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I just figured out how to do a neat thing in eCollege. First of all, the setting is that my SME was referring students to an external page (via a simple hyperlink) in order for them to listen to a podcast so as to complete the assignment. One problem (of many) was that the actual podcast was at the bottom of a very cluttered and disorganized page. So I downloaded the podcast and cleaned it up in Audacity (there was an ad at the very beginning), then I uploaded the mp3 in the course. I could have just linked students to the content within the course, which would have allowed them to download it, but I wanted to find a way for students to actually listen to it on the spot. This audio was actually in a discussion forum, so students listen to the podcast, respond, and then post replies to classmates. Now I will walk you through how I managed to embed the player. First of all, I assume that you know how to upload content into the course. Create a hyperlink to the content (Author > Add a Link > Link to File or Content > point to the content and add linked text). The purpose for creating the hyperlink is to get the html path of the content. In my case it looked like: http://threadcontent.next.ecollege.com/CurrentCourse/podcast.mp3 It will be whatever is in between the quotation marks within the href anchor tag. I chose to embed a QuickTime Player, just because it is much simpler and most people have QuickTime, whereas Mac users may not have media player. Here is my code: http://threadcontent.next.ecollege.com/CurrentCourse/podcast.mp3" type="video/quicktime" autoplay="true" controller="true" loop="false" height="50" width="200">

The red text is my link to the audio file. You notice that you can control the autoplay as well. Switch that to "false" if you don't want it to automatically play. In most cases you will just want to upload the media into the streaming media folder, because then the file will open in whatever format the student has as default (media player, winamp, itunes, etc.). But my way is also an option now. I'll also not that I added a direct link below my embedded player:

Click here to download podcast.

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