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Voice Email Exercises

Exercise - Set up an Asynchronous Conversation via Voice Email

  1. Create an Organizer Page for Course Communication
  2. Design a Voice Email called "Ask the Tutor"
  3. Detail in a sentence the importance of this Voice Email form as a private means to vocally send messages to the instructor outside of class time.
  4. Allow a max recording time of 3 minutes
  5. Make the To field invisible and pre-populated with your email address
  6. Send a test email
  7. Confirm receipt of the email
  8. Check out the archives and locate your message

Exercise - Create a language-based Voice Email activity

  1. Spend a few moments planning a Voice Email to use in your languages class.
  2. Maybe check out this Voice Email example.
  3. Create an Organiser Page in WebCT - you can place instructions, images, hyperlinks etc into the Upper Text area of this page.
  4. Now add a Voice Email to this page - set it up appropriately.

Course Menu Exercise - Make Voice Email the Preferred Method of Contact

  1. Create a new Voice Email
  2. Call the email and its link, "Email Tutor"
  3. Give the email a subject line of, "Voice Email from WebCT"
  4. Design this email form so messages come only to you, the Tutor.
  5. Type a message with instructions indicating that students are encouraged to send a message using both voice and text
  6. Make this email available from just the Course Menu