This book offers four main ways of presenting listening material. The introduction to Chapter 4, Speaking Activities offers additional information on the pros and cons of these ways. Chapter 2, Getting Started with Moodle provides more information about all the players and programs mentioned below.
Built-in Flash player: Recordings have to be made on an external recording program, such as Audacity. You need to do some simple editing of the HTML code on your pages, but it doesn't require any add-on modules and the player fits neatly into the page:
The player usefully includes a pause facility.
Mediacenter: This podcast player requires the add-on Inwicast module. It allows you to include high-quality recordings whose length is limited only by the maximum upload settings as set in the administration panel. The player is again simple and attractive:
There is a full example of it in Chapter 4, Speaking Activities, Activity 5. Mediacenter helps you organize recordings in one place. Recordings...