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Tammy P.

Director, KSU RCHSS Office of Digital Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/15/2021

"VoiceThread for Multimodal, Asynchronous Discussions"

5/5

What do you like best about VoiceThread?

VoiceThread allows for students to speak, use video, share images, draw on images, and collaborate. It provides a lot of flexibility and ways of interaction. It's very easy for students to use if the professor has set it up. With support, students can create their own VoiceThreads, as well. That means they can create presentations with voice and pictures that other students can view and respond to. VoiceThread also goes above and beyond to make sure slides are accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VoiceThread?

I dislike that sometimes the interface with D2L makes it so that students think they are posting, but they are not. It's really a mess--and in the past it would create one gradebook column and continuously overwrite it, which is a problem. So I don't use it in D2L but rather link outside. However, if students create a free account instead of using their school account--which doesn't always work--then their work becomes invisible to the people who use the school account. There are some bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VoiceThread:

It's the only tool I know of that allows students in online courses to create group presentations. I also don't know of another tool that allows students to draw on slides in the asynchronous, online class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VoiceThread solving and how is that benefiting you?

VoiceThread allows me to assign group presentations in online courses that all students in the class can create and then react to and enjoy. It also allows me to put students in groups and assign them slides to annotate with a pen (perhaps put items in order or explain how a graph violates design rules, for instance). It is also very helpful in foreign language classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.