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VoiceThread Student Guide

What is VoiceThread?

VoiceThread is a collaborative online tool that integrates visual media, text, video, and voice into a presentation. You can pre-record your narration of images, documents, videos and power point slides into one thread for students. You can enable video, audio or text comments for asynchronous discussion with your class.

How to Find Gallery View and Submit an Assignment

Sometimes instructors may create an assignment that requires you to not only upload your own VoiceThread, but also leave a comment on one of your classmates. In order for you to see your classmates assignments, you will need to utilize Gallery View.

  1. Log into Moodle and access the course page.

  2. Click on the VoiceThread link inside the course you are submitting the assignment for.

    Picture of the VoiceThread activity

  3. When you open the assignment, you will see the assignment information, due date, grade percentage and whether or not you have submitted the assignment. For this particular assignment, you will need to add a new slide with a picture of your favorite food and then add a either a text or audio comment saying what it is. To get started, click the + button to add a new slide.

    Assignment information screen

  4. On the next page, you will be given a few options on how you can add a new slide:

    • You can choose to upload content from your device as a slide itself.

    • You can record a slide directly in Voicethread that can be used,

    • You can copy material from previous VoiceThreads you have completed.
    • You can upload content from an outside source.
    • You can add a URL to a webpage.
    • You can take a picture directly in VoiceThread that can be used.
    • You can record audio directly into VoiceThread that can be used.

    For this example, since the instructor wants to see an image, we are going to use the add from device option.

    Submit or resubmit screen

  5. Once your slide has been uploaded, you can then add a comment to the slide to fulill the requierement. To add a comment, click on the plus sign within the speech bubble on the bottom left hand corner of the VoiceThread.

    Open student gallery screen

  6. From here you will have four types of comments to choose from:

    Student gallery screen
    • a text comment
    • an audio comment
    • a video recorded comment
    • upload a comment from file
Select the text comment and type your response based on the directions of the VoiceThread and click save..

  1. You will now see your comment appear on the left hand side. You can click on the comment and you will be able to read this. Depending on the assignment and requirements, others will be able to leave comments on a VoiceThread and they will appear in the same area. Now that you have fulfilled the assignment requirements, you are now able to submit. 

  2. Click the submit button.

     

  3. Depending on how your instructor has the assignment setup, your grade should appear in your gradebook.