file generated earlier;
2. In Calendar Owner E-mail, set the email of the owner of the calendar created earlier;
3. In Calendar ID, set the calendar ID that you've copied earlier;
4. In Enable reports set whether the reports will be available or not (requires a G Suite account with reporting capabilities);
5. Dont forget to save the configuration.