Student Tutorials
Instructors, consider adding relevant videos below to your OWL site or sharing the link in response to Frequently Asked Questions. Consider which tools may be newest to students, and provide links or embedded video tutorials to provide help before where needed. These videos are collected from instructors across campus, but are broadly applicable to all programs.
Top Student Tutorials
- Up and Running with VoiceThread (12 minutes) - Western University, Education. In this video, Devan Vanden Boomen shares how to upload a Powerpoint presentation, record an accompanying audio track, and share it with members of the course.
- Getting Started With VoiceThread (PDF) - Nicole Campbell from BMSc has also created a step-by-step PDF guide for students
- Building a Group Presentation in Voice Thread (10 minutes) -Western University, Education. In this video, Devan Vanden Boomen shares how to set up and contribute to a group presentation using VoiceThread.
- Recording a Powerpoint lecture right in Powerpoint (4 minutes)
- How do I participate in forum discussions?
- How do I upload a video to OWL?
- Learn OWL (From Faculty of Education). Short how to guides on this site include:
- How do I submit an assignment?
- How do I post in Forum discussions?
- How do I upload an item to Dropbox?
- How do I upload a video to OWL?
- How do I view an Announcement in OWL?
- How do I check OWL Messages?
- How do I use Collaborate?
- FAQs
