Voice Thread Visual Redesign 2024

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There are dozens of new features and enhancements in the new VoiceThread. First, though, what’s not changing: the fundamental value delivered in each of the 24 million VoiceThread discussions people have already built — the ability to capture and convey wonderfully complex human presence across space and time. Put more succinctly, human presence in a comment.

Feeling a sense of human presence in our learning, work and social lives is really, really important. The research makes this very clear and has informed all our planning and development. So… what’s this “New VoiceThread” all about? Accessibility, simplicity, new features and the future.

Full rollout of new VT
A rollout date has not been selected. However, if a date has not been chosen by BCM, we will be automatically transitioned over to that new version on June 30.

Accessibility Updates

Dark mode: For people who need or prefer a dark background
New in-line hinting workflow for new commenters
Bonus: Ability to edit captioning chunk timings and create new ones
Bonus: Overhaul of the “Manager” for license admins to have full screen reader and keyboard accessibility

Content Management

Delete, edit and share VoiceThreads in bulk
New button in comment dialogs providing a method to copy a link to a specific comment
New activity feed that includes more than just comments
Drag-and-drop to share VoiceThreads with groups, courses or ThreadBoxes
Updated course interface and sections to better organize content within a course
Course-level analytics
Add tracks/sections/channels to ThreadBoxes to help organize larger conferences
Bonus: Drag-and-drop to delete VoiceThreads

Assignments

Customize when and how students can see the Student Gallery in Create Assignments
Require students to comment on a classmate’s submission for a grade in a Create

Assignment