Can someone please help me to understand how do you place an embedded object using the media filter inside a Moodle document?
The example does not show you how it is done - Wouldn't be nice if we could see how it was actually done, I mean step-by-step?
In reply to Rick Blanc
Re: How do you embed a media object - using the media filter?
由Bryan Williams發表於
Rick,
Assuming the Multimedia Plugins are activated in Administration|Configuration|Filters, you simply place a link into HTMLeditor for your resource. Moodle determines what is needed, and diplays the appropriate player. You may also what to include a text link near the resource.
Hope this is helpful,
Bryan
I do have the media filter active. An I have tried each option for the link / New Window / Same Frame / Self - I do not get the media file embedded. Have you left out the requirements for the file?
When you activate a file through a link - how do you make it embedded? My link to a flash object opens a new window. Yes, the link is embedded but not the medial file.
Again I ask for a step-by-step help from someone. If there is someone who is very knowledgeable in this topic, I would like to invite you to a NetMeeting. After I understand what to do, I will produce a full-motion tutorial with audio.
Shouldn't there be a forum for the media filter? It is such a creative area - why not?
When you activate a file through a link - how do you make it embedded? My link to a flash object opens a new window. Yes, the link is embedded but not the medial file.
Again I ask for a step-by-step help from someone. If there is someone who is very knowledgeable in this topic, I would like to invite you to a NetMeeting. After I understand what to do, I will produce a full-motion tutorial with audio.
Shouldn't there be a forum for the media filter? It is such a creative area - why not?
Step 1: Create a new Assignment in Moodle (How To Argue)
Step 2: In the HTML editor, switch to HTML Source view (<> icon), and paste the following code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>How To Argue</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFEECE">
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">
<embed width="550" height="415" src="Please">http://www.remote-learner.net/coursefiles/argonline.swf"><noembed>Please download the latest Flash player!</noembed></p>
</body>
</html>
Step 3: Click Save changes and view the results.
Alternatively, you could just put the text "How To Argue" in the HTML editor, with a link to the Flash file. Moodle would then load it in its default size (small like above). With the above code, you can control the size in which the Flash player exhibits your file. If the source file happened to be say an MP3 file, it would display the Play|Pause controls. Ditto if the file was a QuickTime of Windows Media file, (i.e. the control is displayed within the browser).
Note: in the example above, click the Flash file to advance each slide (created this is OpenOffice).
Step 4: Try not to be so abrasive in the Moodle forums, people really do help each other around here.
Hope this helps you,
Bryan
Hi Rick,
Thanks for you comments. Here attached is a step-by-step document I posted a few months back. But actually it may not answer your question--it is for putting embedded audio in a quiz. Hopefully it might apply somehow.
Sometimes it is hard to find instructions posted here and there, Probably we need more volunteers to organize the comments and post in the documentation section. Anyway, I hear a new FAQ system is on the way. So never fear!
Looks like Bryan and Amy got a little upset along the way.
No problem, you're just a to-the-point, abrasive kind of guy, right.
If you really are curious about your comments (I say sheepishly), here are some humble suggestions.... (note: I make the same mistakes)
Mistake 1; I do have the media filter active. An I have tried...
It is better to start out with profuse thank yous. Probably your helping person spent 20-30 minutes answering you when he should have been spending the time with his family or earning money for his family.
Mistake 2; Again I ask for a step-by-step help from someone.
Oh dear! Sounds like you are not satisfied with the answer.
Yes, it is frustrating, but you might ask like this.. "Sorry, Bryan, I couldn"t get it. Could you give more details...".
Mistake 3; If there is someone who is very knowledgeable in this topic...
This implies Bryan is not knowledgeable. Even if he is incredibly stupid, a few slaps in the face could be replaced with humor, like, "Oops! Thanks, I tried that Bryan, but it didn't work...".
Mistake 4; Shouldn't there be a forum for the media filter? It is such a creative area - why not?
