Assignment submissions : Online audio recording
Paul NichollsFinally putting an end to the need for a streaming server (or a Java applet) to allow students to record audio clips for Moodle assignments, the Online Audio Recording assignment uses Flash (10.1+) to record audio from a microphone, convert it to MP3 format and upload it to Moodle via HTTP POST.
INSTALLATION:
- Place the "onlineaudio" directory within your_moodle_install/mod/assign/submission/
- Visit the admin notifications page and complete the installation
- Done!
USAGE (teacher):
- As a teacher, create (or edit) an assignment
- Under "Submission settings", set "Online audio recording" to "Yes" and choose the maximum number of recordings
- Save the assignment
USAGE (student):
- In the assignment submission, find the "Online audio recording" section
- If you haven't used it before, you may need to allow access to your microphone
- Click the red circle button to begin recording
- Click the blue square button (or the red circle button again) to stop recording
- Enter a file name and click "Save"
- Wait for it to state that it's "Ready to upload" and click the "Upload" button
Online Audio Recording (assignment type for old mod_assignment)
Record Audio (repository plugin - record audio anywhere you can upload a file!)
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Contributors
Do you know a workaround - or any idea?
Thanks a lot!
PS: again i created a german language file for the 2.3 Online audio recording: http://download.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/media/HRZ/elc/Moodle/assignsubmission_onlineaudio.php
It could be integrated in the next version...
Klaus
-Al
The two can coexist - and, in fact, it might be necessary to have both in order to successfully migrate existing questions from the old plugin to the new one (I'm not sure, as I haven't tried doing it without having both installed).
-Paul
However, in my opinion the file naming step is redundant and it would be good if we could get rid of this step.
Is the flash recorder (recorder.swf) open source itself? If I could have access to its source code I might try to modify it in my desired way.
Thanks again
One thing I note. On 2.3, the package goes into mod/assignment/type, but on 2.5.1 it goes into mod/assign/submission ???
I'm presuming that this isn't a typo or some such.
Now, following the instructions, I placed it in the correct directory. Enabled it and made it visible. However, although I can see it listed in File Picker, there is no way I can get it to display on the page so a student can use it. It displays in the File Picker window, where you can use it, but not embed it into a page as a piece of Moodle Media.
I'm sure 2.5.1 (20131207) has changes that are affecting these things, because it all worked fine until I did that last upgrade to (20131207)
Thanks. Robert
The instructions for this are actually clear.
USAGE (teacher):
- As a teacher, create (or edit) an assignment
- Under "Submission settings", set "Online audio recording" to "Yes" and choose the maximum number of recordings
- Save the assignment
and as such, it does it. Creates the widget on the page. and appears to work. Dam. It does work. Uploads and everything.
Maybe I"ve been at this too long.
I thought the original one sat on the page as a widget, that you could use to practice with. Recording and playing back until you were ready to upload. As a piece of Moodle Media. This one is actually an Assignment, as it says. hmmm
Sorry if I'm confusing you. - Robert
Yes, this works with Chrome - but you have to allow the microphone access twice. In addition to the Flash Player request (as per other browsers), Chrome will put a stealthy grey bar across the top of the page asking for access (or, if it has remembered a denial, a small icon at the right-hand side of the address bar, through which you can grant permission).
This is a reasonably recent change in Chrome to address a security issue. Unfortunately, its current implementation means that if you don't grant permission via the Chrome request, Flash Player thinks it has access but will not actually receive any audio.
-Paul
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We are using Moodle 2.5.2.