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Applies to Moodle 4.3 .6 from July 2019

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from August 2024 onwards

Preparing your media files

Guidelines for students recording audio and video for submission for assessment

Reducing video file sizes

Reducing video file

Acceptable file formats

MediaSpace accepts a wide variety of video formats.

We recommend where possible, MP3 (for audio) or MP4 (for video)

For other accepted formats see this list

Submitting videos and other files

Note: In some cases you may also be expected to submit other types of file, for example, a Word or PDF document or a copy of the PowerPoint presentation. These should be submitted as normal through the Files area in the dropbox. 

How to submit a media file (e.g., video or podcast/audio) through a Moodle assignment dropbox

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

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To upload a media file you have created:

• After clicking Add submission, in  
• In the upload screen for online text, select the bent arrow at the end of the formatting bar to open the full formatting icon suite

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• Click click the Mediaspace button (marked below).

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• A new window will open.

Your browser must be set to accept ALL cookies (If at this point you see a message indicating that your browser is blocking third party cookies, go to this guide on how to enable cookies for how to resolve this issue).

• In the new window (Mediaspace), towards the topOnce you're in Mediaspace, select Add New > Media Upload in the top-right of the page, click Add New  then select Media Upload.
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• Read the copyright statement and tick the checkbox, if you agree to it.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• This will save your changes ONLY . ..
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•  To ... To complete the upload, click Save and Embed, then click Embed on the following Preview page.
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• 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 filemedia.

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• 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.

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• 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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• After clicking Add submission, in the upload screen for online text click the Link button.
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• Paste the URL for your media source into the Create Link dialog box and click Open in New Window > Create Link.
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• The file will appear in the Online Text box as a hyperlink. Your description should be written underneath the link.
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• 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.
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• If you are 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.

Uploading Media Files to a Moodle Assignment - Guidance Video 

Note that the appearance of the icon bar in this video is a previous version. The MediaSpace icon does look the same though in a different place on the formatting bar. See instructions above.

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