eMarking Assistant: inserting an audio comment & saving audio for reuse

The following video demonstrates recording and inserting an audio comment into an assignment you are marking or grading and then saving it for future reuse. It shows the following steps:

show the eMarking Assistant toolbar by pressing ALT F8
highlight the part of the assignment you want to comment on, select A new audio comment, and click (insert it in the) margin and then:
- in Word 2007 or later
  - you can use any audio program to record the audio. I use MP3myMP3Recorder (when you install it you will probably want to untick the option to install the RelevantKnowledge addin) which is available for free from download.com to record the audio and save the file to your computer
  - return to Word then browse to the audio file, click next, add a comment, click next
- in Word 2003 or earlier
  - the sound recorder application is automatically opened, you can record the audio and when you click the close box the audio is automatically inserted into the Word document
you (or the student) can then replay the audio comment by double clicking the comment in the margin
if you want you can highlight the audio comment and save it for reuse in any other assignment

The audio comment is stored at "speech" quality that adds only 100 MBytes for a 1 minute comment. The big advantage of recording comments in this is that you do not need to return separate sound files and the audio is embedded into the specific place in the document.

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