Course Management 

Course Setup   Adding Audio & Video

Moodle allows you to embed rich media into an activity you create within your course when      

using the HTML editor. Your Moodle administrator should enable the Multimedia plug in  Filter  

setting (see Administration section of manual)  in  advance.  Examples  of  media  player  files           

supported within Moodle include: 

     Flash 

     Windows Media 

     QuickTime 

     MP3 

How to add a media resource: 

Step 1: Create an instance of an activity on the course home page. As an example we will create an 

 Assignment  called The Interview (Fig. 40). Complete all properties for this activity. In the example we have 

selected that this will be an assignment requiring the student to upload their work online (see page 16), entered 

a Grade value and Due date.  

Step 

2: 

We 

have 

described 

the              

assignment  and  added  a  link  to  a           

Windows Media video file, entering the text 

 Review this video  for our link. Linking to a 

resource stored in the Files area of the 

course is easy. Select the URL link button 

on the HTML editor and locate a file by 

using the Browse button (Fig. 41) on the 

Insert a Link screen. Our resource 

(interview.wmv) is stored within the course 

Files area (Fig. 42). 

Step 3: Click  Save changes  when you 

have completed creating the activity. The 

results (Fig. 43) will display in the browser 

as your students will the assignment. 

Embed audio narration (MP3) files into a Quiz  

or Lesson, and find other ways to enrich course  

activities using multimedia resources. 

Fig. 40 

Fig. 41 

Fig. 43 

Moodle has built in media filters for Flash, Windows Media 

Player, QuickTime and MP3 files. Embedding these resources in 

an activity using the HTML editor displays the file, with its control 

Fig. 42 

features, with the page you create.  

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