How to add tutor audio

Introduction

If you want audio to play automatically for your learners, in this article we’re going to show you how to do that by adding tutor audio to your pages.

NOTE: This was previously called 'Page audio' in Nimble V1.

Top tips before you begin

• Tutor audio automatically plays an audio clip when learners enter the page.
• If you want your audio to start playing only when your learners click a button, try using the audio block interaction 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 tutor audio to a page:

To add tutor audio to a page:

1. Whilst editing a page, click on the Tutor audio button in the bottom left of from the Add content section of the side menu.

Uploading an audio file

To upload an audio file:

4. 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:

5. Click the ⋮ next to the file.
6. Click Edit.

7. 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:

8. Select the text you’d like to format.
9. 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:

10. Select the file from the list.
11. Click the  button.

Deleting tutor audio:

To remove tutor audio from a page:

1. 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.
2. Click the delete () button on the right of the tutor audio button

How your learners interact with it

If you build a course that contains tutor audio, when learners access the course, they will initially see a popup message alerting them that it contains audio that plays automatically.

When a learner enters a page that contains tutor audio, they will hear it play as soon as they enter that page.  They will also see a playbar at the bottom of the page,

where they can pause the audio, and can also use the progress bar to skip forward or back through the file. To open or close the transcript, they click the transcript () button.