VoiceThread is a multimedia discussion board, presentation and voice-authoring tool that is integrated in Canvas. Instructors and students access VoiceThread through the course navigation button or links within a Canvas site for their course.
How can I use VoiceThread in teaching?
- Record a welcome message for the course.
- Create reading comprehension assessments.
- Practice and assess foreign language communication.
- Record lectures for online, face-to-face or hybrid courses.
- Assess individual or group presentations.
- Have students walk through how they completed an assignment
What is unique about VoiceThread?
- VoiceThread allows users to zoom in on an image for closer inspection. This can also be done while leaving a comment.
- VoiceThread includes a doodle tool, so that users can annotate the media they are discussing.
- VoiceThread allows comments to be moderated by the instructor.
- VoiceThread allows comments to be left on each slide of the presentation, so you can have multiple discussion threads within a single VoiceThread.
Technical requirements
VoiceThread is a cloud application, so there is no software to install. The only system requirement is an up-to-date version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. VoiceThread will run in your web browser and on almost any Internet connection.