VoiceThread

VoiceThread - a collaborative slideshow tool that supports images, video and voice

Create a free account at VoiceThread or if you are a College of Education faculty, staff or student contact Laura B. Fogle to upgrade an existing account or get a new premium account with your NCSU gmail address as your username. Overview and help content available at https://voicethread.com/howto/
View a presentation about VoiceThread created by METRC here.

VoiceThread has created several tutorials to help new users get oriented. You can find them here.
Content - click on Browse to explore what other VoiceThread users have created and made public.
Click the Create button to start your own VoiceThread. Automatically create slides by uploading Google Slides, PowerPoint or PDF presentations.
Free version allows you to create up to 5 VoiceThreads, comment by microphone and text, and share your VoiceThreads via a share link.
The free version is limited to 50 slides per VoiceThread. The paid version has a limit of 500 slides.

Students can:

interact with a VoiceThread instructors create by adding comments. Instructors can allow text, audio or video comments. How to comment
create their own VoiceThread and share it with instructors and classmates using a group or a link. How to share

Instructors can:

upload presentations (Google Slides, PowerPoint or PDF) and add a video "comment" to create side by side presentation with slides and video.
create a VoiceThread where students can add a slide for an assignment
create a group for your students following the instructions here if you are a College of Education faculty, staff or grad student teaching a class.

Instructors can post comments as informal feedback.
An external rubric can be used to evaluate student content, no built-in scoring.
If you are grading student voice comments, consider limiting length of comments using the "Thread Settings - Limit Each Comment to __". Learn more about settings.