Make sure the audio and visuals work together. Instead, the audio and visual elements should complement each other, enhancing the learning experience and improving the learner’s grasp of the topic. Make sure the audio quality is excellent. MORE

Group images, video, and audio files and text for use in constructing your eLearning course. Watch out for file size limitations, an extremely annoying shortcoming in some eLearning tools. These force you to edit your content (audio and video) into a smaller size, thereby robbing its meaning altogether! Watch out for Audio and Video issues. No eLearning program is categorized as “interactive” if it does not include audio and video sources. MORE

create videos in a variety of commonly used file types. CamStudio is open source, free software, to create AVI videos of all audio and video activity on your screen. CamStudio’s website claims its software is so easy to use, you can learn it in a matter of minutes, thanks to their built-in help files. built-in help file. can add graphics from your local drive for annotating files. the ability to export in a wide variety of file types for publishing. MORE

Here, we’ll focus on enhancing the learning experience with (great) audio , as pure text or graph-based learning can be, well, excruciatingly mind-numbing. So, what is audio “good for”? Yes, there are instances when you do not need any audio at all in your eLearning. Out of the seven horrible mistakes you’re likely making with eLearning , two-and-a-half out of the seven mistakes are audio-related: 1. No audio. And, can audio enhance that learning experience?”. MORE

Quality audio is more important than you realize. There are several things you can do on your own to secure better quality audio without having to spend loads of money. Just because you can record audio with a device doesn’t mean that audio is sufficient. The two biggest less-than-desirable audio recording device culprits are laptop mics and cell phones. The key is to get the best audio you can to begin with. MORE

This will let people understand your video’s message even with the sound off or if they are deaf or hard of hearing. Microphone. Whether for your mobile device, input directly into your camera or computer, a microphone will improve the overall quality of you your video. MORE

Even to video professionals, the difference in perceivable quality between a compressed video and a full-sized video when watched on a mobile device is marginal. Compressing them will reduce the file size, which will reduce download times and put less strain on learners’ phones while playing. MORE

This ensures that the sound source and playback options are set correctly as well as bit-rate, quality indicators and so on. Checking the Audacity preferences is very important step and should be done before you begin editing any audio. Set Audio Input & Outputs. Select the Audio I/O tab from the choices across the top of the Preferences Dialog box. I/O is short for Input Output and is where you’ll tell it to record your sound from and where to play it back. MORE

Step 4: Select your audio. For audio, you can use music, voice narration, or a combination of the two. We want the video to make sense with or without sound, since most people watch videos on social media with the sound turned off. If you are using voice narration for your video, be sure to use a decent microphone to capture your audio. With Camtasia (which is our favorite video editing program), you can import all of your video assets and audio. MORE