Teaching with Wimba Voice
What is Wimba Voice?
UNT has a campus-wide license to Wimba Voice 6.0, a set of tools that enables educators to incorporate voice recording in instruction. Many of these tools allow instructors to enable recording by students, promoting vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment. These tools include:
- Voice Podcaster: Create or upload podcasts for user subscription
- Voice Presentation: Add web content alongside vocal messages
- Voice Discussion Board: Post and listen to voice messages within discussion boards
- Voice Authoring: Record and listen to voice on a web page
- Voice E-mail: Send and listen to voice through email messages
- Integrated Gradebook: Automatically update Bb Vista gradebooks with voice board assessments
See Wimba Voice in Action
Getting Started
- In Blackboard Vista on the Build tab, click Add Content and select the Voice tool you would like to use.
- Outside of Blackboard Vista, please send an email to lauri.morrow@unt.edu to request a Wimba Voice 6.0 account.
Wimba Voice Tutorials
- Wimba Voice Archive Demos
- Wimba Voice within Blackboard Vista / CE User Guide 4.0 (PDF)
- Wimba Voice User Guide 6.0 (PDF) (outside of Vista)
- Creating a New Podcast (Video)
- Creating a New Slide in Voice Presentation (Video)
- Voice Authoring (Video)
- Voice Board: Creating a Post (Video)
Best Practices Using Wimba Voice
- Use Wimba's Design Basics Worksheet (PDF) to determine which Voice tool best fits the activity you plan to incorporate.
- UNT's Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign (CLEAR) assigns instructional consultants to work with faculty who want to implement this technology in their teaching activities. For one-on-one training or to schedule a demo for a small group, please contact the CLEAR instructional consultant assigned to work with you.
Accessibility with Wimba Voice
Wimba's collaboration software is designed to meet or exceed globally recognized accessibility guidelines, as defined in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (U.S. Government), as well as W3C-WAI and SENDA (UK).
- VPAT for Wimba Voice (pdf)
Technical Support
The terms of our license with Wimba, Inc. entitle our users to 24/7 support. If you experience a problem using Wimba, please visit the Wimba Technical Support Center or use one of the following methods to communicate with Wimba Technical Support.
Technical Support via Email: technicalsupport@wimba.com
Wimba Collaboration Suite Technical Support via phone:
- US & Canada: 866.350.4978
- UK: 0800.007.6788
- Rest of World: +1 703.956.3816
UNT's Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign (CLEAR) assigns instructional consultants to work with faculty who want to implement this technology in their teaching activities. For one-on-one training or to schedule a demo for a small group, please contact the CLEAR instructional consultant assigned to work with you.