Using Media Content in ANVILL 2

creating prompts and adding media to create interesting oral/aural tasks

ANVILL 2 Course SystemSunday, July 7, 13

The Starting Point for Interactivity in ANVILL 2

Situation: You want to create a lesson that looks like this, that is, one that gives students a video prompt, and asks them to respond with a Voiceboard posting.

To get started, follow these steps...

task

instructions

response

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Click the “+” button in the lesson menu

To start from scratch, choose a new lesson, or an existing one from the Lesson Library.

Step 1: Add a lesson

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Choose a template for the lesson, e.g. Basic

Name the lesson (and upload an icon for it)

Fill in required information about the lesson, click Save.

Step 2: Name the Lesson

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Our “basic” lesson is created. We can edit it to make it more specific to this lesson.

To add a space for new content, click on the “+” sign (this works for any kind of content).

Step 3: Customizing the Lesson

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Choose Media File. Teachers can add 4 different content types anywhere in ANVILL. Here we want to add a video link from YouTube.

Files > Add New File. This is where you choose the media type and location. Click finish.

Step 4: Adding a Media File

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Upload. Use this to add a file from your computer.

Web. This is lets you type in a URL and ANVILL will take care of the rest.

My Files. This is your ANVILL library—everything you’ve ever made.

Step 5: Adding a Media File, pt. 2

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Once you enter a URL, a “thumbnail” of the video appears. Click finish.

Voila. Your video appears in the lesson.

Step 6: Adding a YouTube video

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Edit Page. ANVILL permits you to drag and drop content blocks to get the best sequence and visual appeal.

Cross Bar > Drag this to another yellow area on the page to move the block. Save. (or click the + sign to add something else.)

Step 7: Layout of Your Lesson

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Edit Page. Click the + sign to add a Voiceboard.

Choose Voiceboard.

Name the Voiceboard, decide if it should be text only, speech only, or both. Click Finish.

Save.

Step 8: Adding a Voiceboard

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That’s it! You’re done.

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More Questions?

You can always post them to the Help Desk discussion board!

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