How to add an audio block – Nimble Elearning

Introduction

In this article, we’re going to show you how to add audio blocks to your pages.

Top tips before you begin

An audio block provides an audio player within your page. Your learners must click on the play button to start the audio playing.
If you want your audio to start playing automatically when your learners open the page, try using tutor audio instead.
If you’re using audio, don’t forget you’ll want to be sure your learners have access to headphones or speakers. It’s a great idea to add a note at the beginning of your course that audio is required so that your learners can find headphones before they begin.
You should always add a transcript to your audio. This is important because it ensures that learners without headphones or speakers, or people with hearing disabilities, can still understand your content.
If you’re narrating the text on your page, make sure that you’ve finalised that text before recording your audio – otherwise you’ll need to update it if the text changes!
Nimble Author supports audio in the .mp3 format. It you have audio in a different file format, you'll need to convert it to an mp3 file - here are a few free to use online tools to help you do that: https://convertio.co/
https://www.zamzar.com/
https://cloudconvert.com/

Adding an audio block to a page:

To add an audio block to a page:

Whilst editing a page, drag and drop an Audio () block from the Add content section of the side menu and onto the page.

Select the Audio block.
From the toolbar, click the edit () button.

Uploading an audio file

To upload an audio file:

Click the button and select the audio file that you'd like to add to your course.

Adding a transcript

You should always add a transcript to your audio. This is important because it ensures that learners without headphones or speakers or people with hearing disabilities can still understand your content. To add a transcript to your audio file:

Click the ⋮ next to the file.
Click Edit.

Type your text or copy and paste it from another program, such as Microsoft Word.

Formatting your transcript

You can format your transcript using the toolbar that appears above it.

To apply formatting to your text:

Select the text you’d like to format.
Select the format you’d like to apply from the toolbar.

The formatting options, from left to right, are:

	Bold
	Italic
	Underline
	Numbered list
	Bulleted list
	External link

Saving your changes

To save your changes, simply click somewhere outside of the transcript.

Selecting your audio file

To select the audio file and add it into the page:

Select the file from the list.
Click the button.

Deleting an audio block:

To remove an audio block from a page:

Make sure you're in 'Edit' mode. you can enter edit mode by click on the 'Edit page' button at the bottom right of the page.
Select the Audio block.
From the toolbar above the audio block, click the delete () button.

How your learners interact with it

Once you’ve added a file to your audio block, learners simply click the play button to begin playback and can then use the progress bar to skip forward or back through the file. To open or close the transcript, they click the transcript () button.