Monday, February 09, 2009

Multimedia Plugins in Moodle

There are two ways to display for playback audio and video files in a Moodle activity or quiz or test item.

1) Embed using the HTML code

Use the Moodle Editor; first toggle the HTML Source (using the < > button). Now you can paste in the embed code (snippet of HTML code that most sites give (but not always).

The Google video above was pasted into this blog entry using a snippet of HTML code (embed code).

2) In some cases, the file you want to play is one you have offline. It's not available online.
a) First, upload it into the FILES area of your Moodle site.
Note: Many media file types are supported (See the Moodle Docs page below to find out which ones do work). There was a video tutorial on how to do that above:

b) Then copy the full URL of that file once it has been uploaded into your FILES area.

c) Insert the HREF code (like the one below) for this multimedia file into your text.
BE SURE TO SWITCH to < > (Toggle HTML Source). Change (paste over to replace) the "filepath.com" to the URL of the file that you copied in step b.

Sample < href = " filepathname.com "> Media File Link < / a >
(remove excess spaces -- see Moodle Docs link just below for a visual model to imitate)

d) Be sure to change the full filepathname ("URL between the quotes"), and also give it an understandable label (replace: Media File Link).

For more detailed info, see:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Multimedia_plugins

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