Sounds demanding. Try, "Should we make a forum for ..." Hey, everyone here is a volunteer... (except me, for every click on the Moodle forums site, I get a dollar from XXXXX--and no, I will not tell you which company or secret governmental organization
Mistake 5; Scowling photo glaring down on me...
Get a goofy mug shot up there. I think baseball caps cut through the gruffness. WP likes wild icons and colors. Chardelle, well, she needs no gimmicks
Thanks for you comments. Here attached is a step-by-step document I posted a few months back. But actually it may not answer your question--it is for putting embedded audio in a quiz. Hopefully it might apply somehow.
Sometimes it is hard to find instructions posted here and there, Probably we need more volunteers to organize the comments and post in the documentation section. Anyway, I hear a new FAQ system is on the way. So never fear!
Looks like Bryan and Amy got a little upset along the way.
No problem, you're just a to-the-point, abrasive kind of guy, right.
If you really are curious about your comments (I say sheepishly), here are some humble suggestions.... (note: I make the same mistakes)
Mistake 1; I do have the media filter active. An I have tried...
It is better to start out with profuse thank yous. Probably your helping person spent 20-30 minutes answering you when he should have been spending the time with his family or earning money for his family.
Mistake 2; Again I ask for a step-by-step help from someone.
Oh dear! Sounds like you are not satisfied with the answer.
Yes, it is frustrating, but you might ask like this.. "Sorry, Bryan, I couldn"t get it. Could you give more details...". Mistake 3; If there is someone who is very knowledgeable in this topic...
This implies Bryan is not knowledgeable. Even if he is incredibly stupid, a few slaps in the face could be replaced with humor, like, "Oops! Thanks, I tried that Bryan, but it didn't work...".
Mistake 4; Shouldn't there be a forum for the media filter? It is such a creative area - why not?
Sounds demanding. Try, "Should we make a forum for ..." Hey, everyone here is a volunteer... (except me, for every click on the Moodle forums site, I get a dollar from XXXXX--and no, I will not tell you which company or secret governmental organization
Mistake 5; Scowling photo glaring down on me...
Get a goofy mug shot up there. I think baseball caps cut through the gruffness. WP likes wild icons and colors. Chardelle, well, she needs no gimmicks
Hi Don!
I was not able to open the file in "Open Office". Could be you are using one of the latest and greatest of the MSN office programs which OO may not be able to open.
Could you save it in WIN97 or WIN95 (WordPad) format. I would really like to read it. PDF format would also be cool as well.
Thanks in advance,
WP1
I was not able to open the file in "Open Office". Could be you are using one of the latest and greatest of the MSN office programs which OO may not be able to open.
Could you save it in WIN97 or WIN95 (WordPad) format. I would really like to read it. PDF format would also be cool as well.
Thanks in advance,
WP1
Don,
Yes, I can improve my post, and I will. Post can be made to be more caring and to communicate appreciation for those who help. I do think you have knit picked this thing to death, every element every aspect. If we were to review the thousands of post here, we could go on forever critiquing how one should post. I am happy you qualified yourself as producing similar kinds of postings.
Forum postings are usually fast and to the point with thanking the helping party - I've sent an email to Bryan Williams after he responded to my first post - thanking him for his help. I also ask if he would participate in a NetMeeting so that I may produce a tutorial.
You can read any sentence out loud and breathe into it a tone that can characterize it as grateful or ungrateful. Unfortunately, you have chosen to depict the worse possible scenarios for each sentence. I do not share your interpretation.
In my original post I asked for a step-by-step instruction. In my second posting I started the sentence with Again this, I admit, was poor choice to start a sentence. I was more instructing that I need a step-by-step instruction so that I can make a tutorial. A step-by-step process is needed when you are making a tutorial.
There is another aspect we all must consider when we try to evaluate a post, there are emails and PMs going back and forth regarding the post that is not posted. This is why I asked Bryan to answer my question - if he would help me in evaluating my post. It is more important for me to hear an evaluation from Bryan as I had sent him an email thanking him for his help and asked him to join a private NetMeeting. I will ask him this again in a private message and make any apologies if needed.
