No. The ability to view a student’s full name is only available at the K-12 level. This is frustrating because it can be difficult to tell who has added a comment if students don’t set up an identity that matches their name in Canvas and add a photo that shows their face. For this reason, we recommend that you require that students set up their identity at the start of the semester.
Can I change how my name appears on comments on a VoiceThread presentation?
Yes! VoiceThread shows an icon next to all of your comments that’s based on an “identity” that you’ve created in your account. You can edit your name and add a photo to your identity.
Can I create a “Watch” assignment in VoiceThread for a YouTube video?
Yes! You can embed a YouTube video in a VoiceThread presentation that you use for a Watch assignment. The beauty of adding YouTube videos in VoiceThread is that it removes pop-up ads while the video is playing and doesn’t show random “recommended videos” at its end, plus you can add a message or directions for students as additional slides to go with your YouTube videos.
Will VoiceThread create different courses for each section in a combined section Canvas course?
Unfortunately, no. VoiceThread just creates one course for all of your course’s sections and enrolls students from all of them in it. However, you have a couple of options for a workaround: using a Canvas blueprint instead of combining your sections or manually setting up groups for your different sections in VoiceThread.