Picmonic App Instruction Manual for Moodle  

Faculty: Creating Assignments with Picmonic Content 2 

Step 1) Create an Assignment with the Picmonic Tool 2 

Step 2) Add Picmonic Content to an Assignment 3 

Templates for the Lesson Details: 4 

For an individual Picmonic (versus an entire content set or course): 4 

For a Picmonic Quiz: 5 

Step 3) See results in the Grade Book 5 

Students: Learning Picmonic content in Moodle 6 

Step 1: The Learning Experience 6 

If an individual Picmonic Lesson (Video + Quiz) is included in the Assignment: 7 

Picmonic Lessons will start playing the short mnemonic video automatically. First the educational audio track, then the story. On average, these videos are about 3 minutes long. 7 

When the videos end, a quiz will begin. 7 

The Picmonic Quiz: 8 

Step 2: Student visibility in the Grade Book 11 

Free vs Premium Access 11 

Faculty 11 

Students 11 

Accessibility 13 

Security 13 

Contact Us 14 

Installing the Picmonic App in Moodle 15 

 To Install the Picmonic App in Moodle for the first time, please CLICK HERE.  If you use a different LMS, instructions are here:  

● Picmonic App Instruction Manual for Canvas LMS ● Picmonic App Instruction Manual for Blackboard LMS ● Picmonic App Instruction Manual for D2L Brightspace LMS 

    

Faculty: Creating Assignments with Picmonic Content  To create an assignment with the Picmonic tool you will go through the following steps:  

Step 1) Create an Assignment with the Picmonic Tool Step 2) Add Picmonic Content to an Assignment Step 3) See results in the Grade Book 

Step 1) Create an Assignment with the Picmonic Tool 

Within your course, select “Add an Activity or Resource”, then select External Tool,  

 

 

Step 2) Add Picmonic Content to an Assignment 

You can either Search for content or Browse through the Picmonic Library to choose a Picmonic Lesson (video + quiz) or a Picmonic Quiz (covering a set of content).   If you choose to embed a Quiz, you can choose how many quiz questions to assign. The questions will be selected randomly from within that set of content each time a student opens the assignment.   Note: the average student takes 10 to 15 seconds per quiz question, we recommend assigning quizzes between 20 and 50 questions. Every student can do 20 Picmonic quiz questions a day for free forever.  

 

Templates for the Lesson Details: 

In the next step you will choose a Lesson or Quiz to include, so you can come back to this if you want.  

For an individual Picmonic (versus an entire content set or course):  

Assignment Name: Picmonic Lesson: ______________ Assignment Details: This assignment is one short Picmonic Video and Quiz. Watch the Educational and Story audio tracks, then take the Quiz. During the quiz, you can replay the video if necessary. You may redo this assignment as many times as you want before the due date, but only your most recent quiz score will count towards your grade. (if you are using the Moodle Mobile App, click the Submission tab, then “Launch External Tool”) 

For a Picmonic Quiz:  

Assignment Name: Picmonic Quiz: ______________ Assignment Details: This assignment is a Picmonic Quiz of up to 20 questions.    You have unlimited time to take this quiz and can retake it as many times as you want before the due date, but only your most recent score will count towards your grade. If you get a question wrong, play the short video to help you better remember the concept. (if you are using the Moodle Mobile App, click the Submission tab, then “Launch External Tool”) 

Step 3) See results in the Grade Book 

*screenshots not available  

   

Students: Learning Picmonic content in Moodle 

Step 1: The Learning Experience 

The first time a student accesses Picmonic through Moodle they can: 1. Connect an existing Picmonic account (such as if they already use Picmonic website or mobile 

apps, to keep their learning history synced with their Daily Review Quiz) 2. Create a new Picmonic account 

 Subsequent times they access Picmonic through Moodle they will be auto-logged in. 

 

   

If an individual Picmonic Lesson (Video + Quiz) is included in the Assignment: 

Picmonic Lessons will start playing the short mnemonic video automatically. First the educational audio track, then the story. On average, these videos are about 3 minutes long. 

