Enabling Moodle video and audio
Video and audio content are essential for building engaging learning experiences. Moodle supports playing various media formats as well as the recording of audio and video.
We will cover both modes: first, we will look at media players before dealing with media recorders.
Media players
Users nowadays expect to incorporate media formats in their teaching and learning content. Whether it is teachers providing videos as learning resources or learners embedding audio clips in their assignments, it is taken for granted that different media formats are supported. Your job as a Moodle administrator is to ensure that these media files are played correctly.
So how does Moodle handle media content in different formats? In simple terms, every time Moodle detects a link that points to a multimedia resource or <video>
and <audio>
HTML tags, it replaces them with an appropriate media player code. A multimedia filter is used to facilitate this...