Quick Tip: Adding Audio Files

Do you teach a world languages class and want to assess your students’ ability to listen to and comprehend a conversation? Or perhaps you teach music or choir and want to assess your students’ ability to listen to and identify notes.

Now, you can do that easier than ever in Naiku. In the short quick tip video below, I show how teachers can easily embed audio files into their test questions.

As always, I appreciate your feedback and suggestions for future Quick Tips.

Adding Audio to Naiku from Naiku on Vimeo.

Naiku Quick Tip is a weekly blog by Naiku Teacher Support Representative Colin Schild, who taught mathematics for grades 5-8 for the past four years. Colin now works to help teachers create more effective and efficient classroom assessment practices. You can reach him at colins@naiku.net or at support@naiku.net. Follow him on Twitter @SchildColin

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