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Bucks VoiceThread: Add VT to your Canvas Course Space

Using this tool, Students or Faculty can deliver presentations or create a conversation about a topic, image, or video.

Adding VoiceThread to your Canvas Course Space for Student Access

  • View the screencast below for directions on how to:
    1. Add VoiceThread to your Canvas course space 
    2. Share an individual VoiceThread with your students
    3. Finalize the integration of VoiceThread and your Canvas course space 
  • Repeat the instructions demonstrated in the screencast for each individual VoiceThread you need to share with your students. 

VoiceThread Tips

Here's some information about VoiceThread to help you use it in your classes. 

VoiceThread is an application that we access entirely through Canvas. So, you must be using a Canvas course space to use VoiceThread. 

Since you must use VoiceThread through Canvas, we recommend you first add VoiceThread to a module and leave it unpublished. That way, only you, the instructor, can see what you are creating in VoiceThread. Directions to do this are in the next box on this page. 

VoiceThread can be used for many purposes! While this makes the tool versatile, it's also a bit confusing. Here are your options:

  1. You can use it to create your own lecture materials and/or collaborative discussions.
    • Add VoiceThread and leave it UNPUBLISHED in your Canvas course space modules by following these directions
    • Create a VoiceThread following the instructions for how to create a VoiceThread
  2. You can use it to share materials and create discussions in an UNGRADED format.​​
    • Add VoiceThread and leave it UNPUBLISHED in your Canvas course space modules by following these directions
    • Share a VoiceThread for students to view by following these directions
    • Share a VoiceThread for students to view and to comment by following these directions
  3. You can require students and GRADE them on viewing and/or commenting on a VoiceThread, or, on creating a VoiceThread.
    • Add VoiceThread and leave it UNPUBLISHED in your Canvas course space modules by following these directions
    • Create an assignment and require the submission type to be the external tool VoiceThread. Further information and directions are available on the Create a VT Canvas Assignment tab along the top of this page.