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About

Wimba Voice Tools offer web-based audio collaboration features for the site participants, such as online discussion forums with audio, presentations of web content with voice narration, or podcast delivery.

Wimba Voice Tools are now integrated into the Moodle CMS, therefore you may add 3 activities and one block to your site:

• Voice Board - allows to post and listen to the voice messages within threaded discussion boards (live example)
• Voice Presentation - allows instructors to post web content with an associated recording. Students can then post audio comments
• Podcaster - allows to create or upload podcasts for user subscription
• Voice Recorder block - allows to record announcements and put them on the site homepage

Technical requirements

Set-up wizard

• Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98SE or MAC OS 10.2+
• 256 MB Memory
• Macromedia Flash Player (download)
• Java v.1.4.x* (download)
• Sound card
• Speakers and microphone
• AOL or Opera browsers are not supported

Note: You may experience problems with Internet Explorer if you will try to add a new Wimba Activity to your site (but not when you will be using the existing one). Please use Firefox instead to add new activities. We are working on resolving this issue.

Add Wimba Voice tool (Board, Presentation or Podcaster)

The first time you add a Voice Tool Activity Module, you will be prompted to create a Voice Tool. When adding subsequent Voice Tool Activity Modules, you may either link to an existing Voice Tool, or create a new one.

1. Go to your site homepage
2. Click the Turn editing on button
3. From the Add an activity drop-down menu select Wimba Voice Tool

• First time only: A prompt will appear, displaying the words: "Welcome to Wimba Voice Tools! There are no Voice Tools associated with this course. Click OK to create one."

4. Click the New button (located to the right of the Associated Voice Tools drop-down menu)

5. The screen will refresh and display the New Wimba Voice Tool menu . On this screen:

• Choose to create either a New Board, New Presentation, or New Podcaster.
• Complete requested information.
• Click Create button.

6. The screen will refresh and you will be returned to the Adding a new Wimba Voice Tool page. On this screen:

• Enter a title for the tool link in the Name field
• Select Week or Topic for this activity
• Choose the voice tool to which you wish to link within the Associated Voice Tools drop-down menu. Note: If you just created a new Voice Tool, this menu will be pre-populated with that tool and need not be modified.
• Select Show or Hide
• Click the Create button.

7. The Voice Tool will launch in a pop-up window. A permanent link will appear within the appropriate Topic or Week on the site homepage.

Add Voice Recorder Block

1. Go to your site homepage
2. Click the Turn editing on button
3. Select Voice Recorder from the Blocks block in the lower right corner
4. The Voice Recorder Block will appear, and an applet will load, displaying audio controls:
   • Record (circle icon)
   • Pause (two bars icon)
   • Stop (square icon)
   • Play (triangle icon)
5. If you wish to change the title or description:
   • Click the Edit link
   • Enter an announcement in the top box and type optional description in the box below the title
   • Click the Save link (or click anywhere outside the Voice Recorder applet)

Warning: If you add this block to the site homepage and your computer does not meet Wimba technical requirements, your Moodle site can become unresponsive.

Additional information

• Tutorials from Wimba: http://www.wimba.com/support/docs/MoodleModule31_User.pdf