VoiceThread

VoiceThread Create tab with VT files

What is VoiceThread?

VoiceThread is a collaborative environment, which allows you to have conversations around nearly any type of file, including images, videos, documents, and presentations. Users can navigate slides and leave comments in 5 different ways: using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, sound file, or video (via a webcam). VT has a annotation characteristic that one can draw on a video or an image when commenting.

Preferred Browser: Use the latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as your web browser.

File Type and Size for Upload: File size max is 3G (or 2 60 minutes video playtime). There is no limit to the number of slides in one VT for a pro-account holder. Student accounts are limited to 500 slides with 1 media slice each. If your file is larger than that, endeavor breaking it upwardly into smaller files and uploading them individually.

VT accepts well-nigh any type of file equally follows:

Images Audio Video Docs Presentations
JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP MP3 , WAV most QuickTime, WMV, AVI DOC, DOCX, PDF, ODT, XLS, XLSX, ODS PPT, PPTX, Keynote, ODP, PDF

New Assignments Is Hither! (June, 2021)

After June 30, the New Assignment feature will be automatically turned on for every school. Picket this video - Overview of New Assignments to see what the changes are, and how they can provide you with a more effective workflow. Pace-by-footstep instructions can be viewed in this article: How to apply New Assignments.

Getting Started

To become started with VoiceThread, take a wait at the tutorials below to learn how to setup, create, and comment on VoiceThread in addition to the doodling and sharing features.

Instructors' Guide

  • Setting upward your VoiceThread link
  • Adding VoiceThread to your form
  • Grading student work


Students' Guide:

  • Create-A-VoiceThread Consignment
  • Commenting Assignment
  • Watching Assignment
  • How to record comments and options
  • To submit graded assignments


Other Resources:

How to

Complimentary Workshops by VoiceThread

VT for Assessments

FAQs

The pupil likely did non click the "Submit Consignment" button after completing his work.  The educatee can just go back into the assignment and click "Submit Consignment" at a subsequently fourth dimension.  He will not need to re-do his work.

Make sure your web browser accepts tertiary-party cookies.

This means y'all already had a VoiceThread account under your email address, and the system is now trying to connect that existing account with your Canvass profile.  Y'all'll but need to consummate this pace once.  To continue through this page:

  • Click on the link that says "Set it here" to set a verification password for your account.
  • Go on through the steps to set up a countersign.  This volition involve receiving an e-mail from VoiceThread.
  • Use that countersign you simply set on the verification page.

The file you are attempting to upload most likely cannot be candy past VoiceThread.  Effort saving your file in a different format before uploading it again.

Best formats for sound: .mp3 and .wav

Best formats for video: .mp4 and .mov

If people have recorded comments on a VoiceThread and you cannot come across them, the about likely explanation is that Comment Moderation is enabled for this VoiceThread. For more than details virtually how this works, please meet Comment Moderation.

In order to see other people'south moderated comments, y'all'll need to contact the person who created the VoiceThread and ask him or her to reveal the comments for yous.

If you lot received a notification that someone recorded a annotate on your VoiceThread and y'all don't run into that annotate, the most likely reason is that the person deleted the comment afterwards saving it.

If something'due south non appearing the way that it should, you may first try to articulate your browser's enshroud.

Mozilla Firefox:

  • Click on the menu icon in the summit-right corner of your browser (looks like a gear icon).
  • Select "Options" or "Preferences".
  • Click on "Privacy" from the list on the left.
  • Click the link that says "clear your recent history".  A popular-upwardly window will appear.
  • From "Time range to articulate", select "Everything".
  • United nations-check all boxes except "Cache".
  • Click "Clear Now".
  • Restart your browser.

Google Chrome:

  • Click on the menu push to the far right of the accost bar.
  • Hover over the "More Tools" option, and so select "Articulate Browsing Data…".
  • In the new tab that opens, select "The commencement of fourth dimension" in the drop-downwards box, and make sure that the box for "Empty the cache" is selected.
  • Click "Articulate browsing data".
  • Restart your browser.

Try these checkpoints:

  • Cheque the version of your web browser. Utilize the latest version of your preferred spider web browser.
  • Articulate your browser's cache.
  • Restart your calculator.
  • Check the settings for your figurer to brand sure that the correct microphone and/or webcam are selected for input settings.
  • Endeavour accessing VT from another computer.

Failure to process an audio or video annotate recorded directly into VoiceThread is nigh likely acquired by a drop in the connexion between your computer and our servers as you were recording.  Please try again, and contact VoiceThread if you lot keep to accept trouble.