You can incorporate audio learning activities into your courses by either uploading a .mp3 file or embedding an audio file from another platform like Dropbox.
Examples/Use Cases:
- Use audio clips to explain complex concepts.
- Provide language lessons with pronunciation guides.
- Share recorded lectures or interviews.
- Offer meditation or relaxation sessions.
- Create listening exercises for students.
In this article, we will learn how to create audio learning activities and incorporate audio files in your courses.
Create the Audio Learning Activity
1. Go to the Course outline tab of your created course.
2. Click on Add an Activity under the selected course section.
3. Click on the Audio option in the Multimedia menu.
4. Give a title to your Audio and click on Save or Save & edit to start editing immediately.
Select your Audio File
To select and insert your audio file:
1. Hover over the Audio learning activity you created and click on Settings (if you have clicked on Save and Edit in the activity creation process, skip this step).
2. You have the option to either Select the audio file you want to upload or Paste here the URL of the mp3 file you want to add.
Let's see an example of Dropbox:
Dropbox, by copying the shareable URL. You need to replace the "0" at the end of the URL with "1".
(Example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ismx7sa8cokprwf/1%29%20Week%20%231% 3A%20test.mp3?dl=1)
- Avoid using special characters (e.g., &, â, è, ü, +, -, etc.) in the titles of your uploaded audio files, as this may prevent the audio files from playing for users- It is suggested to add audio files up to 20 MB.
You can Preview the audio learning activity in the Course Player. The audio player automatically takes the color theme of your course player.
For uploaded audio from the computer, the player provides a waveform of the audio.
Note that when using a URL link, the audio player may not display the waveform.
You can also Password protect this audio learning activity for users who only have the password.
Notes:
- Users can use shortcuts in the audio files:
space = play/pause
arrow up/down = volume up/down
arrow left/right = backward 10 sec / forward 20 sec
- If the Dropbox audio link does not play on mobile devices, make sure you replace the "www.dropbox" with "dl.dropboxusercontent". So if your URL is https://www.dropbox.com/s/ismx7sa8cokprwf/1%29%20Week%20%231%3A%20test.mp3?dl=1 you should change it to https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ismx7sa8cokprwf/1%29%20Week%20%231%3A%20test.mp3?dl=1 and the audio will play.
- When uploading an audio file through the URL option, there might be a chance that the player will have the following format instead of LearnWorlds player skins:
This fallback player is displayed when external websites do not allow their URLs to be fetched in external course players. For example, due to its CORS policy, Google Drive does not allow its files to be fetched (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing). A solution to this is to upload the audio file straight as a file to the learning activity instead of as a URL.