Displaying Multimedia Content in Moodle

You can display a wide range of multimedia content in your edna Group:

Use the embed the code supplied from an external sources such as You Tube or Vimeo and paste it in to any content space that also supports html (click the <> toggle html button when you see the WYSIWIG editor).

See John Traver's YouTube video on the Social Bookmarking tool Diigo below

Link directly to the file from your files area by choosing to "Link to a File or Website" when you use the "add a Resource" drop down. The file will then display with the appropriate format icon and users will have to click on the link to view the item. Note this can only be done from the front page of your group not in webpages like this etc.

The example below is a screenshot of one of the Flash Videos in the Group Owners Group for illustration purposes only.

The final option is to link to the file by creating a hyperlink. Upload the file to your files area and copy the link (right click on on the file and "copy link location" or "copy shortcut"), now go back and edit the are where you want the multimedia to show and select some text. Click the "Insert Weblink" icon and paste in the video URL you copied earlier. Save the page.

See an example of an mp3 fr om Libravox.org read by Ruth Golding - again a screenshot for illustrative purposes, to see it in action go this resource in the Group Owners Group.

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)

File Formats which the edna Groups moodle multimedia filter currently supports:
Please note that the viewing of these files types may also depend on the browser and on 3rd party software, e.g. a .mov file also needs Quicktime installed to display

.mp3 = Audio File
.mov = Apple QuickTime Movie
.wmv = Windows Media Video File
.mpg = MPEG Video File
.avi = Audio Video Interleave File
.flv = Flash Video File
.ram = Real Media File
.rm = Real Media File

Tags: multimedia moodle
Posted at 02:48PM Jun 18, 2009 by Alison Hall | Comments[0]