Wimba/Using the Voice Tools

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Listening to recordings

Click on a message (Voice Boards & Podcaster) or slide (Voice Presentation) to select it. Once selected it will be highlighted blue.
Click play to listen to the recording.

Using Voice Boards

A Wimba Voice Board is an audio discussion board where both teachers and students can post recordings which are linked together in a discussion thread.

Wimba Voice Board (Instructor's View)

Before using the Voice Board make sure your computer is correctly setup using the Setup Wizard. You will need earphones and a microphone. A headset is ideal.

Creating messages

An audio recording on a Voice Board is known as a message. It can also include some text. To create a message use either 'New' to create a new message or 'Reply' to respond to an existing one. This will open the Compose window:

Wimba Compose Message window

Give your Message a subject (required). You can also type an optional message in the space below.
To record a message, in the compose or reply window click the record button and speak into your microphone / headset.
Click stop when you have finished recording.
You can review your recording by clicking play
- If you are not happy with the recording you can click record and re-record over your original recording
When you are satisfied with your recording click 'Send' to send your message to the board.

Using Voice Presentations

The Wimba Voice Presentation is for teachers to post web-based content (e.g. a website or an image file uploaded to Moodle) with an associated audio recording. Students can then post audio comments.

Wimba Voice Presentation (Instructor's View)

Creating slides

To create a new slide open a Voice Presentation and click 'New' to open the New slide window:

Wimba New Slide window

Give your Message a subject (required) and type or paste a web address* into the URL box. Make sure you paste over or remove the existing http://. You can also type an optional message in the space below.
- *You can use any web address. It could be an external website (e.g. a newspaper article) or a page or image that you have in Moodle. However, the important thing is that it is web-friendly so that it opens alongside the voice recording rather than in a separate window. HTML pages or suitable image formats: JPG, PNG or GIF are ideal. Other file types that require a plug-in such as PDFs are not recommended as they may open separately.
To record an associated message, click the record button and speak into your microphone / headset.
Click stop when you have finished recording.
You can review your recording by clicking play
- If you are not happy with the recording you can click record and re-record over your original recording
When you are satisfied with your recording click 'Send' to add your slide.

Using Podcaster

the Podcaster is used by the teacher to deliver 'podcasts'. Students can easily download a series of audio recordings (via iTunes or similar software) to mp3 players such as an iPod.

Wimba Podcaster (Instructor's View)

Creating podcast messages

An audio recording on a Wimba Podcaster is known as a message. It can also include some text. To create a message click on 'New'. This will open the Compose window:

Wimba Compose Message window

Give your Message a subject (required). You can also type an optional message in the space below.
To record a message, in the compose or reply window click the record button and speak into your microphone / headset.
Click stop when you have finished recording.
You can review your recording by clicking play
- If you are not happy with the recording you can click record and re-record over your original recording
When you are satisfied with your recording click 'Send' to send your message to the board.

Setup Wizard

The Voice Boards and Podcaster tools include a link to the Setup Wizard below the tools. The wizard takes the user through a check list of tests to ensure the computer is correctly setup to use Wimba.

Wimba Setup Wizard

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