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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Course Conversion
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 5. Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content

In the previous chapter, we saw how easy it is to add static content into your course. That's great for a start, but I've also got lots of multimedia content I want to include. For instance, I've got lots of audio and video files—many of them on file sharing websites such as YouTube.

Let's build on what we learned in Chapter 3 (Add Documents and Handouts) and get to grips with the best ways of importing sound and vision into our courses. In this chapter, you will:

  • Import audio and video into your course

  • Experience the different ways Moodle plays your multimedia files, and appreciate the pros and cons of each

  • Embed videos from other websites, such as YouTube and TeacherTube

  • Create a photo montage using Slide.com

Let's make a start by building on our work in Chapter 3. In that chapter, we uploaded our documents and handouts to our new Moodle course. We start this chapter by creating links from our course main page directly to external websites...