Assessing student presentations with VoiceThread assignments

Students can create a VoiceThread presentation (singly or as a group), submit that VoiceThread to their instructor, and share the VoiceThread with their classmates for comments and discussion. The setup requires two VoiceThread links in your course. We suggest that you name these links clearly with their intended purpose, as seen below. More information is available at Creating a VoiceThread assignment and how to create a stacked assignment.
Note: We have created some sample instructions for Group presentations. These can be altered for individual presentations.

Part 1 — Create

For the students to be able to create a VoiceThread presentation, you need to give them access to VoiceThread. Students will access their VT Home area to create their presentation.  It is a best practice for students to create VoiceThreads in their VT Home rather than directly in an assignment.

Note: If they are working in groups, you will need to designate one student group leader to create the presentation and to share it with their group members.

1. Go to your Canvas course.
2. Add a VT Home link to a module.
3. Name it something like Create your presentation here.

Part 2 — Submit

Once the student has finished their presentation, they will need to submit it to you for grading.

Note: If they are working in groups, the non-leader students will need to make their own copy of the VoiceThread presentation to submit to you for grading if you want every student to have a submission. They will also have their own copy if something goes wrong.

1. In your Canvas module, add a VoiceThread Create assignment.
2. Name this link something like Submit your presentation here.
3. Learn how to grade VoiceThread assignments.

Part 3 — Commenting on presentations (optional)

If you would like your students to comment on each other's presentations, you will need to create an additional Comment type assignment, called a Stacked assignment. 
Note: The presentations in the Student Gallery will not show up until the due date for the first assignment has passed. 

1. Create a Stacked assignment based on the Create assignment.
2. Name this link something like Presentation Peer Engagement.

Part 4 - Grading

1. Learn how to grade VoiceThread assignments.

VoiceThread campus and vendor resources