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Applies to Moodle 3.6 from July 2019

Uploading Media Files to a Moodle Assignment - Guidance Video

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Preparing your media files

Recording media for submission

Reducing video file sizes

Reducing video file

Acceptable file formats

MediaSpace accepts a wide variety of video formats.

We recommend where possible, MP3 or MP4

For other accepted formats see this list

You can submit a media file through a Moodle assignment dropbox as follows:

• Navigate to the relevant module, click into the Assignment, then select Add submission.

To upload a media file you have created:

• After clicking Add submission, in the upload screen for online text click the Mediaspace button (marked below).

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• Once you're in Mediaspace, select Add New > Media Upload in the top-right of the page.
  

• Read the copyright statement and tick the checkbox, if you agree to it.
  
• The Upload Media dialog box will open. Drag and Drop a file OR Click +Choose a file to upload and navigate to the file you wish to submit.
  
  
  
• N.B. for Mac users: Videos created on a Mac sometimes upload without audio and may need to be re-encoded using a free program such as Handbrake)

• When the file has uploaded (this may take some time, depending on the size), complete the name and description and click Save.
  
  

• This will save your changes ONLY ...
  
  
  
• ... To complete the upload, click Save and Embed, then click Embed on the following Preview page.
  
  
          

• The file will appear in the Online Text box as a hyperlink.
  (You can submit multiple videos by creating a new line and repeating the process with the next video)
• Click Save Changes to submit and view your media.
  

• Your submission is now complete and the Submission Status should show as 'Submitted for grading' (in green).
• If your submission was late, Time Remaining will be highlighted red and it will show how late the submission was.

• If you happy with your submission you can navigate away from the submission page and continue with your other tasks. 
• If you wish to resubmit, click Edit Submission begin the process again.
  
  

      To embed a link to a media file from an external source (e.g., a YouTube video):

• After clicking Add submission, in the upload screen for online text click the Link button.
  
  

• Paste the URL for your media source into the Create Link dialog box and click Open in New Window > Create Link.
  

• The file will appear in the Online Text box as a hyperlink. Your description should be written underneath the link.
• Click Save Changes to submit and view your file.
  
• Your submission is now complete and the Submission Status should show as 'Submitted for grading' (in green).
• If your submission was late, Time Remaining will be highlighted red and it will show how late the submission was.
  
• If you happy with your submission you can navigate away from the submission page and continue with your other tasks. 
• If you wish to resubmit, click Edit Submission begin the process again.

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