When giving listening tests, it is usually important to control the number of times a student is able to listen to a track or file. This enables us to put all students on an equal footing in regards to the test and helps conserve time. While there may be times when this is not true, nearly all tests do limit listening tasks to one or two times.
Unfortunately, there is no way of setting up the built-in Moodle MP3 player so that it plays a single time. There is, however, a way around this. We have the option of installing a different player. One player that has been developed specifically for testing in Moodle is Matt Bury's Moodle MP3 Player for Tests. It can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/moodle-mp3-player-for-tests/ and an explanation of how it is used is found at http://code.google.com/p/moodle-mp3-player-for-tests/wiki/HowToUse. It is a simple-looking player, much like the Moodle MP3 player, but with a bit more functionality...