Moodle 3.8 - 18 Label | What is a Label in Moodle
Moodle 3.8 - 18 Label | What is a Label in Moodle
Label : display sound and video files. It's
easy in Moodle to display sound files
like mp3s, video files like mp4 or
externally hosted files such as on
YouTube. With the multimedia filter
enabled these files display in their own
player as we can see in this History
course where the teacher has uploaded an
mp3 file of the course objectives and if
we scroll down we see she's embedded a
YouTube video directly on the course
page. If you have media files of your own
the easiest way to embed them is by drag
and drop. Our teacher here turns on the
editing, scrolls to where she wants the
file and drags it from her desktop. She
can either display it as a clickable
link or add it directly to the course
page in a label.
Let's go back to our teacher Sam's
course to explore this more. You can
display sound and video files anywhere
there is a text editor
so for example we could do it in a
section summary or in a page resource
but we are going to use what Moodle
calls a label, so we turn the editing
on, and then
in the section we want our media file, we
click add an activity or resource and
then scroll down to label. Clicking label
once will display information on the
right-hand pane and clicking it twice
will take us straight into our label to
start editing it, so let's add an mp3
sound file of the course objectives. When
we've added our text we click the media
icon and choose audio and then browse
repositories to find or upload the mp3
sound file.
Note that other options are available too but we'll
look at those shortly.
When we click Insert media the file
doesn't yet display in its player. We'll
only see it once we click Save and
return to course and here it is.
Now let's see two ways of adding YouTube
videos. Again we go to Add an activity or
resource and add a label
and this time when we click the media
icon we choose video. We can either paste
in the URL of our YouTube video or
browse the repositories and go to
YouTube videos which our administrator
has enabled. There are various criteria
we can search from. We type in a key term -
let's use French alphabet rap - and then
when we click the search button YouTube
presents us with some possible videos to
choose from and we simply click the one
we want and select it. Other options here
allow us to specify a size for our video
upload a thumbnail image and even add
our own captions and subtitles in
different languages if we want to, and
again when we click Insert media we
don't yet see the embedded YouTube video
until we save and return to course. And
we don't need to know any code to be
able to do this. However if you have
several videos it's better to display
them in a page resource where students
can click to go to the video rather than
having a number of videos directly on
your course page. If you already know the
URL of your YouTube video here's a quick
way of embedding it into a page. Again we
click add an Activity or resource and
choose Page
and then we simply paste the URL of the
YouTube video directly onto the page and
save.
Note that it displays immediately in a
player but if you don't see it displayed
in a player, check your filter settings.
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