Make authentic human presence part of the everyday learning experience, simply.
A VoiceThread is a persistent virtual room that enables rich multimodal comments and conversations in a low stress and accessible format. Use any media you want - participate whenever you want - express yourself however you want.
Humanizing
Social media inspired learning tools rely too heavily on clickety-click interactions and not enough on the authentic and complex nuance of the voices and faces found in VoiceThread rooms. Real learning communities, are built on real human interactions.
AI Aware
Students develop the higher order critical thinking skills required to process and transform the learning materials created by peers and faculty. Cognitive skills cannot be easily offboarded to gen AI "assistants." No AI detectors or detection workflows required.
Research
VoiceThread is one of the most heavily researched tools created in the last 20 years. Over 3,337 research articles cite VoiceThread and the vast majority point to positive impacts on teaching and learning. The evidence for efficacy is substantial.
Thousands of the world's best learning institutions make VoiceThread part of their teaching and learning toolset.
Despite the ever-changing web and world, a growing PLN, new ways to connect and share ideas available every single day..... one thing has remained constant: VoiceThread is the highest quality, most dynamic and empowering web tool available to teachers and students for learning projects. (In My Opinion) And I have tried everything.
Brad Wilson
How VoiceThread fits into the curricular toolscape
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71%
Strongly agreed
"Hearing my peers improved my ability to reach the learning objectives".
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59%
Strongly disagreed
With a preference for a traditional text based discussion board.
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4.75 / 5
Student satisfaction
Student rating for improving the development of their oral and language skills.
How can I get started?
Pro Educator
$2416 /month /month
- Unlimited number of VoiceThread rooms & presentations
- Max recording increased to 60 min
- Secure sharing
- Create groups and subgroups
- Create unlimited courses
- Admin over students
- Transfer large files, up to 3GB
- Upgraded support
- Cost for course seats $4-$12
Free Educator
$00 /month /month
What you get:
- Up to 200 VoiceThread rooms / presentations
- Recording limit of 10 min per comment
- Limit of 25 slides per VoiceThread
- Create Groups and sub-groups
Free Student
$08 /month /month
- Create up to 10 VoiceThread rooms / presentations
- Record up to 3 min per comment
- Unlimited number of comments
Pro Educator
Free Educator
Free Student
How will I work with students?
- Have them use free accounts, where they can make an unlimited number of comments but their comments will be limited to 3 minutes each.
- Use VoiceThread Courses where students get upgraded accounts and use all the features of courses — a modular structure with content, assignments, student gallery, quick grader, and analytics. The cost for course participation is $4 if you purchase seats for them, or $12 if they purchase their own seats. (bulk discounts available)
Institutional Licenses
16 /month
- SSO (single sign-on)
- Automatic account creation
- Course sync with LMS
- Custom licensing & DPA
- Guaranteed uptime
- Security / Compliance controls
- Discounted pricing for students
Free technical pilots are available as well as discounted pilots for any new institution. Multiple fee frameworks are available: Inclusive Access and Active User.