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Kate The code I used was extremely simple, it was just this: <BGSOUND SRC="anyname.wav"> <EMBED SRC="anyname.wav" AUTOSTART="TRUE" HIDDEN="FALSE"> To be honest that is the code I should have used, but I did it with just the background sound tag at first, to test it, so the code I produced was this: <BGSOUND SRC="/courses/1/John1/content/_2353_1/john2.wav"> <p><img height="132" alt="Welcome from John Edmonstone" src="/courses/1/John1/staffinformation/_201_1/johncircle.c1int1.jpg" width="132" border="0"></p> <p>A welcome message from your tutor</p That works with IE, but my understanding is that if you use the embed tag this will work with both IE and Netscape, though I haven't tested that. Putting both in is supposed to cover all bases and when I tried the page like that it did work for me with IE. It is suggested that putting both tags in can cause conflict for IE, but I didn't find it to be so. You'll notice with the URLs that I've cut them down to relative addresses and I've cut out the string of numbers that Blackboard produces for its document URLs. The reason here was that I was wrong when I suggested absolute addressing works. It worked the first time only, but when I logged off and then logged on again Blackboard created an entirely new string of numbers for the URLs of the documents (I eventually worked out) and so my addresses wouldn't work. It must be a database function and is probably how BB tracks individual instances of students accessing materials. So I cut the addresses back down to the relative paths you see above and they worked again. As I said, to put the code in I simply pasted what you see above into the text box for announcements, with the HTML option selected, and I made sure that there were no head or body tags in it. That's all. Maybe just a lucky first time guess, though I must say I was pleased with having puzzled out how to do it. The secret was in loading image and wav files to documents as stand alone files - and that is interesting too, because a .wav file will then play with IE. John Edmonstone -----Original Message----- From: Kate Boardman [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 29 May 2002 17:26 To: John Edmonstone Subject: RE: Neat Trick John, Congratulations! But could you maybe give us a bit more detail - I've been trying to recreate it not terribly successfully. Can get it to work in IE, but not netscape, and had to abandon usual dreamweaver html for <embed wav>. If you could spare the code that does it well I'd be grateful. Kate ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kate Boardman Learning Technologies Team IT Service University of Durham South Road Durham DH1 3LE Tel.: 0191 374 1502 Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Web: http://www.dur.ac.uk/k.l.boardman -----Original Message----- From: MLE Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Edmonstone Sent: 29 May 2002 15:55 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Neat Trick I worked out a neat little trick for an intro to my Blackboard course. As you know you can write HTML for the announcements page, which will then display in the Announcements area. I wrote a short piece of HTML which contained my image and a welcome message, that I'd recorded as a .wav file, as the background sound which played on loading. I then posted these two files into documents, displayed their links and clicked on the links to find out their filepaths. I then pasted the relevant file paths into my html for the announcements page. The result is that when you open up my course you have my image and a welcome message on the announcements page - which plays automatically. It's not narcissism, but looking for ways to add some fun functionality. I used the absolute urls for the two files, but found that it works too if you strip them down to the relative addresses. John Edmonstone Cardonald College