I am setting up an app for teaching the vowel sounds to 7th grade students - specifically to teach them how to discriminate the long from the short. I used audacity to create some sound files -WAV- then imported them into Moodle. When I was designing the lesson and when I previewed, I could hear the audio. When I actually tried to take the quiz, there was no sound. How do I begin to trouble shoot this?
Hi Tom,
Your web browser may not be able to play WAV files. The most widely used & supported audio file format is MP3. MP3 files are also a lot smaller & so download to students' computers/mobile devices much faster.
BTW, did you know that you can slow down speech with Audacity? This makes phonemes easier to hear & discriminate. I give students a normal speed version & a reduced tempo version side by side so they can listen to both. See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_tempo.html
I hope this helps!
Matt
Your web browser may not be able to play WAV files. The most widely used & supported audio file format is MP3. MP3 files are also a lot smaller & so download to students' computers/mobile devices much faster.
BTW, did you know that you can slow down speech with Audacity? This makes phonemes easier to hear & discriminate. I give students a normal speed version & a reduced tempo version side by side so they can listen to both. See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_tempo.html
I hope this helps!
Matt
Hi Tom,
Go back to your Audacity files and export them as Mp3's, or even Ogg files. Change the, Save as type, to Mp3. If you haven't already done so, you will have to install the Lame Mp3 encoder to be able to do this. Directions for that can be found in the Audacity Help.
Note: Depending on where you are placing the sound files, you might be able to save a lot of time and effort, by recording directly into the quiz question using the Record Audio tool in the Atto editor. It creates sound files encoded in .ogg format.
Go back to your Audacity files and export them as Mp3's, or even Ogg files. Change the, Save as type, to Mp3. If you haven't already done so, you will have to install the Lame Mp3 encoder to be able to do this. Directions for that can be found in the Audacity Help.
Note: Depending on where you are placing the sound files, you might be able to save a lot of time and effort, by recording directly into the quiz question using the Record Audio tool in the Atto editor. It creates sound files encoded in .ogg format.
Note 2: If you try to put sound recordings in Multiple Choice questions, you can add only one at a time between edits of the question. This is true for the question text area, as well as each answer text area. I would assume that other question types will work the same.
I've included a sample made right here in this forum entry using the Record Audio tool to show how easy it is.