Technical Questions

[Mandy]

I thought this would be a good place to post questions, and we could all try to answer them together.

[Mandy]

I have made 18 voice threads (one for each of my students) and have allowed commenting with moderation. Is there a way to find out of someone left a comment, without having to look at each individual voice thread? Will VT send an email to my account? I haven't received anything yet, but I was hoping. How do you know when a new comment is waiting to be approved?

[Lee Kolbert]

Hi Mandy,
If you see a little yellow comment icon, then there is a comment there that you have not reviewed yet.

As for an email notification; I know they are working on that, but it not a feature at that time.

[Mandy]

Thank you! That will save SO much time, and I won't need to go through each VT.

[Suzanne Maldonado]

I've purchased an educator's account on VT and cannot find instructions to create accounts for my students and invite them to participate. Can anyone tell me of a resource/tutorial?

[Colette Cassinelli]

After you log in to VT click on the down arrow by your username in the upper right hand corner. Go to Manage Class and sign in. Click on Add Students and you will find a link: Take a look at our Manager User Tutorial. Review that first. The easiest way is to upload a Comma Separated File (CSV) - they have a sample file format.

Good luck, email me if you have any other questions.

[Suzanne Maldonado]

Thank you!!

[Suzanne Maldonado]

Colette,

All I get when I click on the down arow if "my account" and "Sign out." When I click on "my account," I get "Add an identity." Can I add my students in there?

[Mark Carls]

Yes, that's where you can add an identity and I think they will randomly assign an icon if you want (that is what I use for students). Good luck.

[Leanne Windsor]

Hi,
We have a school account with 350 users. I have set up groups for each class and am wondering if it is possible to do a search by class. Also can you group the voicethreads created by each class? I can't see anywhere that lets me do either of these things.
Thanks,
Leanne

[Trist Jones]

No answers I'm afraid - just a lot of interest in them when they show up. I'm hoping to convince my school to purchase an account - we have 480 kids, so any advance trouble shooting tips would be invaluable :)

Trist.

[Mary Ann]

Suggestion for grouping voicethreads:
Have the students add a tag to their voicethread with their teacher's name and the project. Later, the teacher and students will be able to search for VT with the same tag.

Looking for classes:
When I created the accounts, I manually added the students and their teacher to a class group. (The teacher can create smaller groups later, if necessary) To view the class group VT, I click the arrow by Show All (main VT page) and navigate to the class group. I can see the projects if the students shared their VT.

[Russell Johnson]

I think if you go to the "share" page, there is an option to create a group in your address book. There, you can add students to individual groups if you'd like. I'm not sure if this answers your question. I've tried it, and it works.