2.9.3 Audio-visual files
You can include the following within your question:
- flash animations - files ending in .swf.
- audio - files ending in .mp3.
- video – MPEG4 (ending in .mp4) or Flash (ending in .flv) video files.
Adding audio-visual files to questions
- Within your text highlight a word or words.
- Click on the link icon.
- Browse to the a/v file on your hard-disk and upload it into your question.
- By default the link to the file will be displayed at run-time as well as the audio-video player containing the file. If you change the link to the ‘.’, character at run-time the ‘.’ will not be displayed and you will simply see a clean audiovisual player.
Adding audio-visual transcripts to questions
- Place the editor into HTML mode (so that you can see the HTML code).
- Insert
TRANSCRIPT_START:512:Name of video
...arbitrary HTML that is the content of the transcript...TRANSCRIPT_END
Once inserted into the question the transcript is included in the question. On display the student just sees a ‘display transcript’ link. Click on it and the transcript appears in situ.
Placing a static image over the video prior to playing
- Add the image to the text field in the normal way.
- Place the editor into HTML mode (so that you can see the HTML code).
- Append the following to the end of the video link ?d=
x &subtitles=empty.srt&image= and are the size of the video window - empty.srt is a placeholder. It need not exist.
should be the file name of the image that has just been uploaded.
Example:
- Save the question and try it. If all is well the initial image can now be removed.
2.9.2 Large images