  When the videos end, a quiz will begin. 

 

The Picmonic Quiz: *Screenshots of a Quiz on a set of content included in an assignment, a similar experience to the quiz after video play. 

  

 

  

Step 2: Student visibility in the Grade Book 

*screenshots not available  

Free vs Premium Access  

Faculty 

As a show of appreciation for all you do, faculty members receive 100% FREE Picmonic Premium accounts!  To get your free premium access, please go to picmonic.com/educators and click Join for Free in the top right to begin the registration process. After the form for name, email, and password, you’ll be asked to input a URL to your faculty webpage or LinkedIn so that we can verify your faculty status, please be sure to include the “http://” in the URL. You will immediately have temporary access and your account should be fully updated within a few days. 

Students 

With a Picmonic Free account students get daily access to 1 Picmonic and 20 Quiz questions. 100% free, every day, forever! They also get access to 1 round of the Daily Quiz with Spaced Repetition, but this feature is only available on Picmonic.com or Picmonic mobile apps.   For unlimited access to all content and features Picmonic has to offer, students can upgrade to Picmonic Premium for an affordable price that varies by type of program: picmonic.com/pricing     

The Quiz Results screen showing a student’s remaining free access for the day:  

  The Quiz Results screen once a student has just used up their free access for the day:  

     

When out of free access for the day and attempting to launch a Picmonic Lesson: 

  

Accessibility  Picmonic meets general ADA standards and is designed to be accessible for all learners, including those with disabilities. Picmonic has created a culture that considers those with differing learning and access needs from the outset. The Picmonic platform was built using the most modern HTML and CSS technologies and is committed to WCAG 2.0 (A/AA/AAA), SECTION 508 and similar accessibility standards and requirements. The Picmonic interface leverages rem sizing for fonts enabling users to zoom on their browser window. You can enlarge the screen by clicking “Command” and “+” (on Mac) or “Ctrl” and “+” (on PC). If you have additional circumstances to address, please contact us at support@picmonic.com and we will be happy to provide the best available solutions. 

Security  To ensure the privacy and security of your data, Picmonic uses HTTPS for all communication and encrypts all inbound and outbound traffic using 128-bit TLS/SSL. All Picmonic user data is stored in highly stable, secure data servers at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Picmonic data is backed up redundantly (every day). In case of emergency or disaster, data is recovered from AWS distributed location server backups. The Picmonic LTI API uses the industry-standard OAuth2 protocol, which provides secure access to Picmonic data while preventing direct access to Picmonic databases. Personal information is never shared with or sold to third parties (see Picmonic Privacy Policy). 

Contact Us If you have additional questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at educators@picmonic.com.   If you have feedback or suggestions on how we can improve this instruction manual or the Picmonic Moodle app, please let us know!  Thank you and good luck!  

The Picmonic Team     

Installing the Picmonic App in Moodle To install, a Moodle administrator should go to Site Admin > Advanced Features > Plugins > Activity Modules > External Tool  

  Click Manage Tools  

 In the Add Tool, copy/paste the Tool URL: https://www.picmonic.com/login/lti/configuration  

 Then edit the tool’s configuration to verify everything is set up correctly:  

  Tool URL: https://www.picmonic.com/login/lti Content Selection URL: https://www.picmonic.com/login/lti/select   

Icon URL: https://cdn.picmonic.com/cloud_data/pr/assets/img/home/icon-16x16.png  Consumer Key & Shared Secret: sent in email -- if you have not received these, please fill out this form https://picmonic.typeform.com/to/FU91Yd or contact educators@picmonic.com  

 

 The tool should be set up and you’re ready to create your first assignment with Picmonic content!  

If you are setting this up by request of a faculty member, please reply-all to the email from them and let them know the app is installed and ready to use.   If you have additional questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at educators@picmonic.com.   If you have feedback or suggestions on how we can improve this instruction manual or the Picmonic Moodle app, please let us know!  Thank you and good luck!  The Picmonic Team