Instructors:

Feel free to copy these FAQs to your course to inform students about VoiceThread.

What is a VoiceThread Anyway?

VoiceThread is an exciting, web-based tool that allows you to use video, audio, images, and text to make amazing, interactive presentations. See this sample VoiceThread (VT).

VoiceThread is a multimedia slideshow with narrations and a discussion platform.

Accessing our Class VoiceThread Page:

You can access our Class VoiceThread Page through any of the VoiceThread assignments for this class.
If you have any trouble accessing, please see the bottom of this VT page for troubleshooting tips.

Create and Submit Your First VoiceThread

Creating your first VoiceThread is going to be fun! There is so much you can do! Here is a great resource on Creating a VoiceThread. To submit your VoiceThread in Canvas, follow the How to Submit Your VoiceThread in Canvas.

Best Practices for Creating VoiceThread Slides

While importing media into VoiceThread is very simple, there are several methods. This section provides best practices related to creating slides and comments in your VoiceThread.

Importing PowerPoint or Keynote Slides into a VoiceThread:

While you can import a PowerPoint file (.ppt) directly into VoiceThread, we recommend that you do not do it that way. Doing the import directly from PowerPoint may cause your slides to scale incorrectly, especially if you have images or illustrations in your slides.

Two Best Ways to Convert:

Save PowerPoint as a .pdf and then import the .pdf into VoiceThread. From one pdf, each slide of your PowerPoint will import as separate slides in your VoiceThread in one easy step.
Save PowerPoint as a series of .jpg images and then import the .jpg images into Voicethread. Occasionally, you may have slides with illustrations or images on them that do not come in particularly well even importing the .pdf version. When this occurs, try the ‘Save As JPG’ feature in PowerPoint. Each slide in your PowerPoint will save as a .jpg file. In this case, you would need to import each slide one at a time. This is why we recommend trying .pdf method first.

Setting Up Your VoiceThread Slides

Be sure to give your VoiceThread a title. This will help manage your VoiceThreads as you create more of them in the future.
Give each slide a title. Again, this helps with organization as your VoiceThread content expands.

Making Your Comments

Make comments one slide at a time. Only use multi-slide commenting to compare and contrast slides.