VoiceThread is web-based presentation software that allows users to create and share interactive multimedia slideshows. VoiceThread presentations are used to showcase audio, video, images, and documents while allowing users to comment on them in a variety of means. The effect is an ongoing, asynchronous, digital conversation that tin be hands shared with individuals, groups, and/or embedded into different websites.

  • Logging In
  • Navigating the Site
  • Navigating a VoiceThread Presentation
  • Setting Up your Microphone
  • Creating a VoiceThread
  • Adding a Annotate to a VoiceThread Presentation
  • Editing a VoiceThread
  • Sharing a VoiceThread

Logging In

Go to https://jhu.voicethread.com/ and log in with your JHED ID and countersign.

For more detailed instructions on how to sign in, see Sign in jhu.voicethread.com.

Displays the controls found within the VoiceThread site

Home (top left): Contains links to VoiceThreads that yous have created and that you are subscribed to. As well displays any groups you lot've created or are a member of.
Browse (tiptop left): Browse publicly available VoiceThreads
Create (top left): Create and edit your VoiceThreads
In the top right, yous tin can toggle betwixt list and tile views.
In the bottom left, y'all can detect a link to customize your text and background colors.
In the lesser right, yous can find a link to become help with VoiceThread.

Displays the controls found within a VoiceThread presentation

Identity icons on the left side signal comments that have been left by viewers.
The Play/Pause button tin be found in the bottom-left corner.
Click the Add Comment push to leave a comment.
In the bottom-correct corner, you can navigate to the next or previous slide, or show all slides. You can likewise zoom in or out.

Setting Up your Microphone

If you intend to utilise the audio record characteristic, y'all will demand a working microphone. Please meet the post-obit instructions to gear up up a microphone on your Mac or Windows.

Creating a VoiceThread

  1. Get together the materials that you will be using in your presentation (presentation files, images, videos, etc.).

    Tip: While yous can use a PowerPoint file as your presentation, nosotros take constitute that saving the presentation as a .pdf file before uploading to VoiceThread often works better.

  2. Once you have accessed VoiceThread, click the Create link in the top left.

    The Create link is in the top left corner

  3. In the centre of the screen, click to expand the Add together Media option menu:

    Add Media options menu

    My Estimator: allows you to upload files from your figurer (or you can elevate and drib files right onto the screen).
    Media Sources: allows yous to upload images or files stored in your own account with media sites such equally Flickr.
    Webcam Photograph: volition use your webcam to take a photo and instantly add together information technology to the slide.
    Webcam Video: allows you to record a video using your webcam.
    URL: allows you to enter the address of a particular file on the internet.

    Note: If uploading a video, .mov, .flv, and .mp4 files work all-time.

  4. When you have finished calculation media to your presentation, click the Options link in the upper correct corner and select Playback settings to edit/adjust the playback settings for your presentation. Click Update to relieve.

    Expand the Options menu to edit Playback Settings

    Displays playback settings

    Playback Settings:

    • Permit others to download original media
    • Permit others to export
    • Start playing when opened
    • Let others to make a copy
    • Enable Comment Moderation
    • Automatically advance to the next slide subsequently 10 seconds
  1. Add a comment to your VoiceThread presentation by clicking the Comment button (in the Create/Edit view).

    Create/Edit view of a VoiceThread - Comment button is in top left

    Alternatively, from the Home screen, y'all can click on your presentation to play information technology and annotate from there:

    play or comment on presentation from home screen

  2. Several options for commenting will be visible at the bottom eye of the slide. (Click the plus sign to expand the options if they are non visible.) Use the navigational buttons in the lower right to progress to the slide where you want to get out the comment.

    click plus to expand the options if not visible, use navigational button in lower right to advance to the slide where you want to leave the comment

    Displays commenting options

    Commenting options:

    • Add a typed annotate
    • Record a comment using the phone (currently not supported by our JHU license)
    • Record a comment using a microphone (hr max)
    • Tape a comment using a webcam (threescore minutes max)
    • Upload a previously recorded audio comment (.wav or .mp3 files work best)
  3. When saved, the comment will announced as your identity icon, located along the left side of the VoiceThread. Any future comments made by others will exist added the aforementioned way, with identity icons populating the left perimeter of the VoiceThread.

    When the VoiceThread is played, each slide will play through/brandish all comments before proceeding to the next slide.

    to the left of the VoiceThread will be identity icons, indicating a comment has been left. At the bottom of each slide is a green bar that corresponds to the length of the comment. Hover over it for a timestamp of the comment.

    Each comment likewise adds a timeline at the bottom of each slide (green bar), the length of which corresponds to the length of the comment. Hover over it for a timestamp of the comment.

Editing a VoiceThread

  1. From the Dwelling house screen, hover over the VoiceThread you would like to edit and click the Edit link in the option menu that appears:

    To edit a VoiceThread, click the Edit link in the option menu.

    Alternatively, from inside the VoiceThread presentation itself, click the option bill of fare in the upper left corner and select Edit.

    Within the VoiceThread presentation itself, click the option menu in the upper left corner and select Edit.

  2. Add additional media or comments, drag and drop to reorder slides, or hover over any slide to edit or delete.

    Add media, comments, reorder the slides, or over any slide to edit or delete.

  3. When finished editing, click Home to locate and play the VoiceThread to view changes.

Sharing a VoiceThread

  1. From the Home screen, hover over the VoiceThread you would like to share and click the Share link in the option carte du jour that appears:

    To share a VoiceThread, click the Share link in the option menu.

    Alternatively, click the Share link from the summit of the Create/Edit screen:

    Click the share link at the top of the Create/Edit screen.

    Or, from inside the VoiceThread presentation itself, click the option card in the upper left corner and select Share.

    Within the VoiceThread presentation itself, click the option menu in the upper left corner and select Share.

  2. To share with a group/class, select the group name from the list that appears on the Secure tab.

    Note: If your group/class does not announced in this list, you lot demand to first create a grouping. See how to create a group.

    Select the groups from the list you want to share with.

  3. In one case you've selected the group(s), use the permission icons on the right side to decide if group members tin view, annotate, and/or edit the VoiceThread.

    Select the Notify by email option if you want group members to receive an electronic mail letting them know that the VoiceThread is available to them.

    Click Share to share the VoiceThread.

    Click the share button to share the VoiceThread.

  4. You will get a success bulletin when the group is successfully shared.

    Success message showing the VoiceThread was shared.