MP3 players for MFL exams

[unixman_again]

At the mo, we do our MFL listening exams using CDs. However the principal has insisted that we go high tech and use MP3 players. The problem we have is finding an MP3 player without FM radio. This one fits the bill but getting 50 is proving impossible Bush CMP332DP Does anybody else use MP3 players for MFL exams and if so, which one?

 

Thanks!

[Meldrew]

May I recommend that when you find an MP3 player you like that you ask members of the MFL class to try it too. We purchased a set of 15 (I forget which exactly) which the MFL teachers liked but the students found it difficult to skip back and forward between the tracks (or they couldn't see the name of the track very well) and therefore we couldn't use any of them and it was a total waste of money. Instead we have ended up supplying a laptops as mp3 players would you believe.

 

Meldrew

[Arthur]

We use SanDisk Clip MP3 players for listening exams. Never had any complaints.

 

https://www.sandisk.co.uk/home/mp3-players

[SamanthaD]

Used to use iPod touches that we configured using Apple Configurator - locked to the music app with the content pre-loaded. Worked for us!

[Sylv3r]

We do our MFL listening exams in ICT Suites. We rip the CD's on the morning of the exam to an exam account that has no access to the internet or other applications other than Windows Media Player or VLC.

[JEastham]

BUMP

 

Also need a solution for MFL exam scenario. We tried the SanDisk Clip mentioned above but our exams team moaned about the radio functionality. We ideally would like a screen so a student could see which track they are playing but having this feature and not a radio seems to be challenging. Anybody else have any suggestions?

 

The iPod/iPad route seems like alot of money and time which we have neither

[Garacesh]

BUMP

 

Also need a solution for MFL exam scenario. We tried the SanDisk Clip mentioned above but our exams team moaned about the radio functionality.

 

Given that every MP3 player going is designed to use headphones, and FM radio capability uses the headphones as the antenna, I think you'd be quite hard-pressed to find one that doesn't come with radio. It's just a standard feature by now.

 

I'd personally say +1 for the Clip, I've had a few of them over the years and they're fantastic, cheap, and have expandable storage (so you could keep the exam audio loaded on microSD cards and not issue it until it was needed) but if radio is such a deal-breaker you're gonna struggle finding something.

[Dave_G]

We do our MFL listening exams in ICT Suites. We rip the CD's on the morning of the exam to an exam account that has no access to the internet or other applications other than Windows Media Player or VLC.

 

This is what we do.

 

We rip the tracked version of the CD and then create a playlist in Media Player, that way if pupils need to listen to a specific track multiple times they can easily select it (there can be over 50 tracks, some of them only 4 seconds long\short!).