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title: "Adding VoiceThread Assignment"
type: "article"
space: "Blackboard Ultra"
author: "Anh Lam"
created: 2024-09-10T19:55:07Z
updated: 2024-09-10T20:28:10Z
tags: ["big-blue-button", "blackboard-ultra", "creating-content", "teaching-and-learning", "teaching-and-learning-centre", "tool-link", "tools", "ultra", "voicethread"]
url: "https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/266/blackboard-ultra/articles/assessing-learning/21041/adding-voicethread-assignment"
---

# Adding VoiceThread Assignment

VoiceThread is an approved and licensed tool at Seneca.

Create a graded assignment for students to complete. You can require them to create a VoiceThread of their own to submit, to comment on a VoiceThread you’ve created, or simply to watch a VoiceThread start to finish.

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To access the "Assignment Builder" option, follow the steps below.

1. You have to create the VoiceThread assignment link first by selecting the **Plus Icon** and select **Content Market**.

    ![Locating the Content Market from Course Content Area](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/attachment?file=aUA5zvK5GqmNsv1oy4JBXg%3D%3D)
2. Scroll down the "Content Market" page and locate "VoiceThread" from the menu.

    ![Locate voicethread from the content market items](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/attachment?file=MJ%2B8f3rd4iUgjFGuaUlGJQ%3D%3D)
3. Select the plus icon \(+\) and the VoiceThread assignment link will be created
4. Select the ellipsis to the right of the VoiceThread assignment link
5. Select **Edit**
![](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/attachment?file=6ptgU02wr%2FjvOFN9ST2iow%3D%3D)
6. The VoiceThread settings page displays - check off "Create gradebook entry for this item" and select **Save**.![](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/attachment?file=gyzEFPt1sPWyEfYew1ZMPw%3D%3D)
7. Select the VoiceThread assignment link now.
![](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/attachment?file=ByqmKG5NtGhN9c%2FV7qkjnQ%3D%3D)
8. The "Launch LTI Link" page displays - select "Launch" and the "VT Choose an activity type" will display.  The "Assignment Builder" option is now available.
![](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/attachment?file=4aKQedSEnRjyrZhTxP6qoA%3D%3D)

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