Portable audio recorder

[dhicks]

I think that what it means is that they don't have the first clue what they are talking about.

 

Seconded. The instructions we got for putting files on a CD to submit for A-Level PE were a confused mush of random instructions which read as if they had been created and then edited by random different people, some of them perhapse just random passers-by.

 

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David Hicks

[enjay]

The instructions I've got are very clear - actually quite well-written - and they definitely want MP3s not audio CDs, they even stipulate exactly what the MP3 files should be called. Those of you with Coomber machines: are your exam boards happy with the output, and which board do you use?

 

The listening exams are similar, coming in MP3 format. Think we may have to start holding the listening exams in the ICT Suites, and copy the MP3 onto the network at the last possible minute. Burning lots of CDs for portable players which the students may or may not have seems hassle-some, as does transferring MP3s from a PC to their iPod before the exam.

 

I would agree with Andrew_C's suggestion that they don't know what they're talking about, but unfortunately we have to do it the way they tell us, however much of a logistical nightmare that may be (our problem, not OCR's, so why should they care?!).

[dhicks]

Those of you with Coomber machines: are your exam boards happy with the output, and which board do you use?

 

Oh cricky, I'd better go and check...

 

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David Hicks

[enjay]

Thanks for your input on this guys, we've decided to get the Zoom H2 as it seems to offer the most versatility for the two departments - I fear that otherwise we'd end up buying two different units that will each spend 11 months a year gathering dust, with the Zoom we should only have one unit gathering dust for 9 months a year.

[Andrew_C]

I sent most of ours of as MP3s on CD and apart from the one that got lost, and the CD that was BROKEN in the post, no problems. I did send our 1 Arabic recording as Orange Book audio, which was also accepted.