Playing audio

There are three ways to include audio in Moodle, just as there are three ways to include video:

1. Include a link to the audio file in your course front page.

2. Embed the audio file in a Moodle web page—which, just as with video, requires multimedia filters to be enabled by your administrator.

3. Upload the audio to an audio sharing website and stream the file from there.

   Tip

   You have possibly found, as you experimented with including videos in your course, that not all school and college computers, for understandable reasons, have got audio enabled (some schools even go so far as to snip the wires to the headphone socket). As you work through the following guide to embedding audio, remember that if there isn't any sound coming out of the speaker holes or the headphone socket speak to your technician or help desk. That your computer is silent may well be intentional.

Choosing an audio file format

Always convert to one of the common audio file formats. As with video file formats (see the...