If anyone remembers my audio recording thread, I was looking for a system that would allow (already registered) students to leave audio responses to questions posted on a website. Well, I persuaded my professor that we should go the Wordpress route, since it's the CMS I'm most familiar with.

Anyway, we looked into a couple of plugins that we could use, and the one that provided the best functionality was riffly.com, an audio comments plugin.

However, we didn't like the fact that Riffly, along with every other audio recording plugin, was hosted off-site and many times you'd have to register an account with them and it'll just link to it on their server in the comment field.

Since there doesn't seem to virtually any solutions to this, I think it might be easier to just write my own plugin. If we could put all the files for one quiz in one WP post, that'd be great. However, using the already implemented comment system and just creating one quiz question per post might be easier (and the quizzes themselves will be composed of the site categories).

I could probably write the PHP functions and code, however it's mostly the flash / microphone aspect that confuses me. I know you'd have to incorporate java or flash of some sort to interact with the local computer, but I have NO IDEA how to write something up in those languages, mixing the two technologies together, etc.

Also any brainstorming recommendations on how to code the flash player, where we could store / structure the mp3 files on the server, functionality suggestions, etc.... would be greatly appreciated.

Wow! Almost 200 views and no one knows? C'mon people, I'll offer TP for some great solutions!


Serious question though, do you guys think I might be better off looking for something like this in the marketplace (aka hiring a flash WP developer)? I assumed this would be a simple task, but I could be mistaken since I don't know very much about flash (or java or whatever language I could use for that matter), and I don't have very much to spend.

Also, we decided to go the WPMU + Buddypress route, but I don't think that makes too much a difference, as the options regarding this aren't all that different.