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<div class="">Depending on your Moodle instance, embedding a media might be a switch the Moodle admin has to turn on. Googling, I found instructions on how to insert media using the Moodle HTML editor. e.g. <a href="https://www.it.umass.edu/support/moodle/post-a-forum-moodle#Add%20Video%20to%20a%20Forum%20Post" class="">https://www.it.umass.edu/support/moodle/post-a-forum-moodle#Add
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<div class="">I'll add a follow-up question. Assuming that this is a class discussion, if the student posts an audio response, who is taking care of producing the transcript?</div>
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<div class="">On 2016 Jan 27, at 06:00, Adam Lipkin <<a href="mailto:alipkin@brandeis.edu" class="">alipkin@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I'm looking for some guidance based on a request from our school's distance learning program:</div>
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<div class="">They have a visually impaired distance learning student, and the school has asked that we accommodate them by adding the ability for the student to record her responses via audio on the discussion boards in Moodle.</div>
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<div class="">I've got a few concerns about this as a reasonable accommodation, but want to make sure that I'm treating this fairly.</div>
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<div class="">First. the discussion boards in Moodle use a standard text interface, so if the students is already able to enter text, they should be able to do so here. Has anyone heard of situations in which text entry for visually impaired students has been
an issue (particularly in DL courses), and if audio was the accommodation?</div>
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<div class="">Second, adding new functionality to Moodle is not a simple or easy thing, and requires a reasonable large amount of time and resources to test and ensure that the features don't break other elements (it's not impossible, but since all courses
here use the system, adding or changing new functionality mid-semester affects the entire campus). So asking us to do it mid-semester isn't a "reasonable" accommodation unless there's a demonstrated burden.</div>
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<div class="">I've also asked if just using a recording tool locally and uploading the MP3 file to the forum would work, but they seem reluctant.</div>
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<div class="">Have you heard of any situation similar to this? Anyone have any good advice or guidance (or examples of how this has been dealt with elsewhere) here?</div>
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<div class="">Thanks!</div>
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