Yes, I can improve my post, and I will.
Rick
, I recognise that 
, and it saves a lot of spoiled letters. 
one tric 
in ths Moodle forum: use a lot of emoticons 
in your questions and people accept your style. 
Hi Bryan!
When I used your code I got the assignment due date at the top and some code at the bottom with not flash image in the middle, just white space.
I then removed "Please">" and the script ran fine. The corrected script is,
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>How To Argue</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFEECE">
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">
<embed width="550" height="415" src="http://www.remote-learner.net/coursefiles/argonline.swf"><noembed>Please
download the latest Flash player!</noembed></p>
</body>
</html>
I learned something today.
WP1
When I used your code I got the assignment due date at the top and some code at the bottom with not flash image in the middle, just white space.
I then removed "Please">" and the script ran fine. The corrected script is,
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>How To Argue</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFEECE">
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">
<embed width="550" height="415" src="http://www.remote-learner.net/coursefiles/argonline.swf"><noembed>Please
download the latest Flash player!</noembed></p>
</body>
</html>
I learned something today.
WP1
WP1
This was because Moodle did what it was suppose to do and inserted the Flash object into the posted code. I should have mentioned to ignore this when trying the code, as you discovered. We have to understand what a marvel the HTML editor really is; not Dreamweaver or VisualStudio, but a very complicated and cool program.
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Hi Matt!
To do this I think you need to know the "HTTP" of the image at Moodle.org as a participant. When you are the admin you get a bigger window which allows for uploading an image on the spot and then embedding it into the HTML text area.
I have never been successful embedding an image by uploading it as a user. The image always goes to the bottom of the page unless I know or have the web address of where the image resides at Moodle or somewhere else.
If you know how to do it without having it linked to the image somewhere, please post how you did it. I am sure it will show up clearly outlined in you next updated "Teacher's Manual".
WP1
To do this I think you need to know the "HTTP" of the image at Moodle.org as a participant. When you are the admin you get a bigger window which allows for uploading an image on the spot and then embedding it into the HTML text area.
I have never been successful embedding an image by uploading it as a user. The image always goes to the bottom of the page unless I know or have the web address of where the image resides at Moodle or somewhere else.
If you know how to do it without having it linked to the image somewhere, please post how you did it. I am sure it will show up clearly outlined in you next updated "Teacher's Manual".
WP1
See what you think - I came up with a method that is a little involoved, but does work when logged in as a student. No FTP required.
The document is too big to put here, so you can get if at http://www.cvcaroyals.org/~mriordan/index.htm
Hope it helps!
Good point (I had not looked at the actual URL 
). I just tried it on my site with an attachment of a jpeg, which the showed up as being on the server. I want to play with that and see if the method can be modifies using an attachment first (instead of a cut-and-paste). I'll let you know what I find. Sorry for the mistake!
In reply to Martin Dougiamas
Re: I guess you can float text around the media frame
由David Le Blanc發表於
It is not a workable solution with an attachment either. The attachment does get uploaded to the remote server, so you can grab the URL and insert the image like you would expect (with text wrapping and everything). Everything works great, except you see TWO images - one from the inserted picture and one from the attachment. If you delete the post with the attachment and try to create a new post (I tried), the image goes away (which only makes good file-space sense). So, it is not a good solution. Sounds like David's developmental stuff is the future way to go.
Although the dms module is not yet part of the standard release, it seems quite stable. In other words, this is currently a workable solution to this problem. 
The dms development project at moodle is headed by Jon Papaioannou 
(see: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=7517)
In reply to Rick Blanc
Re: How do you embed a media object - using the media filter?
由Matt Riordan發表於
Hi Everyone,
It is not for flash, but I did add a section on adding audio and video in the 1.3 manual (in the appendixes). It can be found here:
http://moodle.org/doc/
It is under the "Other Docs" link, then under "User-contributed documentation."
Hope this helps!